Some random effluvia from the weekend that was

-For whatever reason, one of the big issues with the 49ers right now is Mike Nolan. Not his coaching ability (though that is now open to debate) but for his sartorial splendor. After the break, Nolan decided to switch things not by changing much in the way of schemes but by growing a goatee, something every Star Trek fan knows, is a sure sign that he's turned evil. Then there's the suits that he keeps on sporting, all of which gives him the appearance that he is trying to show the world that he is, in effect, hot sh--. The thing is that it's easy to look like you're hot sh-- when your team is winning but a little silly to look like you're hot sh-- when you're team is fast falling on the suck-o-meter. We, of course, think this is all silly considering that the biggest badass in the NFL, Bill Belichik, dresses like he just rolled out bed after recovering from the previous night's bender, but at this point, it's much more to discuss that than the mess that is the, quote, unquote “offense”.

-The big play in Sunday's Raiders game was Kiffin deciding to go for it on a 4th and 1 situation on the Chief's 17 yard line with six minutes left in the second quarter. Kiffin, going against just about every rule out there, decided not to kick the field goal. The Raiders didn't make the play and wound up losing by two points. Obviously, if they kicked the field goal instead, the Raiders might have won the game as they lost by only one point (you can never know for sure because since every action causes a reaction, we have no idea what reaction the field goal would have caused-- it could have stopped Global Warming for all we know and if so, maybe he should have kicked the field goal?). We're kind of going with Kiffin here as once again, we're impressed by his cojones-- just call him "Long Balls Lane." This is football, gosh darnit-- the entire point of the game is to make a fourth and one. If you cannot do that, you don’t really deserve to win.

Our thoughs on the World Series after the jump

-We said this earlier but we're really not rooting for any team in the Series. We hate the Red Sox and everything that comes with it, that whole Sox Nation thing. Yeah, once they were kind of a cute underdog team and we got into the legend of the Curse but now they're just another smug franchise-- the Yankees Jr. The thought of the Sox winning it, along with the Patriots looking looking scary good right now, fills us with dread at all the crowing all the New Englanders in our fair city will be doing.

As for the Rocks, they have the worst unis in baseball (the alternate, black jerseys-- their home whites are actually kind of cool but they never wear them), they love Jesus a bit too much, and we've seen way too many games at Coors field in which the Giants had the game in the bag only to see the Rockies suddenly rip off six runs in an inning to win the game. Besides, the Rockies have been nothing but a burr in the side of the Giants since they were just a wee little franchise. In '93, they lost every single game they played with the Braves and if they had just won one or two of those games, something pretty easy to do in baseball, the Giants would have gone to the playoffs. Then in '99 the Rockies rallied for seven runs, the last one, and the one that cost the Giants the game, coming on a leadoff home run by Goddamn Neifi Perez off Rob Nenn in the ninth, that made it so the Giants had to play the Cubs in that one game playoff. The Giants, of course, lost that game

One more thing about the Rockies-- they're good, damn good. So good you can pretty much write them in for first or second in the NL West for the next three or four years, and will be looking down at the standings at Your San Francisco Giants probably for the rest of the decade.