Not much is up for the next week. Can't wait til next Sunday, though---I can hardly believe Art in the Park is almost here.....it's gonna be a lot of fun, I guarantee it! [And once again---if you're gonna be near Appleton next Sunday, come to City Park!! And say hi if you see me!!]
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okay
The week began with the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, where the best players in each league play in what is technically an exhibition contest, but decides which league's champ gets the more games in the World Series. The American League all-star squads haven't lost since 1996, and didn't lose again, as the AL won the 2009 tilt 4-3. Carl Crawford won the Most Valuable Player award mainly by robber Brad Hawpe of a home run, and the Rays skipper, Joe Maddon, was the winning manager.
Personally, I always liked baseball's all-star game, probably better than all the other contests of their ilk put together. The game means something, the other games do not, and are basically a show. The Pro Bowl is probably the worst event of them all, played after a Super Bowl, an afterthought more than anything else. Although next season, they will play the Pro Bowl the week before the Super Bowl at the same site as The Big Game. An appetizer before the main course.
But how can we not recap the week of sports and not talk about Tom Watson's run at the British Open?
For the longest time, it looked like Watson at age 59, a decade older than any major golf tournament winner in history, would hoist the trophy. Many thought that Watson would fade away time and time again in the final round, but he hung on until running out of the gas in the playoff against Stewart Cink. It was a fine effort by Watson, a truly historic run. But as we often see in the sporting world, even a considerable effort by an undermatched team, or someone too old, or too young, is a story within itself.
Thank you Tom, for making this weekend one to remember.
- Location:Pinellas Park, FL
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content - Music:British Open winding up...congrats to Stewart Cink
from our last show at the skate park, 6-26-09. this was taken with our friend's digital camera, so he couldn't get the entire song.
I look like a dork. and it's weird to be watching myself. by weird I mean extremely disconcerting.
- 17:25:48: Heat without the humidity? It's possible! It is so nice when it's 95, 15% humidity, and not a cloud in the sky.
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- 07:24:03: July 18th begins....81 degrees out, no rain yesterday...beginning to think something's very odd with the weather this summer..
- 07:29:36: Tom Watson, yes THAT Tom Watson (who had duels in the 70s and 80s w/Nicklaus), is one of the leaders of the British Open with Steve Marino..
- 07:30:53: I'm old enough to remember Walter Cronkite's last space launch coverage, the Apollo-Soyuz mission in '75, couple of months shy of 4 then.
- 07:31:45: I knew something was going on as there were a bunch of numbers on the screen, then a rocket took off...
- 07:32:45: But I didn't really know what Russians were, and what made them different from us..hey, I wasn't even 4 yet.
- 11:46:28: Tom Watson still leading the British Open...if he wins Sunday, he'd be the oldest winner of a major by over a decade.
- 11:46:53: Julius Boros was 48 when he won the PGA Championship in 1968.
- 16:21:23: So Tom Watson still leads The Open after 54 holes...got a feeling he's going to win come tomorrow.
- 18:46:19: #Rays and Royals underway in less than a half hour..
- 22:19:10: US leading Panama in Philly "dos a uno" (2-1) in the "primero timepo extra" (1st half of extra time) after a "Penal" (Penalty kick)...
- 22:23:34: #Rays face Zack Greinke (well on the way to a Cy Young in this tweeter's opinion) and survive, beating the Royals 4-2...
- 22:29:39: Will do "Sports Shorts" tomorrow, as a major development is brewing in the sports world across the pond, as many of you know..
- 22:31:09: @daveiddreams No honor amongst thieves...
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( How long was it!? )
Bergstrom-Mahler's arts festival is tomorrow. Art in the Park is next Sunday in Appleton---and I'm proud to say, I will be volunteering!!! Park greeter from 12:30-2:30PM----say hi if you see me!!!!
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