The Brewers haven't won a game yet. 0-4 start to the season doesn't bode well. Reminds me why I don't bother with baseball and am a Packer fan instead.
I really don't like baseball, simply because of its predictability. It's almost always a guarantee that that Yankees or one of the top 5 teams in terms of revenue/player salaries will win the Series.
Baseball, like ping pong, badminton, and (mini) golf is one of those sports I'd much rather play than watch. But there's nothing else sports wise going on for months. And I get to troll all of the Jays fans in my family. Except this year
Boston's season opener was atrocious. I'm a good fan and I have to admit it. Hopefully, though, the home opener on Friday will go better. I'll be decked out in my best Boston jersey for sure. Thanks for rooting for us, Agreen, I guess we need it?
The pitching staff, and their health, has me a little worried but otherwise I know everything will be fine. They have a lot of new faces, and yeah the first game was a disaster but by June they should be at the top of the division.
I'm going through serious football withdrawals here. It's only abated because I have the XLV DVD to watch (which I watched like 10 times in the past month, not even kidding).... and read the Sports Illustrated stories over again... and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's book.... and downloaded the Super Bowl onto my iPod to watch... You get the point. :redface:
^ I do get the point. Same deal with my younger brother. He doesn't know what to do with himself, although now that baseball is back, he's faring better. Hang in there gigi.
Wow. That National Championship game last night may have been the worst one I've seen yet in my life. Butler apparantly decided to not even bother showing up. They shot a Finals record-low 18% from the field. 18%? Really? And UConn didn't look a great deal better. Very sloppy game.
I'm not really a big fan of the NCAA tournament or basketball in general, but I always root for the underdogs in the tournament because it always seems to be so dominated by high seeds. I wanted VCU to win it all this year.
Red Sox, 0-6 is not our most bedazzling record, but I'll forget it all, if you beat the Yankees tomorrow. And beat them well.
I'm still not worried. It's April, and some of the losses, today's especially, are the kind of things that just don't happen very often. I do wish the new signings would start doing something though.
What new faces? There is very few to keep straight. I can see where you differ from my dad. He says they need to do something soon. "There's a point where the team begins to fall behind because of the losses." But you can see he's more of a football guy anyway. I seriously wish we will win tomorrow. The home openers are momentous. Not too many kids will be in school.
Crawford and Gonzalez for the most part. At least in my eyes Crawford still hasn't worked the Devil Ray stink out The Leafs started 4-0- in a season with much less games- and for the last third of the season were one of the best teams in the league, and they still missed the playoffs because for the majority of the season they played poorly. Streaks like this tend to even up over the course of the long year, a consistent level of play is most important.
hehe Crawford is especially on my watch list. Such a major buildup over the winter should have made this team. I listened to Sports Desk the other day and I'm horrified by what they're saying about us, because it's all true. But today will be different, and I agree that this poor start will level out in the end. I'm not worried per se, just tired of losing. You know, it can’t come easily with my expectations. So how did a guy like you in a Toronto-fan family come to root for the Red Sox?
Well, it took a while, but the Brewers are finally starting to win some games. It gives me hope that it's just a rough start to a good season.
I always picked them in baseball games to prove the whole 'curse' thing wrong. One of my friends was obsessed with the idea that the Red Sox would never win another World Series, which I thought was ridiculous. I also lost interest in the Jays because of the management from the late 90s on.
Ouch, Lackey received a booing with Cano's two-run double. PD home runned in Monster Seats. Yankees on top 2-1. Going to work now, will miss the rest of game. Damn it. @Agreen: hehe I never believed in the curse, because my family has always been Sox fans. And the feeling runs deep. My mom has never forgiven Buckner.
Whilst I'll be at the massive Town-Peterborough clash tomorrow afternoon, a part of me will be elsewhere. Marcus Stewart - who remains quite simply the best player I've ever seen pull on a Huddersfield Town shirt - will be playing his last-ever match. It will be his 783rd game as a professional footballer. In that time, he's hit the net 254 times. 68 of those came in 160 appearances for Town between 1996 and 2000. Many Town fans (including myself) point to his sale to Ipswich Town in 2000 as the start of Town's decline in fortunes at the start of the millennium. Abiding memories of Marcus Stewart include him scoring against us in the 1995 play-off final for Bristol Rovers. Then we signed him for a still-club record £1.2m a year later. His 17 goals in 97/98 sparked the Great Escape, and the following season he was incredible. 27 goals, most of them absolute stunners. His hat-trick in the 4-0 demolition of Crystal Palace will live long in the memory, as will his winner at Valley Parade in the West Yorkshire Derby against Bradford, especially as we'd fought from 2 down with 10 men. His brace against Palace in 1999 in the 7-1 trashing just showed the class of the guy's movement in and around the area. I'd describe it as Bergkamp-esque... only Marcus Stewart was better. In 2000 we sold him to promotion rivals Ipswich on the say-so of Ian Ayre (now managing director at Liverpool - and the man who single-handedly screwed our accounts to the extent we ended up in the Third Division, in administration, and with £20m of debt in 2003) for £2.7m, a pitiful amount. Even more so, considering that Stewie didn't want to leave the club and has come out and publicly said so in the years since he was left. (This is the main reason I'll never, ever forgive Ian Ayre). At 38, it's fair to say the legs have gone. But the brain was always what made Marcus Stewart the player he was. Happy retirement, Marcus. If you could please return as a striker coach, that would make me a very happy man. And one last thing: it will always be my biggest regret as a football fan that I never saw Marcus Stewart partner Andy Booth up front for Huddersfield Town. Even now my mouth waters at that prospect, of the two of them at their prime ripping defences apart. I saw Stewart play with Wayne 'The Chief' Allison, who was a good target man, but not a patch on Boothy.
Spoiler..... We won Now, a sweep of New York and all is right in the world. Dante Dases: I know how you feel. I can't get the image of Leafs great Mats Sundin in a putrid Vancouver Canucks jersey and how... wrong it was. I still miss Mats. But I'll always have the memories, and videos, and the legends of what he meant for the team. I'm not sure what the equivalent would be for Town, but I know it's just a matter of time until Mats' number hangs from the rafters of the ACC.
Yes we won! And what's better is that tomorrow I will get out of work in perfect timing to catch the game. Ah there's no place like Fenway. . .
Cubs 7, Brewers 4. Losing to Chicago teams is UNACCEPTABLE. Absolutely unacceptable. There is no one I'd rather beat than Chicago teams. That puts us at 3-5. Tomorrow better be a win.
