Amazing Baseball Call

If you are in need of a little levity today, check out this insanely accurate prediction in a recent Mariners game.  The call as it happens is good stuff.  I was laughing and grinning and a bit giddy just listening to it, and I don’t care squat about the Mariners.

Cool.  Sometimes being a sports announcer sounds like SO much fun.

Jealousy

Yep, that’s the best definition of my feelings when seeing the attached photo of my friend Don and his wife as they visited venerable Wrigley Field on Friday 8/21.

I’m glad he got to do it.  I wish it was me….

Don & Mary Visit Wrigley

What a great experience at Wrigley Field and Chicago!  It was really nippy temperature wise and we did it all:  ate a hotdog at the game and sang “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during the 7th Inning Stretch in memory of Harry Caray….glad we did it and I can now mark off this item on my “Bucket List”!  Holy Cow!  Cubs Win!  Thought I would send these as you were interested in this really Legendary stadium…hope all is well and look forward to heading to Lubbock for the game this weekend!

Rematch in US Championship

McAllister Park, TX will face Chula Vista, CA in the US Championship, a rematch of the pool play matchup they had earlier this week.  Should be a good one!  Hopefully the stud hitter for TX (batting .700) that missed their first matchup will have conquered the fever and be ready for this game.

Whoever wins, good luck kiddoes!  Have a great game!

McAllister Park in Little League US Championship

It’s way cool a Texas team is in the US championship again.  McAllister is one of the leagues Lubbock Western had to get past in their jaunt to the US Championship game two years ago.

It’s doubly cool that the manager of the team, Mike Shull, is a former Texas Tech pitcher from the early 80s.  I didn’t know that until Orel Hershiser mentioned it the other day as Texas won against Chula Vista, CA. 

Hershiser is pretty cool covering these games.  He’s got the perfect combination of passion for the game and ability to communicate teaching points accurately in a limited amount of time.  His insights and tips during this coverage are spot on in my opinion.  Orestes has the passion, too, but does not give the really meaty insights into the plays and pitches that Hershiser does.  I’ll admit that during this year and last year I’ve learned at least a couple of things from Hershiser within a one minute discussion with a baseball in his hand that professional coaches have not been able to communicate to me in hours and hours of trying.  Some people got it, some people don’t.

It’s no wonder Hershiser is a major league level pitching coach talent.

And by the way, GO TEXAS!

Methinks The Cubs Are Toast

Well dang, they’re six games out of the division and five games out of the wild card with 45 games to go.  They play lots of their last games against teams with losing records…like the Padres…against whom they’ve just dropped two in a row.

Nah, I don’t see it happening.  Will be thrilled if it does, but it just doesn’t look good.

Shallowater football opener is less than two weeks out, and Tech the week after that.  I’m not sayin’…I’m just sayin’….

This ‘n’ That

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything.  Summer doldrums I guess.

Hey, the Cubs are in 1st place!  Not sure how long that will last with the injuries they seem to be racking up and the acquisitions the Cards are making, but for this day at least I’ll take it!  To even be within sniffing distance of first after the year they’ve had up to this point is quite an accomplishment (Ramirez out extensively, Zambrano and Lee out for a while, Lilly and Soto and Dempster all currently on the DL, Soriano and Bradley in long hitting slumps).

Did you notice the article in the AJ on 7/27 where they mentioned the new Ag museum in Lubbock?  They have like 25 acres

New Monterey Baseball Coach

My money’s on Kent Meador, but I could be wrong.  KLBK says it’s a Lubbock native, Coronado grad, Tech grad and currently highly successful coach in the Houston area.  Meador fits that bill, and I think his 5A team went to the state playoffs regularly.  They were state bound in 2007 and this past year dropped out in the regional quarterfinals.  He’s won awards for coaching in the Houston area and coached several Houston area all-star teams.  I think he’s been a finalist for several coaching jobs on the South Plains recently such as Frenship.  Sounds like a Lubbock native trying to get back home.

Anyway – might be wrong but that’s what I think tonight.  We’ll all find out tomorrow.

If I’m right — a Coronado grad in charge of Plainsmen baseball….how they gonna take that? 

Pearson & Odom Named Academic All-State

Justin Pearson and Westin Odom of the Shallowater Mustangs were named to the 2009 THSBCA 2A Academic All-State baseball team! Kudos JP and Odie! Way to GO guys!

Danbury Defeats Holliday in Title Game

Danbury beat Holliday 6-5 in the 2A championship game Friday.  This was Holliday’s 12th trip to the state tournament, but they have yet to win a championship.

Also at the state tournament, Miles won the state championship in A with a win over Windthorst.  Miles is the team that knocked Lockney out of the playoffs and, interestingly enough, were the THIRD seeded team from their district!

Holliday Advances

Holliday defeated White Oak 6-5 in 8 innings in the state semifinal, so they advance to Friday’s championship game.  They won with a walkoff hit into right field that scored a runner from second with two outs in the bottom of the 8th.

Looks like our Mustangs were knocked out by a pretty darn good baseball team…