Ron Artest
T-Minus-97 Days until “The Mid Valley Classic”
Good Morning!
No football. I’m not going to talk any football today.
I’m going to attempt to throw a perfect column.
Maybe if I go a perfect 699 words before failing on word 700 someone will give me a new Corvette.
If the PAC 10 is able to expand and bring in Colorado and Utah or others it would make the basketball season very interesting as well as the other sport we are not mentioning today. Especially since the BIG 12 is also in their sights, but its tough to imagine Kansas in the PAC 10
Do the Jayhawks really want to go to Pullman, Washington every year?
What happened to Andres Galarraga was terrible. Here the guy makes the comeback to the Majors, converts to pitcher and then has his perfect game taken from him by a bad call.
I wonder if Blue State agrees or disagrees on Bud Selig’s decision not to overturn Umpire Jim Joyce’s call on the field and allow the perfect game to stand?
Selig could, but I hope he doesn’t. And as far as replay becoming part of the game, what will happen to all of the ‘in the vicinity’ calls around second base if replay becomes the standard?
Watching the Lakers game last night the difference between 2008 and now was not the new found toughness of Pau Gasol and the rest of the team. The difference is Andrew Bynum being on the floor and the addition of Mr. Maniac Ron Artest.
Plus Kevin Garnett looks positively geriatric.
Last Add Perfect Game: Oh, its Armando Galarraga and not Andres? That’s different then, forget it…Too bad for him he lost his perfect game in ninth. He shouldn’t even get to keep the Corvette. Now if it was the Big Cat, let him have it.
I’ve never been a big UCLA basketball guy…I root for them, as long as they lose to the guys crosstown, but John Wooden is something different.
Think about this he coached his last game in 1975. Everyone on this planet 35-years or younger wasn’t even drawing breath at the time. I was 11 when the Bruins knocked off Kentucky, Marques Johnson was a sophomore, down in San Diego for the school’s tenth title. So even my memories are vague.
Champions are always forgotten. Fame is very fleeting. God bless them, but even Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan’s standing in the public are jokes compared to what they used to be.
Legend has to mean something more than wins and losses. In the case of Wooden, 35-years from his last game and title, it has to be about the man himself. In the micro he never publically bad mouthed any of the coaches following him. He never went brain dead and reached back for more by making a comeback to try to rescue UCLA when it was floundering.
In the macro it was about character, about infusing values to the those he coached, and practicing what you preach.
Really Last Add Perfect Game: Of course this will haunt Umpire Jim, given name James, Joyce from here to eternity.
It is sort of a bummer one of the best Stanley Cup’s in years is currently being played on the Versus Network. What a pleasure this has been to watch…
For those of you without Versus, I can post updates of Facebook…let me know.
Really Really Last Add Perfect Game; Oh…It was James Joyce, not James Jones who screwed up the call. Well for Joyce, I guess the bad call will force him to live with the Exiles for the rest of his days.
Last Question for Blue State: You moneyball types praise the OBP (On Base Percentage)…but when a three, four, or five hitter comes up with the tying or go ahead run at third with two-out is his responsibility to get on base or to drive in the run? Because if he gets on base his OBP looks good, but it sure doesn’t help the team if the runner isn’t cashed in.
I know this because of my extensive softball experience as a run producer and having Peterson batting behind me.
Writing this column without being able to talk football…stinks on ice. Never again.
Stay thirsty my friends…
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