Well, it's pre-season again, a time when everyone's team has a clean slate.
As usual, for the past 31 years, I am rooting for my San Diego Chargers. For starters, I was sure that the Chargers had released Darren Sproles, but much to my relief, he's still a Charger (yeah!).
Now, this rookie running back, Ryan Mathews ... he's pretty damn good (and cute too!) in this game I am watching (against the hapless Dallas Cowboys, who by the way, finally scored an offensive touchdown in this, their third pre-season game).
Best play of the first half? After Rivers throws an interception to Barry Church who runs it down the field toward a touchdown, but the last player Church has to get by is Philip Rivers, who fucking tackles him down at the 8 yard line!!!
I love watching Rivers play, even in pre-season, he has his game face. The man never stops trash talking and there's always an emotional high watching him play. I am also liking newcomer Brandyn Dombrowski.
Showing posts with label San Diego. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Diego. Show all posts
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Friday, April 18, 2008
"Touch"
One of my most favorite jazz fusion pieces of the 70's. I have most of Klemmer's stuff. I used to like to play his Touch album while lying on the floor, in the dark, with my then top of the line surround speakers (not to mention I wired speakers into every room of my house) blasting. I was a complete audiophile back then, living on the beach in northern San Diego, and this was my favoriate jazz artist at the time.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Welcome To The Hall, Goose
An interesting article about today's steroid use in baseball from newly elected Hall of Famer, Goose Gossage, with these quotes:
I know most that read my blog are aware that I am a sports pig (definition = someone who's into all sports to the point of nauseum to others) and that I occasionally post about teams I like.
Of course, I'm a San Diego Charger fan, but I am also a San Diego Padres fan. I lived in North County (north of San Diego, includes communites that were known as Leucadia, Cardiff, Encinitas, and Solana Beach) from 1975 through 1982, with a brief stint in Hawaii and Los Angeles. It ws during that time that I became a Charger and Padres fan.
As for baseball, though, that was a different story. Having family that hailed from Brooklyn, I was raised as a Dodger fan. I know exactly where I was when listening on the radio when Don Drysdale set a record with 58 consecutive scoreless innings, and I know where I was when listening to Orel "Bulldog" Hershiser break it 20 years later. But, living in San Diego, when Dick Williams took over the Padres, who were a hapless throwaway team before Mr. Williams came along, I would get all the Padres information on the nightly news, hence the interest. I can't remember exactly what year it was, but the team had gone 8 games in a row with wins, so I started paying attention. Next game, they win, making it 9 games. Then there was the 10th game, and the 11th game was at home (and if memory serves me well, it was against the Dodgers, whom later became known as the L.A. Crybabies after that game) which I went to, being the sports pig that I am/was!
What was very interesting was the fact that the stadium was not very full in the late 1970's and early 1980's, so you could just show up at a game, buy any seat available, and sit down in the expensive seats. I still prefer the upper deck in most stadiums, because I like to see the whole field in play when the ball is pitched and hit. Anyway, the point I am getting to is that as a San Diego Padres fan, I got to see a lot of Goose Gossage, who was voted into the Hall of Fame yesterday, along with Dick Williams, who was the coach of the Padres, and the one responsible for getting them to the World Series in 1984.
Goose was a relief pitcher, and at the Padre games, they would give out a pin with Goose's face on it whenever he would save a game.
I know he will have a Yankee jersey represented in the Hall, but I will always remember him as a Padre, and the best relief pitcher I ever saw.
"I've been in that situation, trying to prolong my career with the money that was out there to be made at this time in baseball. I can't sit here and say that I would not have done it," he said. "But had I done it, I'm going to face the consequences. And the consequences are, that whether they belong in the Hall of Fame or not, the records can't stand.
I know most that read my blog are aware that I am a sports pig (definition = someone who's into all sports to the point of nauseum to others) and that I occasionally post about teams I like.
Of course, I'm a San Diego Charger fan, but I am also a San Diego Padres fan. I lived in North County (north of San Diego, includes communites that were known as Leucadia, Cardiff, Encinitas, and Solana Beach) from 1975 through 1982, with a brief stint in Hawaii and Los Angeles. It ws during that time that I became a Charger and Padres fan.
As for baseball, though, that was a different story. Having family that hailed from Brooklyn, I was raised as a Dodger fan. I know exactly where I was when listening on the radio when Don Drysdale set a record with 58 consecutive scoreless innings, and I know where I was when listening to Orel "Bulldog" Hershiser break it 20 years later. But, living in San Diego, when Dick Williams took over the Padres, who were a hapless throwaway team before Mr. Williams came along, I would get all the Padres information on the nightly news, hence the interest. I can't remember exactly what year it was, but the team had gone 8 games in a row with wins, so I started paying attention. Next game, they win, making it 9 games. Then there was the 10th game, and the 11th game was at home (and if memory serves me well, it was against the Dodgers, whom later became known as the L.A. Crybabies after that game) which I went to, being the sports pig that I am/was!
What was very interesting was the fact that the stadium was not very full in the late 1970's and early 1980's, so you could just show up at a game, buy any seat available, and sit down in the expensive seats. I still prefer the upper deck in most stadiums, because I like to see the whole field in play when the ball is pitched and hit. Anyway, the point I am getting to is that as a San Diego Padres fan, I got to see a lot of Goose Gossage, who was voted into the Hall of Fame yesterday, along with Dick Williams, who was the coach of the Padres, and the one responsible for getting them to the World Series in 1984.
Goose was a relief pitcher, and at the Padre games, they would give out a pin with Goose's face on it whenever he would save a game.
I know he will have a Yankee jersey represented in the Hall, but I will always remember him as a Padre, and the best relief pitcher I ever saw.
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