I find “ur-blogger” Bill Simmons interesting enough when he pokes his head out of the Red Sox’s collective ass cheeks to observe the greater sporting world. I don’t find this zenith of Boston sports with championships falling from the sky on an almost-yearly basis insufferable. Those sentences are inaccurate as of this afternoon. COME ON:

All in all, the Pats were whistled for a whopping 146 yards in penalties, a single-game record for the franchise. At one point, after a rarely-seen “blocking someone while they’re out of bounds” penalty on Willie Andrews, my dad called me just to say, “They’re calling things that I never even knew were penalties!!!” It’s one thing to have incompetent officiating for a football game; it’s another thing to see nearly every call and non-call benefit the same team. In 60 minutes of play, only one borderline call went against the Colts — a holding penalty on their second-to-last drive that erased a 25-yard Addai run. The final tally for the Colts: four penalties, 25 yards. We haven’t seen homefield advantage work that well since Hitler invaded Russia.

He actually suggests the NFL is fixing it’s own games to punish the Patriots for their videotaping transgressions early this season.

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U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (that be him above) is running for president and generating as much support as fellow lunatics John Brown, Leon Czolgosz and Timothy McVeigh. (Maybe it’s because he advocates a policy of retaliatory bombing against Muslim holy sites.) The Colorado Republican proposed a  bet with fellow candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney: if the Rockies win the World Series, Romney drops out of the race. If the Red Sox win, Tancredo drops out of the race.

 I speak for all when I say: Go Sox!