Odds and Ends
*In my sleep-deprived state last night, I didn't bother to stop and ponder the fact there won't be any more Sox pitchers hitting this week since they are playing at Fenway. Still, no one expected Tim Lollar to take the plate for Rey Quinones back in 1986 either, so the Tim Lollar Award remains open until the end of the week.
*Yes! The Internet has made it out to Idaho! Next thing you know they'll have indoor plumbing and that fancy color tee-vee. Longtime Dave's World correspondent Simon F. chimed in from his armed fortress somewhere north of Couer D'Alene, on my piece about Seattle from Sunday:
The bottom line is that they are some of the most fair-weather fans in
all of sports. The town seems huge on the Seattle Storm now, just based on the championship. Growing up, I remember equal bouts of fan psychosis over all of the pro teams. The Sonics in the late 70s and again in the early 90s. The Seahawks in the early and mid 1980s (the waiting list for tickets was absurd for about 10 years) and the Mariners in 1995 and 2000-2003. All also are ignored when they fall off
a bit.
Here comes the anti-UW rant, so bear with me:
Hell, the locals even abandoned the Huskies during last year's 1-10
disaster (or, as I like to call it, The Best Season Ever). And don't
even get me started on Huskies basketball. The women (who were winning)
have outdrawn the men (who were coached by luminaries Andy Russo, Lynn
Nance and Bob Bender) for the better part of the past 20 years. Now,
the UW thinks it's one of the nation's premier basketball schools and
its fans fancy themselves a west coast version of the Cameron Crazies.
Anyway, I gotta get going 'cuz the baby is hungry and we're all outta Spam and government cheese, so I gotta go out and shoot me a couple squirrels.
OK, I made up that last sentence. But I probably should have pointed out, if you haven't already guessed, that the author is a Washington State grad.
*There is no truth to the rumor that if you put the collective brainpower of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association into the skull of a parakeet, the bird would fly backwards. But I can see why people might believe otherwise. I've been watching from afar with amusement as various factions in the MIAA decided to can the Division 1A state hockey tournament, then bring it back. It is time to kill the Super 8. It served its purpose and ran its course. No matter how they tinker with the rules, Catholic Memorial is going to win. I don't like saying that as a B.C. High grad, but that's the truth. Just go back to one big single-elimination tournament. Like they do in every other sport and every other division in hockey. If nothing else, there's always the chance someone comes out, plays lights out, catches CM on a bad night, and wins. The best part of this is whole scenario is how they came flat out and said they are keeping the tournament because it is a cash cow. Remember that the next time you're at a high school tournament game and they drone on and on with their announcements about the value of academics.
*Sunday night was the WWE's ECW pay-per-view. ECW, the renegade, independent wrestling company that revolutionized the industry in the mid-to-late 1990s, was way too big a part of my life. Much of my social development was sacrificed as I drove to ECW shows (as far away as Philadelphia. Including once through a blizzard) and obsessively collected tapes. I passed on getting the show on Sunday night because I was wary of the idea of a WWE-produced ECW show. But my buddy Denis Gorman went to the show live and filed a report on his blog. Oh, and, there's some pretty graphic language on this link, so be forewarned. Here's the link
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