Sorry, it's been a while since I posted anything - but the French Open is EXCITING! I watched Rafa, who reminded me of the Nuggets and the Cavs. Ok, now why, exactly are we here again? And why are those other people celebrating??... Anyway, Rafa was practically in the stands he was so far back on serve receive. Slowest I've ever seen him move.
On the other hand, Andy Rodick looked fantastic on Saturday. Did you guys know that he can volley??? Neither did I. But he can, and did!
Also out - Novak 'Can't take a' Djokovic. Straight sets loss to the 29 seed who's name I can't spell.
In an interesting turn of events in horse racing, the owners of Rachel Alexandra decided not to run her in the Belmont. So Calvin Borel, the crazy, annoying jockey is back on Mine The Bird to go for his own personal triple crown.
Jock
PS. I am not hung-over. Just lazy.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Trying to cover everything.... and poorly at that!
OK - Star asked me to blog on the Giro and Lilly wants me to talk about the French Open, and Jock is probably just nursing a hangover. I'm watching Zack Grienke pitch again today. He truly is a rock star... for a small market guy.
OK - Giro - not sure what happened on Friday or Saturday's stages. I read the results and Sastre won on Friday, but didn't shake up the top five, the Saturday stage was won by a young rider who I hadn't heard of, and today was the TT. With nice weather for the start, and early starting Lithuanian TT champion won the whole thing, with Bradley Wiggins coming in only 1 second back. Menchov biffed in the last K (couldn't find a shot of the crash) but still finished in the top 10 overall and secured the win. Here's some pics: 1, 2, 3. But seriously, Rabobank, spring for a pink aero helmet, orange clashes.
Big news at Roland Garros, which of course we could not see since I don't have Tennis Network, and according to our only non family reader, didn't even show the Rafa match. The big Swede, Robin Soderling, upset the 4 time defending champion in 4 sets. And although I am cheering for Andy, I really kind of hope that this makes the path for Rogerer a little smoother to enable him to finally get his career Slam.
And of course, a big shout out to the nephew V, who, at the age of 13, can intelligently discuss the MLB, NBA, NHL, and still pop off with a "Rafa is killer on clay..." comment. He doesn't even have cable for crying out loud!
OK - Giro - not sure what happened on Friday or Saturday's stages. I read the results and Sastre won on Friday, but didn't shake up the top five, the Saturday stage was won by a young rider who I hadn't heard of, and today was the TT. With nice weather for the start, and early starting Lithuanian TT champion won the whole thing, with Bradley Wiggins coming in only 1 second back. Menchov biffed in the last K (couldn't find a shot of the crash) but still finished in the top 10 overall and secured the win. Here's some pics: 1, 2, 3. But seriously, Rabobank, spring for a pink aero helmet, orange clashes.
Big news at Roland Garros, which of course we could not see since I don't have Tennis Network, and according to our only non family reader, didn't even show the Rafa match. The big Swede, Robin Soderling, upset the 4 time defending champion in 4 sets. And although I am cheering for Andy, I really kind of hope that this makes the path for Rogerer a little smoother to enable him to finally get his career Slam.
And of course, a big shout out to the nephew V, who, at the age of 13, can intelligently discuss the MLB, NBA, NHL, and still pop off with a "Rafa is killer on clay..." comment. He doesn't even have cable for crying out loud!
Friday, May 29, 2009
Yesterday's sports..ala Mom
Last night Lebron was all like "Is there anyone else on my team?" and everybody pretended they couldn't hear him, until he was "Fine I'll just do it myself" and he did. Then his team just kept drawing dream houses on big sheets of paper and Lebron picked up all their stuff and threatened to burn it.
Dan Haren has nice eyes, and got some stinkin' run support for once last night.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
GIro Update (stage 18) by star
Yippeeee, it's a zeppelin!
Garmin - Slipstream remembered it's riding this race to win, not just get to visit all of Italy from the back of a bike.
Good job Danny Pate for getting 3rd and being cute!
Iowa's pride and joy: Jason McCartney was all over the front of breakaway trying to make something happen, but ended up 7th.
Other then that Chechu was cute too. He was in a video with Lance before the stage.
No change in the GC.
Check this out: Great blog by Christian Vande Velde.
This is old, but check out his dog and what he thinks of NE. I don't know VdV, now it's not just the mole I need to get over.
Garmin - Slipstream remembered it's riding this race to win, not just get to visit all of Italy from the back of a bike.
Good job Danny Pate for getting 3rd and being cute!
Iowa's pride and joy: Jason McCartney was all over the front of breakaway trying to make something happen, but ended up 7th.
Other then that Chechu was cute too. He was in a video with Lance before the stage.
No change in the GC.
Check this out: Great blog by Christian Vande Velde.
This is old, but check out his dog and what he thinks of NE. I don't know VdV, now it's not just the mole I need to get over.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Damn Team Kobe...
That's all I'm gonna say. That and Lamar Odom finally pulled his head out of his box of ho-hos and realized he's a free agent this summer.
Good News for your eyeballs - Andy Roddick overcame his american-ness won his first round match. And the french love him?!? Sadly Blake lost.
Giro Update (stage 17) by star
I hope the time it takes me to write this post is not longer then the actual stage. Short and to the point. It was 83 k with one big mountain at the finish. It was only 23 k longer then the ITT.
Franco Pellizotti won the stage. He's pretty. It took him only 2:12 to finish the whole stage.
For a short stage, it looked painful. Ask de Luca or Menchov.
Carlos and Levi bombed, and I don't mean they are 'the bomb'. They didn't do very well.
Chechu hung out with the sprinters and finished pretty far back. I think he crashed in the stage. He's now 53rd, 1:31:48 back.
Franco Pellizotti won the stage. He's pretty. It took him only 2:12 to finish the whole stage.
For a short stage, it looked painful. Ask de Luca or Menchov.
Carlos and Levi bombed, and I don't mean they are 'the bomb'. They didn't do very well.
Chechu hung out with the sprinters and finished pretty far back. I think he crashed in the stage. He's now 53rd, 1:31:48 back.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
NBA Best in Show...Nugget(s)
The Nuggets were pretty impressive last night even with Carmelo all pukey and JR Smith being a schizophrenic genius/bonehead player, the Nugs managed to pull it out.
But Jeff Van Gundy, ex-coach, general all-around ass-hat announcer for ESPN drives me crazy. I wrote down one of the more inane things he yelled, regarding the new rule that if a player gets more than 7 technical fouls called on them in post-season play then they are suspended one game. He said " Seven...SEVEN! You can't just pick an arbitrary number out...it should be like 9 or 11" Huh? I guess he thought if he used the word "arbitrary" then everyone would ignore the ridiculous stupidity of his statement. Ugh.
Hubby compared him to the announcer Buck Lauglin (played by Fred Willard) in the movie Best of Show - Now tell me, which one of these dogs would you want to have as your wide receiver on your football team? or Doctor, question that's always bothered me and a lot of people: Mayflower, combined with Philadelphia - a no-brainer, right? Cause this is where the Mayflower landed. Not so. It turns out Columbus actually set foot somewhere down in the West Indies. Little known fact.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Giro Update (stage 16) by star
Update to the update:
OK, now I've actually watched the stage, so:
Carlos Sastre (I didn't know cowboys were cycling fans) is a monster and pulled out a can of 'look at me ride really fast uphill like I did last July".
Menchov might be the real deal, he kept on Deluca's wheel the whole way up, then took a second on the line. And kudos to Rabobank for replacing the orange with pink on the shorts to match the jersey.
Popo, poor Popo, I think he was trying to coast the last 2 k of the climb after getting caught by Carlos. I have that same feeling the second I walk though the door at work sometimes.
OMG, Denis smiled. It's a good thing they have cameras over there in Italy or I wouldn't believe it!
Poor Levi, I think he just pissed any chance of winning the Giro. Maybe he can get on the podium with an attack on one of the remaining stages and a phenomenal TT.
Here's the video of Levi, Lance and Jens. It's pretty good, but I don't understand about 25% of what Jens is saying and I watched it twice. But I did understand him back when he called me crazy! Pot calling kettle black!
The video from earlier with DZ mentioned him singing, sometimes I'm glad pictures don't have audio.
Chechu was solid today, he's now sitting 47th, 1:15:51 back.
OK, now I've actually watched the stage, so:
Carlos Sastre (I didn't know cowboys were cycling fans) is a monster and pulled out a can of 'look at me ride really fast uphill like I did last July".
Menchov might be the real deal, he kept on Deluca's wheel the whole way up, then took a second on the line. And kudos to Rabobank for replacing the orange with pink on the shorts to match the jersey.
Popo, poor Popo, I think he was trying to coast the last 2 k of the climb after getting caught by Carlos. I have that same feeling the second I walk though the door at work sometimes.
OMG, Denis smiled. It's a good thing they have cameras over there in Italy or I wouldn't believe it!
Poor Levi, I think he just pissed any chance of winning the Giro. Maybe he can get on the podium with an attack on one of the remaining stages and a phenomenal TT.
Here's the video of Levi, Lance and Jens. It's pretty good, but I don't understand about 25% of what Jens is saying and I watched it twice. But I did understand him back when he called me crazy! Pot calling kettle black!
The video from earlier with DZ mentioned him singing, sometimes I'm glad pictures don't have audio.
Chechu was solid today, he's now sitting 47th, 1:15:51 back.
Not much of a gearhead after all... by boo
Had the best intentions of watching the Indy 500, but man, car racing is boring. There was a minor crash on the first lap, so the yellow came out. So, I switched over to some Lifetime/Family Channel guilty pleasure chick flick while I tried to ride 100 miles on my stationary bike.
Dirtman did watch the whole thing, but he went out to see his folks for Memorial Day, so he can't help me with this report... There was one spectacular crash with two drivers that I didn't know. It was good that the car was facing away from the wall, that sure could have been messy.
But my favorite driver, Helio, won everything.
(Did you know there were multiple things to win? Me neither.) He won the pole. ( I did know about that.) And he won the pit competition. (makes sense.) And he won the race. And climbed the fence. How fun would that be.
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