24 October 2005
BYE, BYE USC!
TEXAS PASSES USC IN THE BCS POLL!!! Don't worry, USC will continue to drop. They play in the PAC-10, so there is no way to regain your status as #1 when you are playing a bunch of pansies. But, if you hate Texas don't get too excited either. Virginia Tech has the toughest schedule of the TOP 3 & could beat either. Texas fans should be very worried if you have to play VA TECH or and SEC school instead of "Prom King" Matt Leinart and USC. If the ACC & SEC have someone (VA TECH, UGA, OR BAMA) go undefeated it will be an absolute disgrace when they have to play each other again in the Sugar Bowl. WAR EAGLE!
19 October 2005
Uh yeah mom can you hold on a sec. ?
There are few things in life that you put your mom on hold for this one paid off:
Last night I talked to my mom for the first time in a month. No reason we hadn’t other then I let things get in the way of a simple phone call home. We chatted about important stuff for 20 min. or so then she asked about my Cardinals. (yes I realize I hold no stake other then emotional pride in the St. Louis Cardinals)
Mom: Your cardinals are doing pretty well
Me: Actually they are down 3games to 1 and only have 3 outs left to make up a 2 run deficit.
Mom: Oh really?
Me: yeah, I’m not real thrilled, make that 1 out left
Beth: I’ll let you know if it’s anything you want to watch.
I head back in the kitchen we chat a little more. A few minutes pass
Beth waves at me and motions for me to come into the living room
Me: *in a hopeful, but subdued tone*Ok hang on a second mom the greatest hitter in the game is up to bat with runners on 1st and 2nd (an exact quote) I might be a bit distracted.
Mom: *chuckles* who is that
Me: Albert Pujols, he’s also facing the games best closer.
Mom:ok
Pujols takes an ugly cut at a nasty slider (looking back on it I wonder if he didn’t do it to bait Brad Lidge).
Me: 2 strikes left
Next pitch Lidge hangs a slider over the plate, Pujols hits it square . . .
Me: *Yelling into the phone and jumping around the room* He did it! No way! He did it!
The ball lands literally over the bleachers (about 500 feet from home easy)
I’ve never felt a team go from utterly defeated to back in a series as quick as I did last night. Mom then handed the phone over to dad and I recounted to him the greatness of Albert Pujols and watched Izy close out the Ninth.
3-2 and headed back to St. Louis
Last night I talked to my mom for the first time in a month. No reason we hadn’t other then I let things get in the way of a simple phone call home. We chatted about important stuff for 20 min. or so then she asked about my Cardinals. (yes I realize I hold no stake other then emotional pride in the St. Louis Cardinals)
Mom: Your cardinals are doing pretty well
Me: Actually they are down 3games to 1 and only have 3 outs left to make up a 2 run deficit.
Mom: Oh really?
Me: yeah, I’m not real thrilled, make that 1 out left
Beth: I’ll let you know if it’s anything you want to watch.
I head back in the kitchen we chat a little more. A few minutes pass
Beth waves at me and motions for me to come into the living room
Me: *in a hopeful, but subdued tone*Ok hang on a second mom the greatest hitter in the game is up to bat with runners on 1st and 2nd (an exact quote) I might be a bit distracted.
Mom: *chuckles* who is that
Me: Albert Pujols, he’s also facing the games best closer.
Mom:ok
Pujols takes an ugly cut at a nasty slider (looking back on it I wonder if he didn’t do it to bait Brad Lidge).
Me: 2 strikes left
Next pitch Lidge hangs a slider over the plate, Pujols hits it square . . .
Me: *Yelling into the phone and jumping around the room* He did it! No way! He did it!
The ball lands literally over the bleachers (about 500 feet from home easy)
I’ve never felt a team go from utterly defeated to back in a series as quick as I did last night. Mom then handed the phone over to dad and I recounted to him the greatness of Albert Pujols and watched Izy close out the Ninth.
3-2 and headed back to St. Louis
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