Where Is Everybody? It’s a Baseball Game, Not a Funeral. Rob’s T-shirt says it all….
Hey, I know I’m no Judy Garland, and my son Rob is only similar to Dorothy’s dog Toto in that he’s as cute as a bug and loves a good hot dog now and then, but the one thing all four of us DO have in common is having survived a little culture shock.
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If you follow golf at all (and maybe even if you don’t) you are probably aware that a nice young fellow named Dustin Johnson was disqualified from the PGA Championship last week—more specifically, disqualified from being in a 3-man playoff to determine the PGA champion—for grounding his club in a bunker on the tournament’s [...]
I had a bad week.
I don’t say that to elicit sympathy. Okay, maybe a little bit. No, rather my personal pain is the bedrock of today’s sermon. For without the advent of the week’s despair and the inevitable gnashing of teeth (in my case, literally), there would be no Salvation at the end.
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Well well, all you provincial parochial ‘homers’ out there, it’s time to ask the $64 dollar question.
Or, more precisely, the $112 million dollar question. Since that’s their “estimated” payroll for 2010.
Anyway….
WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THE DODGERS???
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. As a lifelong Giants fans, I [...]
In sports, as in life, everything seems to even out in the end.
(It doesn’t, of course. Just seems to.)
Take baseball. There are bad calls by umpires in baseball all the time. Stands to reason that the good and the bad should even out. Although Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga probably doesn’t think [...]
I spent two hours moving boxes out of the attic the other day.
Painful.
And I mean painful in every application of the word. Painful physically, for no 54-year-old man with a bad back and balky knees should spend two hours in a 115-degree attic crawling around lifting and lowering down heavy boxes, and [...]
They played a little game of tennis out on Court Eighteen at Wimbledon on Tuesday.
And Wednesday.
And Thursday.
They played into darkness twice and left the court to frenzied (albeit disappointed) crowds twice, because after two days there was still no winner to worship. This was only a 1st-round match. Only an insignificant [...]
Dear Diary,
I hardly know where to start.
So the Lakers finally beat the Celtics, huh? Big deal. They’d beaten them in the finals before. Twice. Okay okay, so twice out of eleven isn’t so hot, I know, I get it. And they’d never beaten them in a game seven, where it was all [...]
Sports usually disappoints.
I mean it. The end result of most landmark sporting events is that the anticipation far exceeds the actual outcome of the event itself. This might strike you as a surprising comment from a man who loves sports, writes about sports, and knows more about most sports than most of you [...]
Folks, there’s more to this Galarragagate thing than meets an umpire’s eye….hey, am I the first one to call it that?
And what exactly is Galarragagate, you ask? Well, if you don’t know, you’re not really paying much attention. This has gone way beyond being just a sports story. It has been all over [...]
