Two servings for Monday night

As though The Empire wasn't nervous enough...

Monday, October 10th, 2005, for the time being we'll call it stress city. By Tuesday it may have a more explicit or exciting title. The Stillers will be in San Diego for MNF battling to come back from a stultifying loss to the New England PrettyBoys and the Janks will be at Angels stadium in Anaheim fighting to advance to yet another ALCS. The Empire may, in fact, have a total schizo breakdown.

And this is what professional sports is all about. Sure all those cleverly written and scored commercials for Gatorade and the NFL Network may talk about glory or bringing "it" but sports, for the fan at least isn't about any of that. It's about complete and utter channel flipping madness. The fan is tense. The fan is loud. The fan is emotional, irrational, impulsive, and most of all greedy. We want it all! But what happens when we get it all. Four teams, two sports, two HUGE games (at least from the fans' perspective.) There are times when picture-in-picture cannot be given a price tag. The Empire sure wishes it's Toshiba had it. Sheesh!

Frankly, we're out of ideas on how to handle this situation. We're more than open to suggestions. Which channel do we start on? Which color scheme do we wear to work? Who are we tomorrow, Black and Gold or Pinstripes? It's completely insane. But we'll get through it. We'll survive because, let's be honest, we've seen worse situations.

All we can truly hope for are two wins and a modicum, the sheer resemblance, of acumen.