OK, so I'm coming off a cold, with a monster headache, which makes me grumpy anyway, but this week in sports has not made it any better, believe me.
My bracket for the NCAA's totally blew up in my face. "nuff said.
Baseball: Stud closer JJ Putz down with a muscle strain that caused him to blow his first save of the year. On the DL for at least two weeks. Along with the other weaknesses in the bullpen, this can bode nothing but ill (witness four losses in a row to the O's, of all people).
Then came the hip discomfort of newly acquired ace pitcher Erik Bedard, causing him to be scratched from his scheduled second outing in Baltimore (his former team home). Thankfully, that turned out to be nothing, at least THIS time. But his history of injuries the past few years is not terribly promising.
Basketball: See the above regarding the NCAA's.
NBA: "NBA? Who are they?" The NBA is dead to me now, and I think that everyone knows why. I will never watch another NBA game on TV after the regular season is over this year, nor buy tickets to any game, nor buy any of their merchandise, and will purposely boycott any and all companies that sponsor the NBA with my personal dollars. (I will, however, continue to support our local WNBA team).
My major entertainment for this summer is going to be watching and listening to how the Commish and others in the NBA hierarchy try to weasel their way out of the coming embarrassment (during the NBA finals in June) that will be the City of Seattle vs Seattle Supersonics Basketball Club, NBA, et al. It could get very interesting.
The weather: I know, I know, I live in Seattle, OK. But even I would like to see the sun at least one day a week. They tell me it is coming tomorrow or Friday. I hope so.
Football: The 'Hawks just might be going to really suck this year. Since it is Holmy's last year, they should strive to do just the opposite.
And, finally, they have come up with a name for Seattle's new MLS team and it is.......drum roll,please. Almost exactly the same as the old minor league team..Seattle Sounders FC (the FC is all that is new).
I am a 50 something health care professional transplanted to Seattle from SoCal in 2001 (and, before you ask, no, I don't want to go back). My tastes in sports are pretty eclectic, but in order of preference, I guess they would be baseball, hockey, basketball, football--col lege and pro/men and women alike. Teams I "HATE": USC (I went to UCLA); University of Michigan (born and raised in Columbus OH to a large family of OSU alumni/alumna e), and--probably most of all--the d***ed Yankees. I have worked in a variety of capacities at the MLB, NBA and NFL venues here in Seattle and at UW (hey, what true sports fan could pass up the possibility of getting paid to do something you would have done anyway (and had to pay for it)?)
