It is Baseball Season... Finally

It is Baseball Season... Finally

Sunday, April 12, 2009

I'm with you Mushnick

Last night, number one seed overall Boston University beat Miami Ohio in overtime to win the NCAA National Hockey Championship. I was not privileged enough to watch the game and I am very upset because it was one of the best games in all of sports since this past Superbowl. BU was down two goals with a minute left. Most hockey fan will tell you that the Terriers did not have a chance, but somehow some way, Zach Cohen scored with a little less than minute to go, and Nick Bonino equalized with 18 seconds left, electrifying anyone who was watching the game. Miami was not able to score with the time remaining in regulation and the game went into overtime. Then in the 12th minute, Colby Cohen entered ranks with Jason Arnott as he fired one off of a Miami defender that floated over the ice, eluded netminder Cody Reichard and made everyone who was watching jump out of their chairs sobbing either way, winners or losers. Sportscenter found a way to ruin it. After honoring the top-story respectfully, the newscasters told me that the game was uninteresting and not very dazzling. In its iconic top-ten of the week, the sports show excluded the equalizing one-timer and ranked the game-winner eighth. Oh but there must have been some unbelievable plays ahead of it, right? Some of which included 7th: an inside the park homerun, a great play, but very insignificant as it was in the first 5 baseball games of the season. 6: A fan caught a homerun ball with one hand. That will happen about 100 more times this year. 5: An around the back shootout goal. Sweet dude, the 50th one this year. 4: A diving catch by Alex Gonzalez, one of many more. 3: A high school volleyball play, save it for Home videos caught on tape. Then 2: Another diving catch which will top every top-ten until November. And the stellar number one play of the week, a middle school full court shot that didn't count. All of these topping two of the best, timely, and stunning goals of the hockey season. No play even in the last month or two could be ranked equal or better than the two goals that not only won BU the national championship, but immortalized the hockey team in this decade. Oh and by the way, with the win, head coach Jack Parker is now the all-time most winningest college coach, sitting atop a national championship. Get it right ESPN. Congrats Jack.

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