Sergio Leone would have been proud.

It was a sports weekend filled with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

The Good:  Playing the role of Clint Eastwood, the Arizona Cardinals.  What is left to be said?  They’re 2-0 for the first time since I was a junior in college.  1991.  Over the last 10 games, they’ve scored 20 points or more in each of those games.  That’s the longest active streak in the NFL.  I don’t want to hear how all they’ve done is beat the teams they are supposed to.  It’s true but who cares.  Excuse the Cardinals fans for getting a little emotional about this.  When you are a Cardinal fan….you take what you can get.

The Bad:  Lee Van Cleef played Angel Eyes in the classic western.  My eyes hurt like hell after watching the Diamondbacks offense all weekend long.  17 men left on base.  It’s a number so big you practically choke on it.  It might be the worst offensive output I’ve ever seen the D-backs cough up and I’ve seen them get no-hit twice.  But at least with a no-hitter, you can “tip your cap” to the other pitcher.  When you leave 17 men on base all you can do is tip back a good stiff drink to help kill the pain of a team that went 1-27 with Runners in Scoring Position in the last two games against the Reds.  It has been stunning to watch this team collapse in the last two weeks.  If we were in New York or Chicago, national pundits would generate vast amounts of time ripping everybody in the organization for it.  Instead, in sleepy Arizona, we shrug and move on to football.  Oh and one last thing.  The Dunn Effect?  Prior to hitting the go ahead homer on Monday against the Giants, in his previous nine games - dating back to the start of the Dodgers series when the D-backs had a 1.5 game lead over L.A. - Dunn was hitting .194 with 3 RBI and by my count had left 19 men on base.  When they needed him the most his bat was nowhere to be found.

The Ugly:  UNLV?  Eli Wallach was never this ugly.  I was driving home from the D-backs game listening to Coach Erickson on the postgame show blaming himself for the loss.  Not having his guys ready, not focusing on the now.  Trapped by the trap game.  And he is absolutely right.  It is Erickson’s fault that they were looking ahead to Georgia while playing UNLV.  The Decision-Maker (code name for the wife) hates these “payday” games.  “So UNLV is there just to lose and get a check and they won?  Good for them,”  said the DM.  Now, all the potential fun of the ASU/Georgia game just got squished like a bug.  It was the Sun Devils worst loss at home since the infamous New Mexico St. game in 1999.  Which got me thinking.  For all of his faults, and they grew like weeds, Dirk Koetter never ever coached an ASU team that choked on the cupcake.