This coming weekend may be a Top 5 Weekend of the Year. The weather is getting just a bit warmer, the birdies are chirping, the basketballs bouncing and the bats and clubs a-swinging.
On the hardwood, we get the NCAA tournament cranked up again. I checked the futures sheet I brought back from Las Vegas in January. Georgetown was 40 to 1 to win the tournament. The biggest long shot of the 4. The others were in the 6 to 1 range, with Florida a 9 to 2 favorite to repeat. How much you want to bet that there are some vacationers from the D.C. area who may have laid down a shekel or two on their alma mater?
The LPGA is cranking up their first major of the year, The Kraft-Nabisco deal at Mission Hills in California. It used to be called the Dinah Shore, but they took her name off in 2000. It's the one where the winner will jump in the lake at 18 on Sunday. I think it's the only sporting event where the winner jumps in a lake, if you don't count diving.
Annika is having a rough go, and at +3, she has to have a great round on Friday to have any shot at winning. Meanwhile, Paula Creamer is hanging at +1. Pick it up a little, will ya?
The baseballs are going to start flying out of Citizen's Bank Ballpark on Friday. The Red Sox are here for a cheap excuse for a ballgame - a home exhibition game. Also known as, raking in some more money. The real season starts Monday, and I'll be there on Thursday afternoon for the Braves. I'm hoping to be able to do a little photo essay of the day.
The first sign of spring is the annual Bud Selig Stupid Pronouncement, which signals baseball ownership to cower in the corner and let him speak. Bud is the former owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and current Commissioner of Baseball. Two things that shouldn't go together are former owner and current Commissioner, but there ya are. Here are his views on switching baseball's TV package to DirecTV, and away from cable. He speaks:
"I agonized over" the decision to go with DirecTV, Selig said. "Obviously our objective is to get our product in front of as many people as possible. ... But the number of people who can't get DirecTV is very, very small."
That isn't the point, chowderhead. Everybody can get it. The point is that people already have cable, and do not want to run two bills and two services for six months of baseball. However, feeling forced because they love the game, they will either switch or miss the games.
It's the latest in a long list of things that professional sports does to squeeze the fans, forgetting to whom they owe their success.
.
On the hardwood, we get the NCAA tournament cranked up again. I checked the futures sheet I brought back from Las Vegas in January. Georgetown was 40 to 1 to win the tournament. The biggest long shot of the 4. The others were in the 6 to 1 range, with Florida a 9 to 2 favorite to repeat. How much you want to bet that there are some vacationers from the D.C. area who may have laid down a shekel or two on their alma mater?
The LPGA is cranking up their first major of the year, The Kraft-Nabisco deal at Mission Hills in California. It used to be called the Dinah Shore, but they took her name off in 2000. It's the one where the winner will jump in the lake at 18 on Sunday. I think it's the only sporting event where the winner jumps in a lake, if you don't count diving.Annika is having a rough go, and at +3, she has to have a great round on Friday to have any shot at winning. Meanwhile, Paula Creamer is hanging at +1. Pick it up a little, will ya?
That's Paula Creamer, Christie Kerr, Lorena Ochoa and Annika Sorenstam (L to R)
The baseballs are going to start flying out of Citizen's Bank Ballpark on Friday. The Red Sox are here for a cheap excuse for a ballgame - a home exhibition game. Also known as, raking in some more money. The real season starts Monday, and I'll be there on Thursday afternoon for the Braves. I'm hoping to be able to do a little photo essay of the day.
The first sign of spring is the annual Bud Selig Stupid Pronouncement, which signals baseball ownership to cower in the corner and let him speak. Bud is the former owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and current Commissioner of Baseball. Two things that shouldn't go together are former owner and current Commissioner, but there ya are. Here are his views on switching baseball's TV package to DirecTV, and away from cable. He speaks:
"I agonized over" the decision to go with DirecTV, Selig said. "Obviously our objective is to get our product in front of as many people as possible. ... But the number of people who can't get DirecTV is very, very small."
That isn't the point, chowderhead. Everybody can get it. The point is that people already have cable, and do not want to run two bills and two services for six months of baseball. However, feeling forced because they love the game, they will either switch or miss the games.
It's the latest in a long list of things that professional sports does to squeeze the fans, forgetting to whom they owe their success.
.
3 comments:
You're just hoping to see a 4 way tie at 18 with Paula Creamer, Christie Kerr, Lorena Ochoa, and Annika followed by all four jumping into the water, then emerging with their drenched polo shirts clinging to their goodies followed by a 4-way group hug in slow motion...
..no wait, that's what I'm hoping.
I'm in if we can do a 5-way with Natalie Gulbis.
mmmm natalie Gulbis
you will keep me informed as to how the phillies look wont you since I still cant get comcastphilly here on DirecTV?
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