Has it been 23 years already?
Posted on May 3, 2008 - Filed Under Sports
I guess this means I’m officially a free agent for a new favorite baseball player.
Too bad there really don’t seem to be many to choose from anymore…
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Sports of all sorts
Posted on April 13, 2008 - Filed Under Golf, Sports
Shhhhh! I’m going to let you in on a little secret.
Contrary to what ESPN and Jim Nantz may have led you to believe, Tiger Woods wasn’t actually leading The Masters. As he continues to par his way to something other than what he needed to do (read: shoot 65 and hope no one else in front of him broke par), it’s going to be enjoyable to watch a handful of guys out there with no major (or Major) wins to their credit trying to bring it home. Kind of like in 2004 when Els and Mickleson traded blows down the back nine. As much as I’m not a fan of Tiger Woods, I’m a huge fan of seeing some unheralded players battle for an ugly coat.
That said, I likely just jinxed the field and Woods will be taking another green jacket to the dry cleaners.
Congrats to Jerry York, who coached his third team to the NCAA hockey title. While I’m not a huge fan of anything Boston College, it was good to see Notre Dame lose, and even better to see Coach York get the win. He fought back from cancer in recent years, and will forever be remembered to me as the coach at BG during my college years, and also the architect of the 1984 National Championship team.
Congrats!
Posted on April 11, 2008 - Filed Under Daily Grind
Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Pepperguy!!!
And to celebrate…. KANGAROO FIGHT!!!
Fore!
Posted on April 7, 2008 - Filed Under Golf, Carolina Hurricanes
In true playoff fashion, I was debating the starting of a “playoff beard” (having just shaved one clean) for the Hurricanes run to the Cup. Unfortunately, they couldn’t stop running it down their leg, so in even more true Hurricanes playoff fashion, I played golf yesterday, the day after they were knocked out of the top spot in the Southeast and thus out of the playoffs.
Shot a 98. Not horrible, not entirely pretty, but for the first time out, it was a good day.
For the record, that makes two records of futility for “my teams” this year. BGSU suffered the worst bowl defeat in college football history and now Carolina is the first team ever to miss the playoffs in consecutive years after winning the Stanley Cup. (Though I don’t remember Tampa Bay making the playoffs the year after the lockout… Hmmm.) Anyway, this means the Rangers have about 28 games left to win before October to avoid a similar fate.
Using the whole fist, doc?
Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under Carolina Hurricanes
Well then.
That was less than pleasant.
Fortunately, I’ll have some basketball to keep me from obsessing over scoreboard watching the Washington-Florida game and plenty of beer at hand if the need arises tomorrow night.
Game on
Posted on April 1, 2008 - Filed Under Sports
It’s all the excitement of playoff hockey, without the fanfare of the playoffs. Especially for a team that was reserving tee times in mid-January last year.
Carolina enters the night with a two-point lead on Washington in the standings with three (actually 2 1/3) games left. They’re facing off right now. It’s like Game 5 with a 3-1 lead for the ‘Canes. Win and the Southeast Division and the #3 playoff seed that goes with it is theirs. Lose, and they can still clinch with one more win in their last two, but it’s no certainty.
It’s a lot like the Cup Final when Carolina won it all two years ago. A commanding lead going into Game 5, a game they blow on a bad turnover in overtime, followed by a clock-cleaning in Edmonton in Game 6, but fortunately followed up with a 3-1 win in Game 7 and jocularity ensued.
Even better for those of us that live outside the reach of Fox Sports South, the Canes cable network, they “couldn’t work a deal”, so Versus is showing non-playoff-bound St. Louis against not-yet-playoff-eligible Nashville.
Oh joy.
On the brightside, the fact that the game isn’t on TV is helping me get some work done and not sit through what is now a 3-1 deficit with 10 minutes and change remaining.
My bad.
Posted on March 19, 2008 - Filed Under The Geek Side
I really need to write more.
It’s kind of messed up, ’cause I’ve got stuff to say, I just don’t. Thoughts cross my mind all the time, but don’t get any love here. I should work on that.
The geek in me is kinda psyched for the imminent arrival of WordPress 2.5, but the more it looks like things have changed, the more they look to be staying the same. Regardless, I may mess with the design here a bit just to freshen things up and make them all kinds of compatible.
Or maybe I’ll just post again in May.
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