Sorts of Sports

I'm sure you've seen the video of the kid getting hit by the ball at the Astros game. Wait, not the kid standing up but his girlfriend behind him that got hit after her boyfriend ducked out of the way like a scared 5-year old. What you may not have seen is the post-game interviews or the day after interviews. This kid has to hate his life. I mean look at her face.

I don't feel like talking about the Red Sox and if they are out of it yet. I don't feel like exploring the Cowboys/Bengals preseason game. So I'll go with some old news from last week. I have been MIA, therefore any news I post on this site is considered new news.

The trading deadline came and went and as expected, the Red Sox didn't do anything and the Yankees did everything to get more players. I scratch my head on the decisions, much as I used to do back prior to 2004 when the Yankees would do whatever they could to buy players at the deadline, and even more, this one makes no sense to me.

Well, The Red Sox really just killed me today. You know how it is, one moment your doing fantastic, nothing could be better. The next moment you are laying in a shady motel bath tub full of ice missing a kidney. Never happened to you? Just wait. Sox had a 2 - 1 lead going into the 8th where once again, Hideki Okajima squanders up 2 runs. Seattle adds another, ex Red Sox stiff David Aardsma comes in and shuts the door for the save. This is horrific. I mean the Mariners are 30th in the league in AVG. at .235. It is only that high because Ichiro hits .308. Ichiro did not have a hit in todays game, 0 - 5, and the Sox still gave up 11 hits.

So everyone knows about these children actors who have a breakout role as a child and are loved by all. They then follow through and do some other movies, but being so young and vulnerable (imagine Leopold “Butters” Stotch”) their down fall is usually before they can legally drive a car. Corruption seeps into these children’s lives....or they just finally figure out about drugs. You are most likely thinking to yourself, where in gods name is this story going. Well, I do not feel guilty for Macaulay Culkin. Instead I started looking into my favorite childhood sports movies. I then started looking at children’s whose breakthrough came in these favorites of mine.

Why America’s Favorite Pastime Will Always Be Relevant (in America)

Bottle rockets glared red and color bombs burst in the air over a lake in the heart of New Hampshire on the 4^th of July, 2010, America’s Independence Day.  The crowd on the private beach crooned and murmured ‘Ouhhs’ and ‘Ahhs’ as a soused little bint attempted to replicate what could barely be discerned as our nation’s national anthem.  As she slurred and cackled her way to the terminus of the Star Spangled Banner, an emphatic, “Play Ball!” could be heard over the din.

After last year’s long season filled with a disabled list that basically needed to be printed on an Egyptian scroll, not to mention a disheartening slump to start off this year’s season, the New York Metropolitans have finally developed a strong line-up.  The return of Jose Reyes, addition of Ike Davis, acquirement of Jeff Francoeur, Rod Barajas, and Jason Bay, and of course David Wright finding his rhythm have all pushed the days of D. Wright being the only bat fans could depend on far away.  With the return of Carlos Beltran quickly approaching, METS fans are looking forward to more opportunity to get this line-up going.  But let’s be honest here, with Beltran’s return there will be a loss somewhere in the line-up that may or may not be for the better.

I understand this isn't the 1989 World Series, but it is still a damn earthquake that rattled through Petco Park last night. No one is making a big deal of it though. Sure ESPN Sportscenter tonight will do a top 10 segment for top 10 earthquakes at sporting events, which I doubt that there is even more than 3, and #1 will be the 1989 World Series, but these fans last night were treated to something special.