I made it up to Nationals Park for the first time a couple weeks ago, after seeing close to 50 games total at RFK over the past three seasons. (Needless to say, the yearly average is going down given my new home — both its location and the associated mortgage. But such is life.)
27 April 2008 / 0 Comments / Tags: baseballYou should be reading Ramble On right now.
Actually, you should be reading Bret’s stuff all the time. Because it’s always good. But now in particular, because he’s posting stories and pictures from his whirlwind trip last month to the underway USS Ronald Reagan, including COD rides between Naval Air Station North Island and the flight deck.
Read and enjoy.
18 April 2008 / 1 Comment / Tags: life, travel / TrackbackI wanted to like THE SPORTS BOOK ($35.00, DK Publishing, $23.10 at Amazon). Really, I did. The advance release I received advertised an encyclopedia of the rules and tactics of virtually every common athletic competition the world over. Ever been struck one night with an intense desire to figure out, “Just what the heck is korfball”? Tuned across Australian rules football on a public TV digital subchannel and been strangely entranced, yet completely confused as to the actual goal of the event? Well, this should be the book to solve all those problems.
Plus, it’s covered in Astroturf. No, really.
7 April 2008 / 0 Comments / Tags: booksWow, is Yahoo’s scenario generator awesome.
I have three of the four final-four teams: all but Kansas (not that Clemson, my pick out of the Midwest, could have beaten Davidson, let alone KU), and my running record is now at 39 of 60.
My current standing in my two pools is thoroughly mediocre, but the scenario generator gives me hope. In my 4th-of-6 pool, I finish second if the final is UNC-Memphis, no matter which way that game goes; conversely, if UCLA beats Memphis I stay 4th no matter how the other two games go. But in my 7th-of-14 pool, I finish tied for first either way in a UNC-Memphis final, second if Carolina wins over UCLA but all the way down to 9th if UCLA wins, all the way down to twelfth either way in a Kansas-UCLA final, and flipflop 5th or 6th in a Kansas-Memphis final.
1 April 2008 / 0 Comments / Tags: basketball