The Major League Baseball playoffs started yesterday but I haven't watched a baseball game in months.  I have a very hard time watching baseball that I don't have any sort of rooting interest for me.  Are the rest of you like that?  If the Twins or Braves aren't in the playoffs, I just can't watch.  Other teams bore me.  I love watching the Twins ( Read more... )

heh....so now what?  It's been a whirlwind adventure for me over the last 12 months.  6 credits in the summer, 16 in the fall, and finally 17 in the spring to graduate...and now...nothing.  It's really bizarre.  I've never not had homework to do...or at least the pressure to go back to school.  This week has been very interesting.  I haven't really ( Read more... )

There's not really a lot going on around this morning, whether it be sports or news related.  The only thing of real interest to me was that there was the rarest of rare plays in baseball yesterday.  Colorado Rockies Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki completed the very rare unassisted triple-play against the Braves..

Kelly Johnson led off the 7th inning ( Read more... )

This is probably taking it a bit too far.  Mets fan distracts Braves players with a high-powered flashlight.  I mean, come on.  Really?  The guy brings in this flashlight and starts shining it on the pitcher and the shortstop?

Whatever happened to just heckling a guy?

One thing that I found very humorous about the story is that he plead not ( Read more... )

I spent the very first impressionable years of my life living in Birmingham, Alabama.  The very first sporting event I ever remember going to was a University of Alabama Crimson Tide football game.  My uncle Gary, a UA grad and stereotypical and text-book redneck Southerner, was the one to take me.  It was the largest spectacle.  I remember him ( Read more... )

I should be writing a paper.  Procrastination rules.

Twins got worked over by the Yankees last night.  It's sad that Carlos Silva is a better option than Sidney Ponson.  Real sad.

Braves took 2 out of 3 against the Mets.  That made me happy.

Easter weekend was a whirlwind of familyness.  Fun and lots of good eats.

Earlier,
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