To experience a stage of Le Tour sounds fucking awesome. Lots of pain and suffering, but I can imagine the speed and the pace.
I wonder if I’ll ever ride in a group that large. Or up a mountain that big. Or feel the suffering that the professionals would.
I should be riding more. So should you.
In a week’s time, the 2008 Tour de France will commence. Start reading your news about it here.
O’s in Japan. I think. I’m not sure exactly what it’s saying.
Yakyu!
Euro 2008 for football, world-wide style starts today!! Here’s the schedule on ESPN channels.
Enjoy!
O’s v Red Sox
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.
Celebrated Marge’s birthday watching the Orioles lose to the Red Sox, 6-3. These were really good seats and I haven’t sat this close since InitTech corporate seats along the third base side. Oops, we did sit behind home plate last time for the remainder of a rain delayed game.
Red Sox nation was in full effect. They were cheering for Manny Ramirez hitting his 500th homer. Boy, the place was crawling with lousy Red Sox fans. I think I hate them more than Yankees fans.
Was fun to heckle them and their team even in the losing effort. They would taunt back and say, “Scoreboard,” or “Who’s in last place?” but the best retort is “Who cares?” Show ’em it don’t mean a thing really and you don’t label your life around a silly game.
Still, it’s fun to drink beer, yell at millionaires and enjoy stupid, fun times.
Let’s check in with some of the sports teams we follow on this blog.
The Baltimore Orioles are still hovering around first place in the American League East. The Hiroshima Carp are 3 games under .500 just short of the bottom of the standings in the Central League. Sheffield Wednesday are very much in the running for relegation in the English Championship League. Ajax is battling for first place in the Dutch Premier League. Paris Saint-Germain is going to be relegated to the French Division 2.
The Ravens get a second league quarterback. I don’t know how Tampa Bay did.
Official website for the official BrowserMetrics Japanes baseball team, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. Just the idea of a carp being a good team symbol/mascot is funny. Look at the other teams in the Nippon Professional Baseball league and they’re all birds or something fierce. They swoop down and eat carp from the pond. Is it any wonder that they are stuck to the bottom of the standings?
In the NCAA office pool, I'm hanging around in mid-pack, but about 22
points off the lead. Yet, if my final pairing of teams, Memphis-Kansas,
with Memphis pulling it off, I think I can bounce into a money position.
There's not many people ahead of me picking this combination for the
finals. I think it's around 4 with just a couple picking Memphis as
winner.This would be sweet to make up for the $20 loss in Fat War.
The annual rite of spring, the NCAA office pool, has come. Just like the annual swallows returning to Capistrano, every year millions are bet on these 33 college basketball games. It’s dumb and amusing and you’ll always lose. I guarantee it.
I got Memphis over Kansas in the finals, 74 to 68, with NC and Duke rounding out the final four. Why do I keep picking these losers? As long as Memphis takes it, I think I can get some money. I don’t know anything about the college game today, so that I don’t have to worry about analysis of what teams are good. I’m just picking, because every thing is a push.
Go Memphis! (I have no idea where that school is or even if they are any good.)
Is that the biggest upset ever? Giants 17 Patriots 14.
