Continued from Sunday.
I skipped trying to watch the French Open to have lunch with my parents. That was probably more unpleasant than
listening to players grunting.
Maybe. At least I got fed. I may give tennis another shot next
weekend. I used to be a big tennis fan,
but things change. I had other plans for
the afternoon. After 22 films (?), I
finally saw a Marvel film in a
theater, Avengers: Endgame. Thankfully, I’d mostly seen enough of the
other films on TV and video to not be lost.
There’s no point in reviewing a film that I think everyone
else has seen. I’ll just forward on that
it was a magnificent achievement and fun to watch. It had tremendous action, a great sense of
humor (Thor stole the show), and I got genuinely choked up during Thor’s talk with
his mom and during Stark’s goodbye speech.
For over three hours I was entranced to the point that I didn’t need to
go to the bathroom over that time. Also,
I’d declined to purchase a $4 small soda and $3.75 small popcorn. I felt a bit bad that I’d gotten in free with
a pass, but not that bad. Not to
mention, I’d worked up a sweat walking over to the mall in the heat and
wind. I may have actually been
dehydrated.
I do understand why some reviewers have said that they
loved it, but that they’re done with the series. This is going to be very hard to top and
given what Marvel seems to have queued up, it might not be to my taste. Introducing time travel may also be problematic
in the future stories. Whatever comes,
we will always have this moment. (Until George Lucas changes it. Oh wait, that’s Star Wars. If only those
Disney dummies knew how to make a great film like the Marvel team. Hopefully, Disney doesn’t take over Marvel
and ruin their films.) [Yes, I’m making
a joke.]
I can’t say the same for the trailers before the
film. I felt my IQ dropping seeing
glimpses of these movies where things and stuff explode while big stars do cool
things around the explosions and stuff.
Awesome. The Fatzilla movie (him
and Thor should maybe mix in a salad) looked cool when it showed the giant
monsters. It looked really dumb whenever
the humans on screen. They said and did
nothing but dumb things. I may be seeing
this in the near future anyway. I am a
bit worried, but I still have movie passes, so at least I won’t pay for the potential
mistake.
After the movie, I’d noticed the stiff wind had picked
up and I wasn’t wearing a jacket. I
dallied in the mall. B&N did not
have the Time cover with Alex Morgan on it. (I hope there’s no fat chicks in bikinis
inside like her SI magazine this
month.) I was tempted to get dinner from
Auntie Anne’s, but they didn’t have
any pepperoni pretzels ready to go. I
blew home and was amazingly just in time to watch The Rally on Stadium. I don’t usually watch their evening sports
night preview show, but I did want to see cutie Kristen Balboni. I did enjoy
watching the baseball highlights, especially Kevin Kiermaier’s catch off the wall. I did not enjoy the peanut butter and jelly
sandwich on stale bread I was eating while watching, but not every meal can be
gourmet.
The Chihuahuas’
game started early this evening as it was going to be a double header with
yesterday’s rainout. They were in Fresno
playing the Grizzlies in a pair of
seven-inning games. As the crowd slowly
built up over the course of the game, they didn’t miss much. Both teams weren’t swinging it well as
pitching dominated. Tim Hagerty, on the radio call, was talking about the Padres early in Game 1. The parent club was playing in Yankee Stadium, the last team finally
visit the new park. Reliever Phil Maton, in the last series against
the Blue Jays, became the first NL
pitcher to get his first hit in an AL park.
(They’d lost their DH in the game and had to bat him.)
In the first, an obvious Griz foul ball was called a
home run. The umps gathered and
immediately corrected the call. The
batter was rounding the bases smiling, knowing it wasn’t going to stand
anyway. In the fifth, pups catcher, Francisco Mejia, tried to walk off
field after the second out and got jazzed by the fans there. In the sixth (remember this was scheduled for
seven innings), the Chihuahuas got their first hit. Tim had been worried they were about the
Chihuahuas getting no-hit for the first time.
They did have two base runners on early via errors.
The park was also taking donations for opposing player
walkup songs. Somebody had Old Town Road, which I’m assuming the
player or wife paid for. Others were not
so fortunate with It’s a Barbie World
and Baby Shark. Jacob
Scavuzzo came up to bat in the seventh with Toto’s Africa playing with two on.
He got a hit to drive in the first run of the game. 1-0 Chihuahuas. The Grizzlies’ starter came out at the same
time as the pups’ starter, Dillon
Overton, was pinch hit for.
Unfortunately, the Griz tied it in the bottom to send it
to extras. In the eighth, the Chihuahuas
got the rule wrong on the automatic runner and lost their pitcher. Tim caught it immediately. Mejia sac’d in a run to make it 2-1, but a
pair of Grizz sacrifices drove in another tying run in the bottom. Scavuzzo led off the ninth with a hit to
drive in the automatic runner to the make 3-2. The Griz got two on with two out in the
bottom, but the pups hung on to win it.
During Game 1 of the baseball game, the big sports event
of the day started with the Blues
playing the Bruins for the Stanley Cup. I was looking forward to the game, but I
ended up breaking my rule about watching hockey: if you’re going to watch
hockey, you have to concentrate to get anything out of it. But . . . those little party girls on Chic Music are sooooo cute. So, I’m listening to baseball and flipping
channels during the match. My dad seemed
interested the Blues doing well (being from Missouri) and so was I, so I have a
favorite hockey team for the moment.
The Blues got it started about halfway through the first
period with a goal off the crossbar. The
teams were a bit tight to start as both actually tried passing the puck to a
referee. The Bruins got a power play
late after a tripping call. They hit the
post on one shot and had a good look on another. They got another power play right after on a
hooking call. There was a wide open net
for one shot, but the player couldn’t handle the pass. (Yeah, I’m not naming players like a bad
sports report. It’s amazing I got down
any notes.)
The Blues scored early in the second period and I missed
it. The Bruins came back to make it 2-1
and then tied it. About five minutes
left in the period, there was a dogpile at the Blues’ net and two players were
put in the box for fighting. In the
third, the Bruins poked one in to make it 3-2.
The game got chippie. A Bruin
player got his helmet pulled off in a virtual noogie. He came back and made a flying check on the
offending Blues player. Sticks were
breaking. Running fist fights were going
up and down the ice. It was hockey at
its finest. The Bruins got an
empty-netter with under two minutes left.
4-2 Bruins was the Game 1
final, though there was a scrum at their net at 0.00 on the clock.
I missed the Rangers
playing the Mariners on the
radio. I couldn’t get it to come in
during the break between the double header games. The Rangers lost 6-2 anyway. For Game 2 of
the Chihuahuas’ double header, the Grizzlies came out wearing red pants. I’m sure that looked great. Matthew
Batten homered in the second for the pups.
Jason Vosler also drove in a
run and Boog Powell bunted in a run
to make it 3-0.
In the sixth, three Chihuahuas walked, but an infield
popup ended the inning. There were train
noises going on all through the game. In
this inning, there was also what sounded like a car drag race going on outside
the stadium. The Griz got a solo homer
to make it 3-1 in the bottom. The pups
added on with a sacrifice to make it 4-1 in the seventh. There was then a near inside-the-park home
run, but it was ruled a ground rule double as the ball got lodged under the
outfield wall. Vosler got a two-run
homer to drive in the run anyway. The Chihuahuas won 6-1 to sweep the
DH. Hey, somebody I was rooting for won
this weekend!
Lastly, I saw some of The Red Pill documentary by Cassie
Jaye on TBD. It was interesting, though I don’t entirely
feel the need for a Men’s rights organization.
The documentary did make good points for equality on certain
issues. I doubt women want equality,
because that would be a step down for their gender’s superior status in
society.
My favorite moment of this sports celebration
weekend? I’m going to have to be
heretical here and say it was Avengers: Endgame. Indy
was great at the end, but Avengers actually made me tear up. Beyond that, well crap, Aggie Baseball got eliminated from the WAC Tournament, and just about every other team I was rooting for
lost. I kind of wish I’d just focused on
a few select events, instead trying to watch or listen to everything. This is actually the first time I’ve felt
like this, since I mostly enjoy the chaos.
With this, I am going on hiatus for writing sports for a
bit. I’m burned out from all the Aggie
sports writing and doing other sports at the same time. I’ve been staying late at work to write and
the quality of my writing just keeps going down. I do plan on picking it up again in the near
future (perhaps sooner than I think), but I need to rethink how I do this. I’ve got a stack of stuff to read that I
haven’t touched in months. Also, I’ve
been working on an RPG project since the beginning of last year. It’s been hard, but I’m almost done. It’s been incredibly frustrating to be so
close finishing, but only having a day or so to work on it between sports
writing and then being mentally exhausted when I’ve been doing it. I will hopefully be posting this project soon.
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