I can't think of a call worse than this one at home plate:
ESPN reports on the aftermath:
The ump was right on top of that and if he couldn't see that tag then 1) he should get his eyes checks, and 2) he should be fired.
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Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Pure Michigan Video Spoof: Detroit Tigers
Another in a line of these that I have posted:
Previously:
Pure Michigan Video Spoof: DEMF
Pure Michigan Video Spoof: Monsoon Season
Pure Michigan Video Spoof: St. Patrick's Day
Video: More 'Pure Michigan' Spoofs
Pure Michigan Video: Winter Virgins
Video: Even More 'Pure Michigan' Spoofs
Previously:
Pure Michigan Video Spoof: DEMF
Pure Michigan Video Spoof: Monsoon Season
Pure Michigan Video Spoof: St. Patrick's Day
Video: More 'Pure Michigan' Spoofs
Pure Michigan Video: Winter Virgins
Video: Even More 'Pure Michigan' Spoofs
Having Soccer World Cup Decided On Shootout Is Stupid And Here's Why
OK, so Japan beat the US in the World Cup:
And via The Macomb Daily: Japan beats U.S. in penalty shootout for 1st World Cup title
And via The Macomb Daily: Japan beats U.S. in penalty shootout for 1st World Cup title
Japan has won the Women's World Cup, stunning the United States 3-1 in a penalty shootout Sunday night after coming from behind twice in a 2-2 tie.Here's the thing that irks me, and it has nothing to do with Japan winning. Sports like soccer, hockey and football are team sports. Meaning that many people are involved on both sides of the ball (or puck). There is a coordinated offense, and a coordinated defense. When you decide a game in a sport like that in a shootout, especially the championship game, it totally takes the team concept out of the picture. It devolves into a 1 on 1 situation. In hockey, you play overtime after overtime until someone scores. In football, you ply overtime after overtime until someone scores. But in soccer the World Cup was decided by this? That's just not right.
UAAP: 'Guide' to watching Eagles-Archers game goes viral on Facebook
UAAP rival teams Ateneo Blue Eagles and La Salle Green Archers are set to meet for the first time in UAAP Season 74 before an expected sellout crowd on Saturday at the Araneta Coliseum.Ateneo and La Salle to face off for the first time this season on SaturdayA few days before the highly anticipated duel, a so-called guide to watching the Ateneo-La Salle game made the rounds on Facebook. The list
UAAP: 'Guide' to watching Eagles-Archers game goes viral on Facebook
UAAP rival teams Ateneo Blue Eagles and La Salle Green Archers are set to meet for the first time in UAAP Season 74 before an expected sellout crowd on Saturday at the Araneta Coliseum.Ateneo and La Salle to face off for the first time this season on SaturdayA few days before the highly anticipated duel, a so-called guide to watching the Ateneo-La Salle game made the rounds on Facebook. The list
Shock Video: Texas Rangers Fan Dies After Trying to Catch Ball
This is just tragic:
UPDATE:More baseball news: Red Sox Fan Gets to ‘2nd Base’ on Live TV; Announcers Completely Lose it
Reigning AL MVP Josh Hamilton grabbed the foul ball that ricocheted into left field and tossed it into the stands, as he has countless times before. Shannon Stone, who was at the game with his young son, caught the ball but tumbled over a railing and plunged 20 feet onto concrete. The 39-year-old firefighter from Brownwood died at a hospital a short time later, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office said.
Wow: Joey Chestnut scarfed down 62 hot dogs (with buns!) to win 4th of July hot dog eating contest at Coney Island
For the record, I scarfed down 7 hamburger patties (about 1/4 - 1/3 lb each) and a few hot dogs at a cookout yesterday (no buns with either by the way). Which is absolutely puny compared to what Joey Chestnut did in only 10 minutes yesterday:
Wow. Where the heck does all that go? The 'black widow' scarfing down 40 dogs would best most men weighing in at 4 times her weight.
Wow. Where the heck does all that go? The 'black widow' scarfing down 40 dogs would best most men weighing in at 4 times her weight.
Next on my reading list: Cami Ostman's marathon memoir Second Wind
I like working with publishers, such as Harlequin, Cleis Press and Seal Press, to name three, that publish books I like to read. They all do, and while I don't have time to read everything they publish, I try to keep up and have discovered some amazing authors that way. While Seal always has lots of titles I'm interested in (I'm basically the target audience for Pretty Neat, you know?), what I love about discovering books the most is just that: the discovery. The act of hearing about a book in some fashion, usually through a friend, review, via social media or, in this case, via the publisher, and thinking, Wow, that sounds amazing. Also in this case, thinking, And that is the perfect gift for my marathon-running stepfather.
So I haven't read it yet, but I look forward to the memoir Second Wind: One Woman's Midlife Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents. Her official site is 7marathons7continents.com and you can also keep track of her goal to run a marathon in each of the 50 United States by 2017!
Publisher's description:
Second Wind is the story of an unlikely athlete and an unlikely heroine: Cami Ostman, a woman edging toward midlife who decides to take on a challenge that stretches her way outside of her comfort zone. That challenge presents itself when an old friend suggests she go for a run to distract her from the grief of her recent divorce. Excited by the clarity of mind and breathing space running offers her, she keeps it up—albeit slowly. Soon the old friend, Bill, now a romantic interest, invites her to Prague to run a marathon. Little does either of them know that this race will be the first of many international marathons, and that it will ignite a quest to run seven marathons on seven continents.
Up hills and through flash floods, more often alone than with company, Cami forges a path through some of the most exotic places in the world—and into some of the most enlightened, and darkest, places in the psyche. Insightful and uplifting, Second Wind carries the reader along for the ride as Cami runs her way out of compliance with the patriarchal rules about “being a woman” that long held her captive and into authenticity and self-love. Her adventures—and the personal revelations that accompany them—will inspire readers to take chances, find truth in their lives, and learn to listen to the voice inside them that’s been there all along.
I liked the book trailer because she said some things like "You need to find your own authentic pace in life" that transcend running, even though her book is about running. Of course it's about more than that (okay, maybe not "of course," but as an avid memoir reader, there is almost always something more going on that the surface topic).
So I haven't read it yet, but I look forward to the memoir Second Wind: One Woman's Midlife Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents. Her official site is 7marathons7continents.com and you can also keep track of her goal to run a marathon in each of the 50 United States by 2017!
Publisher's description:
Second Wind is the story of an unlikely athlete and an unlikely heroine: Cami Ostman, a woman edging toward midlife who decides to take on a challenge that stretches her way outside of her comfort zone. That challenge presents itself when an old friend suggests she go for a run to distract her from the grief of her recent divorce. Excited by the clarity of mind and breathing space running offers her, she keeps it up—albeit slowly. Soon the old friend, Bill, now a romantic interest, invites her to Prague to run a marathon. Little does either of them know that this race will be the first of many international marathons, and that it will ignite a quest to run seven marathons on seven continents.
Up hills and through flash floods, more often alone than with company, Cami forges a path through some of the most exotic places in the world—and into some of the most enlightened, and darkest, places in the psyche. Insightful and uplifting, Second Wind carries the reader along for the ride as Cami runs her way out of compliance with the patriarchal rules about “being a woman” that long held her captive and into authenticity and self-love. Her adventures—and the personal revelations that accompany them—will inspire readers to take chances, find truth in their lives, and learn to listen to the voice inside them that’s been there all along.
I liked the book trailer because she said some things like "You need to find your own authentic pace in life" that transcend running, even though her book is about running. Of course it's about more than that (okay, maybe not "of course," but as an avid memoir reader, there is almost always something more going on that the surface topic).
