Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Commentary, Part 2
It will be interesting to see how high the Red River crests this year. Our snowfall is about normal and the snow-water ratio isn't outrageous, but I'm betting it will be over 40 feet this year.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Commentary
Okay, I admit it. I don't write nearly enough to call this a "blog", but it's not like anyone reads this stuff anyway. So, I will comment on recent happenings.
Topic One - Team USA and the World Baseball Challenge
It drives me nuts that the media (newspaper, TV, etc.) comes from some sort of perspective that because it's Team USA, it automatically means we should expect a gold medal. It's as though nobody else plays baseball or that no other team can have a better day than ours. It's so egocentric and plain wrong. Just because you put a team of multiple all-star players together doesn't mean that team will win every time. It's a classic case of "Steinbrenner Syndrome". He thinks he can BUY a championship for New York. What few people acknowledge is that there is more to baseball than having the best "talent".
In baseball, you need to have the players string hits back-to-back in order to produce runs. Every guy in the lineup can go 1-for-3 on a given day, but if those hits aren't strung together or no homeruns are hit, there won't be any runs on the board. This wasn't entirely a group of underachieving prima donnas (like Team USA basketball, for example) either. You have to have timely hitting.
Topic One - Team USA and the World Baseball Challenge
It drives me nuts that the media (newspaper, TV, etc.) comes from some sort of perspective that because it's Team USA, it automatically means we should expect a gold medal. It's as though nobody else plays baseball or that no other team can have a better day than ours. It's so egocentric and plain wrong. Just because you put a team of multiple all-star players together doesn't mean that team will win every time. It's a classic case of "Steinbrenner Syndrome". He thinks he can BUY a championship for New York. What few people acknowledge is that there is more to baseball than having the best "talent".
In baseball, you need to have the players string hits back-to-back in order to produce runs. Every guy in the lineup can go 1-for-3 on a given day, but if those hits aren't strung together or no homeruns are hit, there won't be any runs on the board. This wasn't entirely a group of underachieving prima donnas (like Team USA basketball, for example) either. You have to have timely hitting.
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