Just a fortnight to go before America's Pastime gets underway once again!
Joe Mauer recently signed an 8 year-$184 million extension with the Minnesota Twins. That is yet another example of how moneycentric baseball has become in the last decade or so. While I have every respect for Joe Mauer and I think he is an absolutely amazing player and that if anyone deserves that kind of money, it's him, I just don't like the idea of paying players-who provide an entertainment-with 9 digit cheques. I'm still not sure whether a salary cap would solve the problem, but without one, this incessantly inflation will be impossible to stop.
The Jays chose Shaun Marcum as their Opening Day pitcher this week. I very much like the move. Marcum hasn't pitched in the majors for a long time because of his injury He's still young, got a lot of potential. It's great he can get to show everyone what he's got.
Can't wait to head out to the ballpark this season-I kind of want to see Roy Halladay's return to TO in June.
-D
Friday 26 March 2010
Sunday 21 March 2010
"...the wreck of his bracket..."
With the health care drama playing out up Pennsylvania Avenue, President Obama is reportedly spending part of this historic political day "examining the wreck of his brackets..."
Of course, Obama had, like EVERYONE else, picked the Kansas Jayhawks to win the national championship, before that team was stunned last night by the Northern Iowa Panthers in a second round upsset, 69-67. That was just tremendous news coming out of the tournament last night.
Earlier in second round play, St. Mary's upset No. 2 seed Villanova as well, knocking out another one of the contenders. Of course, on the opening day of the tournament, 3rd seed Georgetown had been blown out by University of Ohio, for the first major upset of bracket play. So now, the field is wide open. Who are you picking to win it all? Kentucky? Syracuse? West Virginia? Ohio State?
-D
Of course, Obama had, like EVERYONE else, picked the Kansas Jayhawks to win the national championship, before that team was stunned last night by the Northern Iowa Panthers in a second round upsset, 69-67. That was just tremendous news coming out of the tournament last night.
Earlier in second round play, St. Mary's upset No. 2 seed Villanova as well, knocking out another one of the contenders. Of course, on the opening day of the tournament, 3rd seed Georgetown had been blown out by University of Ohio, for the first major upset of bracket play. So now, the field is wide open. Who are you picking to win it all? Kentucky? Syracuse? West Virginia? Ohio State?
-D
Wednesday 17 March 2010
NCAA/Spring Training
So it's that time of the year again.
MARCH MADNESS is here. First round play in the perennial favourite college basketball tournament will begin tomorrow!! This year, Coach Bill Self and his Kansas team is slated to make another run for the national championship. Standing in their way are competent teams like Villanova, Duke, Kentucky, Syracuse, Georgetown, just to name a few.
If you are interested in President Barack Obama's bracket (remember he picked UNC last year?), here it is: http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/en/entry?entryID=1042011.
I don't usually watch college basketball, but with all the hype around March Madness, I'll be sure to check back in a few times on this tournament.
What I am more interested in is MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL!! My gosh-another baseball season is slated to start in just three weeks or so. I am SO excited! Not so much for my beloved Toronto Blue Jays to do something spectacular like play baseball in October, but just in general, the fact that baseball is back is VERY exciting for me.
Since the Jays are in somewhat of a rebuilding year, expectations are not very high for them. I do hope they fare well though. I'd like to see Vernon Wells live up to that 9 figure check we wrote him a few years back. Something will be amiss without Halladay as our opening day pitcher, but this gives the chance for the young guns to show what they've got.
-D
PS. Going to play baseball for the first time this year tomorrow!! Such GORGEOUS weather this week up here in TO.
MARCH MADNESS is here. First round play in the perennial favourite college basketball tournament will begin tomorrow!! This year, Coach Bill Self and his Kansas team is slated to make another run for the national championship. Standing in their way are competent teams like Villanova, Duke, Kentucky, Syracuse, Georgetown, just to name a few.
If you are interested in President Barack Obama's bracket (remember he picked UNC last year?), here it is: http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/en/entry?entryID=1042011.
I don't usually watch college basketball, but with all the hype around March Madness, I'll be sure to check back in a few times on this tournament.
What I am more interested in is MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL!! My gosh-another baseball season is slated to start in just three weeks or so. I am SO excited! Not so much for my beloved Toronto Blue Jays to do something spectacular like play baseball in October, but just in general, the fact that baseball is back is VERY exciting for me.
Since the Jays are in somewhat of a rebuilding year, expectations are not very high for them. I do hope they fare well though. I'd like to see Vernon Wells live up to that 9 figure check we wrote him a few years back. Something will be amiss without Halladay as our opening day pitcher, but this gives the chance for the young guns to show what they've got.
-D
PS. Going to play baseball for the first time this year tomorrow!! Such GORGEOUS weather this week up here in TO.
Saturday 13 March 2010
17
Yesterday was one of the best birthdays I've ever had!!
It was the last day of school before March Break and it was "Formal Friday" at our school. So all in all, couldn't have been a better day to have my 17th!!
I actually didn't sleep well the night before and I had to hand in the biggest assignment of my high school career so far too, but the day more than made up for it!!
My friends did the sweetest things for me after school, surprising me in a coffee shop by giving me a baseball glove.
I had dinner with my parents in the evening and then we had cake. Afterwards, we ended up talking for almost three hours about everything about life. It was the best ending to an AWESOME day.
I don't feel any different to be 17, but I'm just so glad my birthday was so fantastic!
-D
It was the last day of school before March Break and it was "Formal Friday" at our school. So all in all, couldn't have been a better day to have my 17th!!
I actually didn't sleep well the night before and I had to hand in the biggest assignment of my high school career so far too, but the day more than made up for it!!
My friends did the sweetest things for me after school, surprising me in a coffee shop by giving me a baseball glove.
I had dinner with my parents in the evening and then we had cake. Afterwards, we ended up talking for almost three hours about everything about life. It was the best ending to an AWESOME day.
I don't feel any different to be 17, but I'm just so glad my birthday was so fantastic!
-D
Friday 5 March 2010
Canada's Game
It's hard to believe that it's been almost a week since the Olympics drew to a close.
I didn't get a chance to update on the Canada-USA gold medal hockey game but you probably have heard that CANADA came out victorious in the end after a tense overtime goal by Sid the Kid Crosby, another person that will for sure be lighting the cauldron when the Games come back to Canada.
It's beyond my skill as a writer to describe what that gold medal, a record breaking 14th for Canada in Vancouver, meant to this country. The TV ratings averaged 16.6 million for the nearly three hour affair, making it the most watched program in this country's history. Keep in mind that Canada's total population is about 33 million. So having 16.6 million people watching that game would be equivalent to about 160 million Americans watching a TV program.
About 80%, or 26.5 million Canadians tuned into the game at some point. That's just absolutely incredible and I don't know what other event would even draw close to the same amount of people.
I'm not sure how to put the Canadian reaction into words but I think this video does some justice to what a victory that was for all 33 million hearts across this land: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHc6VGIK8-I&feature=related
-D
I didn't get a chance to update on the Canada-USA gold medal hockey game but you probably have heard that CANADA came out victorious in the end after a tense overtime goal by Sid the Kid Crosby, another person that will for sure be lighting the cauldron when the Games come back to Canada.
It's beyond my skill as a writer to describe what that gold medal, a record breaking 14th for Canada in Vancouver, meant to this country. The TV ratings averaged 16.6 million for the nearly three hour affair, making it the most watched program in this country's history. Keep in mind that Canada's total population is about 33 million. So having 16.6 million people watching that game would be equivalent to about 160 million Americans watching a TV program.
About 80%, or 26.5 million Canadians tuned into the game at some point. That's just absolutely incredible and I don't know what other event would even draw close to the same amount of people.
I'm not sure how to put the Canadian reaction into words but I think this video does some justice to what a victory that was for all 33 million hearts across this land: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHc6VGIK8-I&feature=related
-D
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