The Arms Race in Bradenton
Gurs started blogging again. Blah Blah Blah. Take note of the new look. That's an older banner above (circa 2003) and I may or may not get to some housekeeping with that in the near future.
Onward. This evening marked the last day of my 8-week group tennis lessons at SPAC. The winter course was an amazing amount of fun and ended with a fantastic 2 on 2 dink 'em tournament. More spectacular may have been my 30 minute drive from work to SPAC that finished with a two minute locker room change and 50 cent racket rental. The series of events left me with three solid conclusions.
1. I play much better with a regular-sized racket (vs. extra long).
2. My car will break soon.
3. I would like to play more tennis.
Alright, let's slow down. I need to take a break so we can talk about something. One on one. It's about this site. You see, this new site isn't going to be about the minutiae of my life. Forget everything you read in the paragraph before. Instead I am going to hit the issues hard on the head. Seriously. This is going to be a hard-hitting blog.
The following section is about the Pittsburgh baseball Pirates. I consider this to be hard-hitting.
A few days ago consistently inconsistent Pirates starter Kip Wells (yawning above) was found to have a blood clot in his swollen throwing arm. This discovery most likely means he will have to undergo a surgical correction procedure on his arm, which will relieve him from duty for the remainder of the season.
This leaves the Buccos with three very young starters in Oliver Perez, Zach Duke, and Paul Maholm, who put together have a collective age of 69 (only 20 starts between Duke and Maholm). The last two spots in the rotation will somehow have to get split between Ian Snell (maybe good enough to start), Ryan Vogelsong (not good enough to start), Victor Santos (wasn't that great in Milwaukee), Sean Burnett (coming off double-arm surgery), and Tom Gorzelanny (not enough experience for majors yet).
On the flip-side, Kip Wells (yawning above) was a shaky 8-18 with a 5.08 earned run average last season. Perhaps the void can be filled.
Onward. This evening marked the last day of my 8-week group tennis lessons at SPAC. The winter course was an amazing amount of fun and ended with a fantastic 2 on 2 dink 'em tournament. More spectacular may have been my 30 minute drive from work to SPAC that finished with a two minute locker room change and 50 cent racket rental. The series of events left me with three solid conclusions.
1. I play much better with a regular-sized racket (vs. extra long).
2. My car will break soon.
3. I would like to play more tennis.
Alright, let's slow down. I need to take a break so we can talk about something. One on one. It's about this site. You see, this new site isn't going to be about the minutiae of my life. Forget everything you read in the paragraph before. Instead I am going to hit the issues hard on the head. Seriously. This is going to be a hard-hitting blog.
The following section is about the Pittsburgh baseball Pirates. I consider this to be hard-hitting.
A few days ago consistently inconsistent Pirates starter Kip Wells (yawning above) was found to have a blood clot in his swollen throwing arm. This discovery most likely means he will have to undergo a surgical correction procedure on his arm, which will relieve him from duty for the remainder of the season.
This leaves the Buccos with three very young starters in Oliver Perez, Zach Duke, and Paul Maholm, who put together have a collective age of 69 (only 20 starts between Duke and Maholm). The last two spots in the rotation will somehow have to get split between Ian Snell (maybe good enough to start), Ryan Vogelsong (not good enough to start), Victor Santos (wasn't that great in Milwaukee), Sean Burnett (coming off double-arm surgery), and Tom Gorzelanny (not enough experience for majors yet).
On the flip-side, Kip Wells (yawning above) was a shaky 8-18 with a 5.08 earned run average last season. Perhaps the void can be filled.
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