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We had our last game of the city league basketball season and we won another close one. We ended the year on a two-game winning streak, winning three of our last four. Last night’s game wasn’t too pretty. At times we were down by 15 points and we couldn’t seem to get many of our shots [ READ MORE ]
For only the second time this year we won. Our opponent tonight was pretty good, but one ref wasn’t. I think he had it out for me. He would call anything in my favor, seriously. As an example, in one play toward the end of the game, a guy on the other team and I [ READ MORE ]
We lost our weekly basketball game again tonight. Tonight’s game was really close for three quarters and in the fourth we just let the game get away. The team we played tonight was about as good as any we have played all year, which means we played our best ball of the year (in my [ READ MORE ]
I am still playing basketball every Sunday night, but I haven’t written about it for a while because it hasn’t been going so well. We actually haven’t won a game since our very first one, and it was a practice game so it doesn’t even count. I really let the team down by fouling out. Not [ READ MORE ]
I found a list today of MLB players in the World Baseball Classic. It was fun to look over the list and see which players would be playing for which country. Like Andruw Jones playing for the Netherlands. I wouldn’t have guessed he was Dutch. I still think the Dominican Republic is the team to [ READ MORE ]
The World Baseball Classic (WBC) is a new world baseball tournament set up MLB and it starts this coming March. Some pretty big names are slated to play for the US and it looks like they are playing with a DH. About the only other thing I know is the US Treasury Department blocked Cuba [ READ MORE ]
I have decided, since moving to Eugene, that I was going to follow the LA Dodgers and the KC Royals. You might think I came to this conclusion because these teams happen to be the last NL and AL cities I lived in and you’d be right (I would have also accepted “they are the [ READ MORE ]
Not too exciting, but I am going to be playing on a city league basketball team with some other guys from my work. The league starts Dec 1 or so, I will keep you posted with my stats, like the number of people I dunk on! [ READ MORE ]
Clearly I am no good at picking the teams I want to win. Before the league series I stated that I wanted to see a St. Louis – Los Angeles World Series. Didn’t get it. And I wasn’t too successful in my division picks either. Oh well. Should be a good series. Two teams that [ READ MORE ]
Did anyone see the end of the Angels-White Sox game? The umpire ruined the game by missing a call and then being too proud to fix it. The replay clearly shows the umpire calling the batter out (and it clearly shows the catcher catching the ball without it hit the ground). On a side note, I [ READ MORE ]