I'm going to the soda fountain, now that this is written
This was an odd weekend in the world of sports, as the two big events were a horse race (an exciting race at admittedly one of the coolest sporting venues in the country) and a boxing match (I'd rather have boxing than ultimate fighting, personally). What is this, 1950? Seriously! In any case, there were a few other things going on this weekend.
ITEM ONE: I went to the Twins game yesterday afternoonm a loss which capped a frustrating week. Michael Cuddyer's travelling sideshow on the basepaths resulted in a deep bruise on his back, and Joe Mauer was placed on the DL with a quad injury. Adding all that up, you end up with a lineup with Mike Redmond and Jeff Cirillo batting in the middle of the lineup. Ugh. We better hope our pitching staff starts throwing a heck of a lot of shutouts over the next few days. A few thoughts on the game yesterday: Sidney Ponson is a viable fifth starter. There, I said it.
The Red Sox are a few well placed injuries away from being the Twins right now. They have a somewhat sketchy rotation (Julian Tavares?!), rely heavily on the middle of their order and have a slew of contact hitters in the infield. By the way, Dustin Pedroia hits well in the Dome and is a scrappy infielder. It's like he's Nick Punto.
The Sox have a bullpen with some funky deliveries. They were warming up guys like Brendan Donnelly since he wasn't used at all in the series, and Hideki Okajima pitched (heralded by Led Zeppelin's "Immagrant Song". Innapropriate? Yes. Funny? Yes.) the 8th. Jonathan Papelbon, however, has one of the most beautiful wind ups I've ever seen.
ITEM TWO: The Sabres and the Ducks have advanced in their playoff series. I'm officially pulling for the Sabres, in case you cared. I like their chances too, as they are young and healthy, while having played good team hockey all year. The Ducks have been so thoroughly smoking their opponents that they too are very fresh for the Western Conference finals. Ducks and Sabres, Anaheim and Buffalo. Thats my pick, a matchup for the ages, clearly.
ITEM THREE: The Villager decided not to send an issue this way, but it's all right, since nothing happened. Let me instead discuss television for a moment. What exactly is CBS doing? They've eliminated solid characters on two new shows in Jericho and Shark, which seems counterintuitive, and they are dabbling with some major changes on the original CSI (rather than the one that sucks (Miami) or the one that adequately fills its time slot (New York)). It's like they are getting cocky over there at CBS, trying to demonstrate that nothing can stop them. Well, CBS, knock it off. And put something to tide me over on Sunday, since the Amazing Race is over for the season. Thanks.
And thank you, dear reader. Until we meet again
ITEM ONE: I went to the Twins game yesterday afternoonm a loss which capped a frustrating week. Michael Cuddyer's travelling sideshow on the basepaths resulted in a deep bruise on his back, and Joe Mauer was placed on the DL with a quad injury. Adding all that up, you end up with a lineup with Mike Redmond and Jeff Cirillo batting in the middle of the lineup. Ugh. We better hope our pitching staff starts throwing a heck of a lot of shutouts over the next few days. A few thoughts on the game yesterday: Sidney Ponson is a viable fifth starter. There, I said it.
The Red Sox are a few well placed injuries away from being the Twins right now. They have a somewhat sketchy rotation (Julian Tavares?!), rely heavily on the middle of their order and have a slew of contact hitters in the infield. By the way, Dustin Pedroia hits well in the Dome and is a scrappy infielder. It's like he's Nick Punto.
The Sox have a bullpen with some funky deliveries. They were warming up guys like Brendan Donnelly since he wasn't used at all in the series, and Hideki Okajima pitched (heralded by Led Zeppelin's "Immagrant Song". Innapropriate? Yes. Funny? Yes.) the 8th. Jonathan Papelbon, however, has one of the most beautiful wind ups I've ever seen.
ITEM TWO: The Sabres and the Ducks have advanced in their playoff series. I'm officially pulling for the Sabres, in case you cared. I like their chances too, as they are young and healthy, while having played good team hockey all year. The Ducks have been so thoroughly smoking their opponents that they too are very fresh for the Western Conference finals. Ducks and Sabres, Anaheim and Buffalo. Thats my pick, a matchup for the ages, clearly.
ITEM THREE: The Villager decided not to send an issue this way, but it's all right, since nothing happened. Let me instead discuss television for a moment. What exactly is CBS doing? They've eliminated solid characters on two new shows in Jericho and Shark, which seems counterintuitive, and they are dabbling with some major changes on the original CSI (rather than the one that sucks (Miami) or the one that adequately fills its time slot (New York)). It's like they are getting cocky over there at CBS, trying to demonstrate that nothing can stop them. Well, CBS, knock it off. And put something to tide me over on Sunday, since the Amazing Race is over for the season. Thanks.
And thank you, dear reader. Until we meet again
posted by Ryan | 3:55 PM
1 Comments:
I missed Sunday afternoon's Twins game. My dad said it was quite impressive though, as he had my ticket.
I have no opinion of the NHL now that Gabby and Mikko Koivu aren't playing. Shallow? Yes.
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