The Florida Masochist

Miami Dolphins prediction and some sports notes

The Dolphins are playing their game tonight rather than on Sunday. This is due to Hurricane Wilma. This is the team's first Friday night game in 22 years but one of a half dozen times in last 12 years that Miami has had to re-schedule a game due to weather.

My opinion is the short week will affect both teams equally. Miami is going to get thrashed also, my prediction Kansas City 34, Miami 14.

*- The game will be broadcast on television in Kansas City, Miami, West Palm Beach and Ft. Myers television markets. But as James Joyner and the Tampa Tribune notes, the game won't be on NFL Sunday ticket live tonight or broadcast in the Tampa or Orlando areas. The NFL really needs to re-vamp their television rules.

*- How pathetic is it when a team that traded away a 2nd round pick to get a player have to turn around barely a year later by giving away a 6th to get rid of the same player. That's what Miami did the other day to unload AJ Feeley. A 6th round pick and Feeley for a QB that's never played a down in the NFL and is not likely to do so this year either. Why not release Feeley out right or just keep him to the end of the year. Just another dumb personel(or pardon the pun a lemon.) decision by Miami, and it looks like nothing has changed but the names of management for this team.

*- Houston Astros vs Chicago White Sox in the World Series. Two very dissimilar ballparks in my old Strat-O-Matic days. A lefty homer park vs. a Righty homer park. Creative managing and lineup juggling would be needed.

But we're talking real-life not a board game. I pick the White Sox in 6.

*- The Golf tours are winding down. The LPGA is off this week after seeing Annika stomp the field last weekend. They play in South Korea a week from now, then Japan before coming back to the US for the final two weeks of the year. Four weeks to the ADT Championship here in West Palm Beach. I will be attending.

This weekend's PGA tour stop is in Orlando. Tiger Woods is playing but Hunter Haas is leading so far. So there will be golf for me to watch this weekend.

Bust

That describes the AJ Feeley era with the Miami Dolphins. The team traded the Quarterback today to San Diego for another 3rd string QB and an undisclosed draft pick. Its a certainty now- Miami flushed a valuable 2nd round pick down the toilet a year ago.

The Dolphins have traded A.J. Feeley to San Diego for fellow third-string quarterback Cleo Lemon and an undisclosed draft choice, a source said Tuesday.

Feeley was acquired by the Dolphins in the 2004 offseason from Philadelphia for a 2005 second-round draft choice in hopes he could become a full-time starter. Instead, Feeley never lived up to those expectations and ended up sharing playing time with Jay Fiedler for most of last season. Feeley then failed to best Gus Frerotte for a starting position during the 2005 preseason and was relegated to a third-string role behind Sage Rosenfels.

Lemon, 26, has served as San Diego's third-string quarterback for both of his two NFL seasons. A product of Arkansas State, the 6-2, 215-pound Lemon has never thrown a pass in an NFL game.