Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
What's goin' on?
- I hate the Yankees. And my problem when the Yankees win the World Series is that I feel like that WHOLE baseball season has been a complete waste of time. And we have to do the whole thing ALL OVER AGAIN next year, all the while putting up with the Yankees feeling good about themselves. Bah.
- Hockey season is in full swing and I am, as of this morning, not in last place in our hockey pool. YAY!
- The playoffs for the Canadian Football League (CFL) start this weekend. The local team squeaked in to the playoffs on the back of two wins to end the season and play the provincial rivals this coming Sunday. We shall hope for better results than they've had against the provincial rivals in recent games...
- The rumours about Roy Halladay being traded to the Boston Red Sox are making me very nervous.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Playoffs!!
HURRAY! My favourite time of the year!!
Can I just say that the Detroit - Minnesota sudden death playoff game on Tuesday was one of the best playoff game I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing? I love the games where everybody -- offense, defense, both teams - plays fantastic ball. LOVE IT.
One of the things... perhaps the ONLY thing... that I don't like about the playoffs is that the first round is only 5 games. Don't get me wrong, in other sports where the games aren't played in consecutive days, I think that a shorter first round makes good sense. But in the majors, where it is SO hard to make the playoffs and where they CAN play more games in a shorter period of time, I wish that they would go back to a 7 game first round. I just feel like a large number of first round series go buy without any suspense... they're just getting started and then they're finished. The Minnesota - New York series is a perfect example: Here's Minnesota, who has just come off this amazing win over Detroit in the sudden death game, and they're now down 2-0 to the hated Yanks, and they could be gone in what feels like mere hours after their big win. But maybe not - I'll hope they come back and make an exciting series out of it!!
And for my friend Towanda, I'm cheering on your team!
Can I just say that the Detroit - Minnesota sudden death playoff game on Tuesday was one of the best playoff game I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing? I love the games where everybody -- offense, defense, both teams - plays fantastic ball. LOVE IT.
One of the things... perhaps the ONLY thing... that I don't like about the playoffs is that the first round is only 5 games. Don't get me wrong, in other sports where the games aren't played in consecutive days, I think that a shorter first round makes good sense. But in the majors, where it is SO hard to make the playoffs and where they CAN play more games in a shorter period of time, I wish that they would go back to a 7 game first round. I just feel like a large number of first round series go buy without any suspense... they're just getting started and then they're finished. The Minnesota - New York series is a perfect example: Here's Minnesota, who has just come off this amazing win over Detroit in the sudden death game, and they're now down 2-0 to the hated Yanks, and they could be gone in what feels like mere hours after their big win. But maybe not - I'll hope they come back and make an exciting series out of it!!
And for my friend Towanda, I'm cheering on your team!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Wow...
Congratulations to both Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
How can you go wrong in an afternoon when they both win!?
What a great golf season, and I am looking forward to the President's Cup in a couple of weeks!
How can you go wrong in an afternoon when they both win!?
What a great golf season, and I am looking forward to the President's Cup in a couple of weeks!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Follow Up
I feel like I should follow up on my passionate, yet brief, condemnation of Serena Williams yesterday to explain why I feel so strongly about one outburst in a sport known for its athletes flipping out at officials.
I think that there are two main things that set the incident yesterday apart in my mind:
1) The tirade didn't seem to me to be about the call but more about Serena blowing off steam. Instead of calling out the official on a call she didn't agree with, she insulted, she swore and she threatened. I was taken aback by the pure vitriol in her approach to the official and I would argue that the attack was not just verbally threatening, but also physically so. Had I been the line judge, I would have run fleeing into the stands.
2) The tirade was directed not at the chair umpire, on whom there is a certain responsibility to be accountable to the players for the officiating, but on an essentially voiceless line judge, a person who couldn't defend herself and couldn't answer back. Her only job during the match was to watch the line, and she did that. Her job description does not include speaking to the players, explaining calls to the players and it certainly doesn't include arguing with them.
I should say that I've always been one of the first people to defend Serena and Venus against accusations of ego and/or arrogance, but I can't excuse what she did on the court last night, and I feel badly that Kim Clijsters had to win the match under those circumstances. (Awkward!)
Speaking of Kim, what a win today!
I think that there are two main things that set the incident yesterday apart in my mind:
1) The tirade didn't seem to me to be about the call but more about Serena blowing off steam. Instead of calling out the official on a call she didn't agree with, she insulted, she swore and she threatened. I was taken aback by the pure vitriol in her approach to the official and I would argue that the attack was not just verbally threatening, but also physically so. Had I been the line judge, I would have run fleeing into the stands.
2) The tirade was directed not at the chair umpire, on whom there is a certain responsibility to be accountable to the players for the officiating, but on an essentially voiceless line judge, a person who couldn't defend herself and couldn't answer back. Her only job during the match was to watch the line, and she did that. Her job description does not include speaking to the players, explaining calls to the players and it certainly doesn't include arguing with them.
I should say that I've always been one of the first people to defend Serena and Venus against accusations of ego and/or arrogance, but I can't excuse what she did on the court last night, and I feel badly that Kim Clijsters had to win the match under those circumstances. (Awkward!)
Speaking of Kim, what a win today!
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Gateau au Baseball
If you've never checked out the site Cake Wrecks, I strongly recommend it. I suggest starting with this post: Forget the Ballgame, Just Take Me Out.
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