Passion and Sports
Great! Just what we need. Another Manning to torment us.
If you've wondered what the elements might be like for baseball in late October in Denver in 2037, you got a sneak peek last night in Chicago. It looked miserable, with the temperature at 45 and a steady rain most of the game. A high-scoring game was definitely surprising, given that cool and damp weather usually give the pitchers an advantage.
I think that the way the game ended last night serves as a reminder to me why sports, in general, are so endearing to us and we find it so easy to get passionate about our team. After all the strategizing and maneuvering, things can still happen that are so unexpected that noone could possibly script them. Sports are filled with failures, some that are so painful that they are embedded in our minds forever, and successes, some that exude such joy that the only way we can express it is to hoot and holler. Our lives are also filled with failures and successes, so we can relate as human beings. Baseball tends to offer this element to a greater degree than other sports due to the one on one battle between pitcher and batter. It lends itself to personal heroics more than other sports for that reason. So, Scott Podsednik, the AL version of Juan Pierre, who so rarely hits a homerun but has hit two in the postseason, hits a walk-off against Brad Lidge, the next generation's most likely dominant closer.
Houston will now return to the Juice Box, putting nearly all of it's hopes on the shoulders of Roy Oswalt. The Astros can be briefly comforted by the fact that their best pitcher will be starting game 3. However, they will be going against Jon Garland, who at times during the season was Chicago's best pitcher. So far, the series hasn't been disappointing, being pretty entertaining.
There's been a few changes for the website and blog. I've finally decided to go with a Rockies color scheme. There are a few bugs still being worked out, so if you use FireFox you'll need to revert back to IE for the time being. If you read DITR from an aggregator or newsreader, go check it out. Also, at work I got a new computer a couple of months ago and with it came Office XP. Excel XP has XML capabilities so, instead of XLS files on the site, I have converted most to HTML and XML files. I have a short help section for using these files. Hopefully they will be more useful in these formats. All the Excel files should be in these formats in the near future.
I didn't do quite enough homework on the latest trivia question, so as it turns out there are three correct answers. Ryan Mattheus, Darren Clarke and Ryan Shealy were all drafted out of high school and college by the Rox and are currently in the organization. Shealy was the one I was thinking of.
If you've wondered what the elements might be like for baseball in late October in Denver in 2037, you got a sneak peek last night in Chicago. It looked miserable, with the temperature at 45 and a steady rain most of the game. A high-scoring game was definitely surprising, given that cool and damp weather usually give the pitchers an advantage.
I think that the way the game ended last night serves as a reminder to me why sports, in general, are so endearing to us and we find it so easy to get passionate about our team. After all the strategizing and maneuvering, things can still happen that are so unexpected that noone could possibly script them. Sports are filled with failures, some that are so painful that they are embedded in our minds forever, and successes, some that exude such joy that the only way we can express it is to hoot and holler. Our lives are also filled with failures and successes, so we can relate as human beings. Baseball tends to offer this element to a greater degree than other sports due to the one on one battle between pitcher and batter. It lends itself to personal heroics more than other sports for that reason. So, Scott Podsednik, the AL version of Juan Pierre, who so rarely hits a homerun but has hit two in the postseason, hits a walk-off against Brad Lidge, the next generation's most likely dominant closer.
Houston will now return to the Juice Box, putting nearly all of it's hopes on the shoulders of Roy Oswalt. The Astros can be briefly comforted by the fact that their best pitcher will be starting game 3. However, they will be going against Jon Garland, who at times during the season was Chicago's best pitcher. So far, the series hasn't been disappointing, being pretty entertaining.
There's been a few changes for the website and blog. I've finally decided to go with a Rockies color scheme. There are a few bugs still being worked out, so if you use FireFox you'll need to revert back to IE for the time being. If you read DITR from an aggregator or newsreader, go check it out. Also, at work I got a new computer a couple of months ago and with it came Office XP. Excel XP has XML capabilities so, instead of XLS files on the site, I have converted most to HTML and XML files. I have a short help section for using these files. Hopefully they will be more useful in these formats. All the Excel files should be in these formats in the near future.
I didn't do quite enough homework on the latest trivia question, so as it turns out there are three correct answers. Ryan Mattheus, Darren Clarke and Ryan Shealy were all drafted out of high school and college by the Rox and are currently in the organization. Shealy was the one I was thinking of.
posted by Todd Nikkel | 7:49 AM
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