CC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure I put enough exclamation marks down. CC Sabathia is going to be a Yankee, according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post. They'll need to dot the i's and cross the t's but if Sherman's correct, the long national nightmare is over. And to Mike Francesa, who was adamant on Monday about how CC was playing the Yankees and didn't want to come; I'm deeply ashamed to call you a fellow Yankees fan. I listened to you yesterday (today, who knows?, it's 5 in the morning) and was flabbergasted. You, sir, are an idiot. Let's see you backtrack later today. Happy days are here again. Now go get Sheets!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12102008/sports/yankees/yanks_close_in_on_sabathia_deal_143481.htm

Sean Avery Article

http://nhl.fanhouse.com/2008/12/04/one-fans-vulgar-confrontation-with-sean-avery

Just scroll down and read what he said to the fan.

Do you think Plax has seen this?

A video of a policeman doing a demonstration on gun safety in front of a class of students that goes horribly awry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj4yUpR1PB0

All the Giants have to do is avoid shooting themselves in the foot...ohh wait.

All I'll say is this, at least Tank Johnson was a man who knew how to handle his firearm, if not properly conceal it. C'mon Plax, you were a third round pick on one of my fantasy teams slated to be my no#1 wideout. Now you impale your own thigh fumbling around in your pocket at a nightclub. 

Shame.

Safeties of the N.F.L. variety apparently aren't the ones that cause you the most trouble. 

As for Antonio Pierce and Derrick Ward, remember in public school, because some of us on the show wore polo shirts to private school everyday like pussies, myself not included, when the policeman came in and warned everyone about the dangers or drugs and hanging out with a bad crowd? If I'm Roger Goodell I would make every NFL player who commits a crime and or drug offense redo the DARE program.

And I would give Plax a coupon for a free game of paintball. Clearly he could use the practice.

Big Blue Domination

We have exceeded unchartered waters with the New York "football" Giants. At the moment, most Big Blue fans are in state of complete shock and amazement at the season the team is having the year after unexpectedly winning the Super Bowl.

If you took a trip down memory lane, you could start after week two last season when the Giants defense had given up 80 points to the Cowboys and Packers, and resorted to avoiding the media's questions by blowing air horns in the locker room. This stunt was meant to deflect criticism of the team's awful defensive performance in its first two-games, and midway through Week 3, with the team trailing 17-3 against the Redskins, most Giants fans were resigned to the thought of a season without a first-round playoff loss, a mid-season firing of coach Tom Coughlin and the dream of benching our quarterback Eli Manning. Most fans were ready to quit on defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, and could not wait for the season to end. But than a funny thing happened to this team. They started playing with an "Us against the World," mentality and went on to beat the Skins in that game with the famous defensive stop of Gibbs' Skins on the one-yard line for four straight plays.

Since that emotional victory, the Giants have gone 24-5 which includes their playoff victories last season, and their "loss" to the Patriots in week 17 of last season. They are doing what the last two unexpected Super Bowl Winners could not do; repeat. The 2001 New England Patriots were the unexpected AFC representative in the 2001 Super Bowl in Tom Brady's first full season. We all know the magic they displayed against the greatest show on turf and Vinatieri's kick could have propelled them the next season to greater heights, but instead they crashed back to earth (albeit for just one season) going 9-7.

The 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers were led to the Super Bowl with a superb running attack, stellar defensive play and the mistake-free execution of rookie quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. They went on the road and defeated the 3,2,and 1 seed in the AFC (all on the road) before dismantling the Seahawks in Super Bowl XL. Most figured Big Ben would be able to replicate the success they had in the playoffs with the core nucleus returning the next year. What transpired, though, was an 8-8 season with no playoff berth for Cowher's crew.

Why bring these two teams up as examples? They personify the difficulty level of repeating the next season the way the Giants have at the moment. Only twice in the past 18 years have teams posted a record of at least 10-1 the season after a Super Bowl Victory. The 2004-05 New England Patriots and the 1998-99 Denver Broncos, both of whom went on to repeat as Super Bowl Champions.

Not much is certain in today's NFL, and parody runs amuck week in and week out, but ths year one thing has remaine constant: Even with the losses of Strahan, Umenyiora, Wilson and Mitchell on the defensive side of the football, the Giants as a unit have had the depth and consistency to withstand these losses and are in a position to do what has been done just seven times prior; Repeat as NFL Super Bowl Champions.

Half Jewish Sports episode 10

We regret to inform you loyal listeners that our show today will not start until 4:30 today due to Production maintenance taking place at the station.

We will though spend the majority of the afternoon previewing the GW Basketball season, giving our final predictions and discussing the baseball hot-stove, the upcoming NFL week and finally some discussion of the NBA which we have not done yet this year.

We will be hearing from Steve "Herve" Hadley at 5:40 to give his final take on both the Men's and women's season as well as all other things GW basketball.

Please tune in at the SPECIAL TIME: 4:30 p.m. for a shortened version of Half Jewish Sports at gwradio.com