Monday Morning Observations

Some Monday Morning Observations:

You know it’s the political season because the battle of the roadway signs is well underway. You know how it works….a sign is placed in a highly-visible location for a candidate and then the opponents follow-up with their signs which are often put right in front to block out the originals. Then it goes back and forth and before you know it you have an intersection with 10 identical signs for two candidates. I guess esthetics is not very important to a lot of people.

Showing you how our sense of priorities is so far out of whack. Why is it that age is an issue when it comes to coaches but not politicians? Isn’t it kind of ridiculous that people feel that even if successful older coaches should step aside while life-long and aging politicians keep getting elected?

Does that mean we feel knowing what play to call is much more important than voting on things like budgets and wars?

I’ve been checking out some of the new prime-time TV shows and have come to the conclusion that “sex’ is the central theme in just about all of them.

There can’t be too many worse traffic spots than traveling south on Route 70
in Brick between the old Laurelton circle and Chambers Bridge Road. Either that or I just hit that area at the wrong time, every time.

If ever there was a year for a Shore Conference Football Tournament this would be it. There are a host of teams that can make legitimate claims to being #1 right now following Toms River North’s upset win over Middletown South this past weekend. It was only the second loss in a 54-game span for the Eagles over the last five seasons. Second-year Mariner head coach Chip LaBarca has put his team in position for a championship season although there are plenty of challenges left, including games with Southern and Toms River East.

Just wondering how many east coast baseball fans stayed up this weekend to watch playoff games which ended past 3AM and 1AM. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why ratings and interest often drops during the playoffs.