Dave, don't quit your day job.

Hockey season is here. Over the next few weeks, we'll begin to find out if the men can avenge last year's playoff loss at Cornell and qualify for Lake Placid. The women face an uphill battle to make up for last year's Frozen Four snub, with respective national teams claiming some of its best talent.

But the madness was fun, just not at midnight.

Ramblings

A subway series looks more and more likely each day. Major League Baseball certainly has its fingers crossed, salivating at the ratings a New York, New York World Series would generate. My question, though is how much will the rest of the country care about this match-up? Sure there might be some curiosity for an event that hasn't happened since 1956, but it is hard to see a seven-game series sustaining that interest. Most of the numerous fans who despise the Yankees will be almost equally repulsed by the Mets. Certainly those in Boston will.

For two weeks, the entire baseball universe will be centered in New York City. The rest of the country will not be amused.

But since when did the rest of the country get a vote as to something New York wanted to do?...

Returning to hockey for a moment, the NHL has been underway for about two weeks. It feels like the New Jersey Devils just won the Stanley Cup. For all of hockey's numerous virtues, it needs to reconsider the length of its regular season. The extended playoff format already renders most of the previous play irrelevant, so knocking off 10 games couldn't hurt. Of course, I would also like Commissioner Gary Bettman to knock off at least 5 teams. Sorry, Nashville....