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Okay, I have to admit. I've been hiding out in a terrible, terrible New England sports slump. The Patriots were playing atrociously as were the Celtics. The Colts finally got the monkey off their back, but that was no surprise. Peyton came in with all guns firing and completely demolished the Pats. And the Celtics...won two of their first four or five games? We lost to the Bobcats? Hello!!! What's that about? Losing to the Spurs by twenty points is no big surprise. I knew we were going to get our butts handed to us on a platter. The only real surprise was that game against the Pistons that we should have won. I know people were saying that we shouldn't hang our heads, that we played a helluva game. That may be true, but when you don't get the W at the end to go with it, it don't mean much in the standings. And you can second guess coaches until the cows come home and I may never know why they didn't cover the inbound pass with 8/10ths of a second left on the clock. I just about kicked my TV over when I saw Rip Hamilton catch the pass after a double screen and drop the ball in...nothing but net. Well, we spanked the Knicks in OT on our opener and we spanked the Rockets tonight. Hopefully we can keep some of our momentum from tonight and bring home a win Tuesday night when we rematch with the Pistons again. Beyond that, the Patriots played a pretty good game this afternoon, despite Miami playing great ball. Bruschi made some serious big time plays like the old days and our defense actually did a pretty good job, not to mention Brady connecting with my fave Troy Brown. And what about the new kid...#44? Wow...he's got potential. I can't tell you how happy I am to see this kid when we got Cory Dillon nursing injury, Kevin Faulk out, Matt Light out...we got no good runners, or at least we didn't until tonight. So, bottom line...I'm still grumpy and nervous as hell, but I'm seeing a glimmer of hope in New England.