R’s: Hot Streaks & Bold Moves
I intentionally held off writing about the Royals activity at the trade deadline because I didn’t want to be responsible for jinxing their hot streak. Fortunately, after winning 10 of 11, they’ve now lost 3 of 4, so any bad stretch is not on me. First off, what a great run! Right after I said they needed to go 6–3…
R’s: Uh Oh
I was worried this would happen. The Royals were the second-hottest team in baseball in the six weeks leading up to the All-Star Break. They were playing really good baseball and were in the heart of both the Wild Card race and the AL Central. Suddenly not only were the Royals keeping all their free agents to-be until the end…
ASG ’17
Some All Star Game, huh!?!? So good that I waited a full day before sharing my thoughts on it.[1] I’m being sarcastic: the game kind of sucked. Under most circumstances a tense, 2–1 game that goes 10 innings would be highly compelling. But it’s the freaking All Star Game in a year of the juiced ball. We want to see…
R’s: Time to Sell?
Logic often gets thrown out in sports in favor of emotion. We mask over flaws in players and teams we love because we love them. And we ignore brilliance among rivals simply because they wear the wrong color of jersey. The Kansas City Royals are in a dangerous situation when it comes to emotion right now. All of us who…
Weekend in KC
Another great weekend in Kansas City. Then again, aren’t all weekends in Kansas City great? At least when you’re visiting there. This trip was made more fun by it being the first full-family trip to KC in over three years. For my readers who weren’t involved in the weekend festivities, here’s a little run-down of what we did. We drove…
More Kid Sports and Weekend Notes
A pretty busy few days, anchored by kid sports. So we’ll start with those and add in the other fun things that were a part of our weekend. First off, C’s kickball season came to an end Thursday night. You may recall her team was in a three-way tie for first place going into the final game of the season.…
Words With Kids
We’ve reached the point in our parenting lives where the annoying moments begin to pretty closely balance the delightful moments. Our girls are all good, but they’re also getting older and hitting natural stages where they become more challenging, whether they’re good kids or not. We had a couple truly delightful moments over the past few days, though. Saturday night…
Baseball 2017, Ya’ll!
Yes! Baseball is here! As I type this, I’m sitting in front of the TV watching the Royals take on the Twins. There’s humidity in the air, we mowed the grass for the first time yesterday, there are mulch piles all around the neighborhood. Spring is here! Wait, what’s that in the forecast for Thursday? Snow with wind chills in…
Sports, Man
Sometimes sports are the worst. Sometimes they’re the best. There’s been a lot of both lately. Super Bowl Had I been fully neutral, that would have been an awesome Super Bowl. The league heavies get blasted early and look thoroughly overmatched by their young, brash, high-powered opponents. Then an epic comeback, featuring an all-time play, and the first overtime game…
Yordano
Sunday sucked. Not because of the weather. For the second-straight day it was in the 60s here, although it was a more dreary day than Saturday. No complaints there. Not because anyone in the family was sick. We are all reasonably healthy. Not because of L’s basketball game. Although we lost by 2, it was a good game and the…