Day 65

Today's blog entry is going to be my best and worst of the year when it comes to sports and entertainment. Feel free to tell me if you agree or disagree in the comments section. This was figured out the old fashion way - if it I saw it or watched it and it came out or was shown in 2005, it qualifies. And now I present to you, TD's best and worst of 2005:

Movies: This was one of the worst years for movies in recent memory. I literally had to scrape to get to these.

Best Comedy: "Wedding Crashers" - I did find this movie hilarious at times and did quite a bit of laughing out loud, but it was about 15 minutes too long and the whole Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn being his same character recipe is getting stale. We just got The 40 year old Virgin and haven't seen it yet. It is earmarked for the plane ride to Arizona.

Best Drama: "Cinderella Man" - I really enjoyed this underdog story of fighter Jim Braddock. It also re-assured me of two things. One - Russell Crowe may be a pompous a-hole, but he is one hell of a lead actor. Two - Renee Zellweger gets increasingly annoying in every movies she puts out.

Worst Movie: "Jarhead" - I want to personally write a letter to the the producers, writers, directors, and Jake Gylenhaal and ask for my $10 bucks and that hour and a half of my life back.


Most Overrated: "Crash" - Was there anything worse than Oprah stroking this movie to no end and the "what was your Crash moment" resets for like 4 months afterwards? It was good, not great.

Most Underrated: "Hitch" - This Will Smith flick kind of flew under the radar but was very funny. Kevin James was the perfect guy to play the down on his luck, unstylish loser who is transformed by Smith's smooth character, Alex Hitchins.

TV: People who know me say that I watch way too much TV. You won't hear me argue that. Tivo is the greatest invention since the Internet. Most shows are watched early Saturday or Sunday mornings after the dog wakes me up.

Best TV Show, Comedy: "Entourage" - This is fastly becoming one of my favorite shows of all time with Dallas, Seinfeld, and the Sopranos. There is never a bad episode. Turtle and Drama are hysterical and Ari is the perfect side compliment to the crew. Plus they had a ton of great cameos this season including James Cameron, Mandy Moore, Ralph Macchio and the best of all, Bob Saget as himself smoking weed and having a "house account" at a brothel.

Best TV Show, Drama: "Grey's Anatomy" - Readers of this blog know what a fan of this show I am. Well scripted and extremely well acted. Patrick Dempsey has to win the comeback of the year award. He has come a long way since Ronald Miller and Randy the pizza delivery boy.

Worst TV Show, Comedy: "The Comeback" - I couldn't get through 5 minutes of this unintelligible garbage. Lisa Kudrow wasn't funny as Phoebe and she still isn't funny.

Worst TV Show, Drama: "desperate Housewives" - Some may say this should fall in the most overrated category, but to me, it is flat out bad. The first season I watched and thought it was ok, didn't understand what the buzz was all about. But this season, I watched two episodes and said I am done. It tries to be funny and isn't and the story lines are about as stale as a 4 year old Davis bakery rye. The only saving grace is that Eva Longoria is smokin hot.

Most Underrated: "Weeds" - This Showtime original series about a late 30's widow (played by Mary Louise Parker) who becomes a suburban pot dealer is pure genius. Elizabeth Perkins is also great as a neurotic mother who finds out she has breast cancer and changes her entire life existence.

Most Overrated: "Lost" - Another show that I tried to get into and just couldn't. From what I understand, the second season has been a major disappointment.

Best Reality Show: The Amazing Race, Season 7 - This was a tough call. Race narrowly beats out Laguna Beach, Survivor: Guatemala, and Big Brother. The end of the 2004 season finished in February, so it counts. Great villains in this show including the most reviled man in Race history, the verbally abusive Jonathan and his wife Victoria. The challenges and the racing throughout the world always have me on the edge of my seat. This was a Bobby D favorite.

Worst Reality Show: Real World, Austin - In a landslide. This show has just begun to wear on me. I am officially done with Real World's after this show. These people are all mentally disturbed. Especially Nehamiah, the resident angry black man. It had potential as the season started with Melinda, the hot, sexual explicit one. But she was all talk and no action and immediately started dating her roommate Danny. That essentially killed the season.

Most Underrated: Breaking Bonaduce - The first half of the season was appointment TV. Danny Bonaduce is seriously one of the craziest people I have ever see on TV.

Most Overrated: American Idol - talk about old bits.

Sports - Again, some say I watch too many sporting events (i.e. Leah), and again, they are right. But when you need a question answered about sports, I am your man.

Game of the Year: USC 34 Notre Dame 31 - I didn't see this entire game because I had to leave for a wedding, but it is hard to argue that any game had more drama. USC's 30 plus game winning streak on the line, the 4th and 11 completion from Matt Leinhart to Dwayne Jarrett that saved the season. The game winning TD on the last play of the game. Others receiving consideration include Gonzaga's triple OT win against Michigan State at the Maui Invitational in college hoops, The White Sox 7-6 win in game 2 of the World Series with the Konerko Grand Slam and the Podsednik Walkoff HR.

Team of The Year: The Chicago White Sox - As much as it pains me to write this, they led from wire to wire and thoroughly dominated the playoffs. The dismantled my Indians in their quest for the playoffs the last week of the season. All year I kept saying they were lucky, and they were. But I'd rather be lucky than good. I give credit where credit is due.

Performance of the year, single game: Reggie Bush, RB USC vs. Fresno State - I have never seen a player dominate in a single game in his sport since Michael Jordan. I watched the Fresno State/USC game in which he had 295 yards rushing and everytime he touched the ball he seemed to run for 50 yards. But it wasn't just the pure speed, it was the cutbacks. This guy is a once in a lifetime special talent.

Goat of the Year: Donald Fehr, chief council for the baseball players union - This guy has been at the forefront of the strongest union in sports and to me, is part of the downfall of the game. He had every opportunity to help the cause of cleaning baseball of performance enhancing drugs and he kept dragging his feet until Congress eventually called him to the carpet.

Tribe Moment of the Year: Travis Hafner's 4 HR 9 RBI doubleheader against Detroit - I basically watched the Tribe every night and I happened to be in Arizona for these two games. The day portion on the double dip was on ESPN also I caught it. The man was hotter than baked clams. Love my guy Pronk. Too bad Manager Eric Wedge sat him the next day. A close second was the 9 run 9th inning in Kansas City when Jeff Liefer's popout was dropped in left causing the comeback of epic propotions to be complete.

Kansas Basketball Moment of the Year: Keith Langford's buzzer beater against Georgia Tech on New Year's Day - Keith's career peaked during his sophomore year as a complimentary part to Nick Collison and Kirk Hinrich. The team severely underachived last season behind the 4 seniors, but Keith was the king of disappearing the whole game and then showing up at the end when we needed him. A close second was Wayne Simien's 28 and 15 performance against Oklahoma State where he would not let us lose.

Browns Moment of the Year: Reuben Droughns dominating performance against Miami in a Browns 22-0 win - Droughns had 166 yards and a TD including a 75 yard punishing run through the Miami defense. Droughns became the first Brown since 1985 to be a 1000 yard rusher.

Cavaliers Moment of the Year: Lebron James's three point outburst against The Hornets - In a dominating performance, Lebron hit 6 of 7 three's, including 5 straight in the 109-87 win. Lebron finished with 31 points.