Thursday
Today’s Meal: For the last day of this vacation I’m just
having some more pasta and another Spam sandwich. I don’t feel like having a banquet. Tomorrow, I plan on trying a Five Guys Hot
Dog. Seems like a waste of time going to
a hamburger place for a hot dog, but I can’t resist trying one.
Baseball
After several minutes of tentative placements, I found a
spot to put the radio where I could get lousy, but audible, reception for the
morning Rangers game. Unfortunately, the
Twins starting pitcher is one of the slowest, and most inaccurate workers in
the league. The Rangers’ pitcher wasn’t
any better in that regard. Matt Hicks commented
on how they weren’t through the 3rd inning and they were an hour,
fifteen minutes into the broadcast. Need
I describe the torture combination of poor reception and slow-working pitchers?
Soria again in the 9th had a one run lead and had
to face that last two batters with one out.
The first batter jumped the first pitch and took it to the warning
track. The next batter also swung at the
first pitch and got a hit. For the next
batter, Soria dropped a sub-60mph curveball on him, as the batter almost came
out of his shoes swinging at it. Soria
would throw it again a couple of pitches later and ended the game with a
strikeout. Eric Nadel was absolutely in
awe of the pitches. Apparently the
umpire was too. His final strike call
was delayed a couple of seconds so he could admire it. Being interviewed afterward, Soria said he
knew it was a strike and that the ump had called it out immediately. Rangers 5-4 in a three hour, 40 minute, 9
inning game.
Meanwhile, dad told me that Prince Fielder was going to be
out for the season, recovering from surgery.
Maybe it’s better that he’s gone, rather than being in the lineup
everyday and disappointing.
The Aggie Baseball coaching story just suddenly got a little
more interesting. An assistant coach is
suing the team. He says he was harassed
and fired for claiming that team was doing drugs and drinking and driving. Scandal.
Perhaps there were reasons beyond the team’s record why the coach was
let go.
The big news about the team had nothing to do with their
game. Steve Kaplowitz, KROD program
director, on the local sportstalk show, spent at least half the broadcast
describing how he got a parking ticket at the stadium that morning. He even called out the ticketing officer by
name and shield number. In listening to
his story (too long to relate here), he would seem to have a legitimate
beef. It was not hard to figure out that
the city was going to have zealous enforcement of parking around the stadium. I’d hazard to say anyone parking at a meter
there is likely to eventually get a ticket, regardless if you paid for the spot
correctly.
Also during the show, I think someone else on staff said
“Diablos” instead of “Chihuahuas ,”
and got ridden for it. I’d say the name
change will be inevitable at some point in the team’s future. Kappy brought up his parking problems with
Tim before the game. In a show of
solidarity, Tim even brought it up during the game broadcast. Ah, Tim Haggerty, who became a beloved local
sportscaster about five minutes into his first broadcast.
Soccer
Watching the local TV news last night, I noticed the sports
segment featured a nice, long segment on the Mexican soccer match last
night. It was a “friendly” against Israel , so that
meant that it didn’t count for anything.
Why was this on a local American English-language TV sports report? When I say that this is an agenda, believe
me.
NBA
Speaking of agenda, this whole Donald Sterling/NBA thing is
really starting to just look like a publicity stunt to generate interest in the
playoffs. Look at the teams in the
conference finals. Unless you’re a
specific fan of any of the teams, do you really want to see any combination of
them in the finals? The NBA regular
season is pointless. You could ink in
half the playoff teams before the season starts, along with probably picking
three of the four finalists. The format
of the playoffs essentially ensures an inventible outcome to a long-drawn out
process. Regardless of the number near
upsets in the first round, none of them actually happened. There’s no “Cinderellas.” There’s been the usual complaints about the
officiating, but since betting doesn’t run the sport (like the NFL), it might
just be the league trying to gin up some additional controversy and extend
series.
Friday
Today’s Meal: Back to work today. Before going, I went back to 5 Guys to try
one of their hot dogs. While it wasn’t very
impressive looking, it packed a wallop.
Quite tasty and filling with a full load of fries.
NBA
Sorry, I couldn’t resist this little coda to an otherwise
disappointing Memorial Day vacation post series. My reception on the radio cleared up just in
time for me to not listen to any baseball games today. Poetic.
Meanwhile, the Clippers have been sold off for $2 Billion to former
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Not sure if
this means the team will be moved to Seattle
eventually. They should, they’ll always
be the Lakers JV team in L.A. Then again, somebody has to help pay that
rent on the Staples Center
So, Donald Sterling, who it’s been revealed to be dying of
cancer and has Alzheimer’s, who employed Black people for his team and paid
them 10’s of millions of dollars, has gotten what he had coming to him for
being a racist. For his initial $12
million purchase of the team, he was bought out for $2 Billion. That’ll teach him, that dying, forgetful
racist!
Jay Mohr, Fox sportstalk, wondered if there’s ever been a
bigger Return on Investment. Let’s see:
the Louisiana Purchase and the purchase of Alaska .
That’s about it. Meanwhile, Magic
Johnson is furiously trying to dig up some racism charges against the
Lakers. His scheme worked, just not the
anticipated final result; his ownership of the team. This time for sure. He just needs to scrape up about $5 Billion
to close the deal.
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