I know that I can’t put a whole lot of stock in Spring Training performances, either good or bad. If you take ST stats too seriously, the Royals are all better batters than Ichiro. But how many sub-standard performances am I supposed to shrug off here? My handy countdown tells me the real actual season …
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Mar 14
Baylor…what?
So, remember when I said that Colorado would for sure lose to Baylor in round one of the Big XII Tournament Presented by Phillips 66? …wrong. So, so wrong. What the heck, Baylor? 12-seeds are NOT supposed to win these things, ever. EVER. Other than that, I guessed correctly about the outcome of the round …
Mar 11
Big XII and other awesomeness
Today was really really awesome. I mean, the kind of awesome that leaves you grinning for hours, for no particular reason. Firstly, I only have one class on Tuesdays, so I didn’t have to waste much time being indoors. It was the first warm day we’ve had a long while (I think we finally passed …
Mar 09
DSB
Sixth inning. A runner on first, one on second, one on third. Hoo boy, the sacks are juiced. Number 21 steps out of the on-deck circle, and music blares. “Don’t stop Believin’ Hold on to that fee-eeee-liiinn Street lights, people o-oh-whoooooaaaaa!” God bless Nebraska’s Nick Sullivan for his choice of walk-up song. If I were …
Mar 05
On language, Bannister, and links
1) Sometimes, when my phone is singing an annoying tune and the sharp sunlight is scraping my tired eyelids open, I want to go back to bed instead of to my Spanish class. Then I try to remind myself that speaking both English and Spanish (if not also Japanese) is a pretty crucial skill for …
Mar 04
A football moment, brought to you by Favre’s retirement
Before Brett Favre captured my little heart, football was just a thing my parents and brothers watched while I kept myself entertained elsewhere in the house. I’d wander in to the TV room sometimes, but mostly I was in one place, and football was in another. Then in grade school, one of my classmates was …
Feb 28
This and that
There goes another piece of my childhood… This KC Star article got buried pretty quickly and quietly, but it’s worth mention. I grew up listening to Fred and Denny, and was distraught when the team fired White in 1998. When Ryan LeFebvre made his way into the daily Royals broadcasts, I hated him. He wasn’t …
Feb 26
Behold! A ton of links!
Spring Training, in case you hadn’t noticed, is most certainly upon us. Predictably, many of the royals.com stories that are coming out from Surprise each day are pretty fluffy; the usual insistence that each player is in the best shape of his life, some hefty optimism from various coaches and players, and so forth. Usually …
Feb 21
The wrap, finally: NU-KSU
To be completely and embarrassingly honest here, I did not have much faith in Nebraska’s chances against Kansas State last night. I figured Michael Beasley would do his thing, as would Bill Walker, Jacob Pullen, and the rest of the Wildcats. Sure, I was excited about the game, but I didn’t expect a win because …
Feb 20
Beasley? More like… BOOOOOO!sley
I’ll write more later, but I really, really hate Michael Beasley. Laughing in his face after he failed to put up the 50 points he promised against my Huskers tonight? That felt good. Labels: basketball, Huskers