The Ryder Cup was amazing, but the rest of my weekend sucked.

My teams all lost from Friday through Sunday nights.

The Red Sox were blown out in the first game of their crucial series with the Yankees and then blew the Saturday afternoon game by walking the bases loaded and giving up a grand salami to Giancarlo Stanton in the eighth inning.

That’s okay because we still had the Sunday night game, and I was sure the Tar Heels would make me feel better by whipping Georgia Tech Saturday night. And the game started that way with Carolina blocking a punt and scoring in the first quarter on a special run by Sam Howell.

But, as we all know, none of that lasted as Georgia Tech all of a sudden became one of the most explosive and hard-hitting teams in the ACC in the shocking 23-point victory.

Their second Coastal Division loss effectively ended any hope of playing in the ACC title game, and now Mack Brown has to go back to his old saw of winning the state championship by beating Duke, Wake Forest and NC State over the rest of the season.

I figured the worm had to turn on Sunday when the Patriots took on the Saints in Foxboro. I had watched Jameis Winston during his first seven seasons in the NFL, and he was certainly no Drew Brees.

But the former FSU star was more than enough, as the Pats uncharacteristically turned the ball over and couldn’t protect their rookie quarterback Mac Jones from the Saints’ Who Dat defense.

I guess it’s a good thing that I kept my eye on the Americans and Ryder Cup all weekend, and they made us all proud with the largest point tally in the 90-plus year history of the biannual event.

So, my weekend, and probably a wild-card berth in the American League playoffs, rested on the final game of the Sox-Yankees series, and for the second straight night the Bombers bombed Boston with four runs in the eighth inning. Stanton hit his third home run in three nights and finished with 10 RBIs in a one-man demolition of the arch-rival.

I sure hope you had a better weekend.

(featured image: AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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