I called Heather O'Reilly making the difference in the Canada game.
I called Will Middlebrooks hitting a three run home run yesterday at Fenway to tie the game at Nine.
Am I Miss Cleo...No..
But let's grade my predictions from January for the year of 2012...A to F...feel free to leave your own grades as well.
1.
Golf explodes, Tiger Woods wins TWO majors and between Tiger, Rory
McElroy and company, golf and the PGA will see their interest go up.
C+ ...for now... I don't think golf has really exploded...If Tiger wins the PGA I will give myself a B. Basically I thought Tiger would win again this year. He has, but hasn't been as dominant as I thought he would be. He has been in contention, just wasn't quite as good as I thought.
2.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the Daytona 500. The streak that everyone
talks about in NASCAR, the fact that Dale Jr. hasn't won in so many
races, will end after the first race of the season.
A - Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished second in the Daytona 500 and is currently number one in the points standings and won a race to end his winless streak this year. I thought Dale Jr. would do well in 2012. He has far exceeded my expectations, but I think my high expectations were on point. If he had actually won the 500 I would get an A+.
3. NIKE will make NFL jerseys popular to wear again. I see this as the biggest DUH of all my predictions.
Incomplete - NFL hasn't started yet
4. The Miami Heat will win the NBA Championship.
A ... Wasn't really going out on the limb other than that people didn't want to see LeBron win it.
5. People will be talking about Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps again...the London Olympics are here.
B + ...Not a bold enough prediction for an A. But it was very true...
6. The US Women's Soccer Team WILL WIN GOLD at the Olympics. Canada wins Bronze.
A+ ...not surprising that the US won the gold. But I had Canada winning the Bronze. That Canada winning the Bronze makes it an A+
7. The Mets will finish in last place in the NL East.
C- ...The Mets have exceeded my expectations for this year by a lot...but are starting to lose again so maybe this grade improves. Progress report is a C-
8. Rex Ryan will shut up, or we will stop listening, if we haven't already.
Incomplete - No football yet.
9.
The Red Sox will rebound and make the playoffs, The Yankees won't win
the World Series. I don't know who will win the World Series, maybe the
Red Sox. All I do know is that baseball's popularity will continue to
slowly decline.
D...Yeah the Red Sox suck...Yankees look pretty good...sort of incomplete, but the Red Sox suck. Anyone want Josh Beckett?
Anyone?
I can't hear you...
10. The Knicks and Rangers bring back some life
to Madison Square Garden in the spring. The Rangers go to the Stanley
Cup Finals
D -...Linsanity didn't last and I don't know what happened to the Rangers...literally...I think they made the playoffs
11. The Jerry Sandusky case only gets worse.
A ...Yeah Penn State looks a lot worse now...and their football program...not good with all those sanctions.
12. College Sports continue to deal with scandal, but not as much as in 2011.
A - ... Thanks Bobby Petrino!! But that wasn't quite like Penn State
13.
Courts rule that West Virginia has to play in the BIG EAST for the
next few seasons. Conference Realignment calms down, although there
will be plenty of rumors involving BIG EAST football schools. Those
rumors will also have some solid foundation to them.
F ... West Virginia is not in the BIG EAST anymore...Realignment has sort of calmed down, but not much
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Liked this movie
I really liked the movie "Senna" that was on ESPN last week. It's about a former Formula One Race Car driver. It's quite interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOQLeqRcgKc
I really would like to win the lottery one day and race cars to see what it's like. All I know about race car driving is that it's really expensive...especially when you are pushing the limits trying to win.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOQLeqRcgKc
I really would like to win the lottery one day and race cars to see what it's like. All I know about race car driving is that it's really expensive...especially when you are pushing the limits trying to win.
They send managers for a Nature Walk
I've decided it's time to rank the players most likely to cause a manager to run into the woods "Nature Walk" and get a soccer ball... An expensive soccer ball.
I'll never forget the time Erin Clark kicked a ball way down in Shenkman and than I went and got it. Then as I was running back with it she kicked another one past me. Clark doesn't make this list though.
Players most likely to make a manager go on a Nature Walk...or the players you want in Kickball Home Run Derby
1. Charno
2. Devin
3. Shoey
4. Mika
5. I can't just have four, so for Five I will go with Sam
The top four players might terrify a manager on a hot day.
The very sight of those players in a shooting line makes managers run like Forrest Gump.
One time Mika kicked one that I thought was going to go high so I jumped to see if I could stop it that way, and she miss hit it so badly it rolled under me. That may be the only time Mika didn't kick a home run.
At one point I got bored last year at practice and started to count who hit the ball over more than anyone else. Charno won that contest by a mile.
I'll never forget the time Erin Clark kicked a ball way down in Shenkman and than I went and got it. Then as I was running back with it she kicked another one past me. Clark doesn't make this list though.
Players most likely to make a manager go on a Nature Walk...or the players you want in Kickball Home Run Derby
1. Charno
2. Devin
3. Shoey
4. Mika
5. I can't just have four, so for Five I will go with Sam
The top four players might terrify a manager on a hot day.
The very sight of those players in a shooting line makes managers run like Forrest Gump.
One time Mika kicked one that I thought was going to go high so I jumped to see if I could stop it that way, and she miss hit it so badly it rolled under me. That may be the only time Mika didn't kick a home run.
At one point I got bored last year at practice and started to count who hit the ball over more than anyone else. Charno won that contest by a mile.
Mika
So Mika is one player I had met before she joined the team. I drove her to the airport after her visit the weekend of the South Florida game in 2010. I got up really early, maybe around 6:30am and drove to Dulski's apartment to pick her up to bring her home. Mika did not show the signs of someone with a huge personality at the time. I'm sure we made small talk, but I have no idea what we spoke about, other than that a former player who I never knew, but had watched, named Sarah Stanczyk, was someone Mika knew.
The most eventful part of the trip was right before Mika got out of the car. I wished her well and for some reason instinctively went, "You have everything?" I don't remember if I looked under her seat or went "You sure you have your wallet? your ipod? your CELL PHONE?" but thankfully my instincts were correct. Mika's phone was under her seat and thankfully it was found before anyone went too far.
By the time pre-season had started I'm not sure if she remembered who I was or not. It's always funny with freshman and how awkward it can be meeting them. I think I actually tried to be distant with the freshman since I knew I'd only be here for a small part of their time at UConn. However, I didn't remain distant all that long.
I don't think my first memory of Mika came until we had our 90 minute interview with her and Charno. It was hilarious and mostly because of Mika. She has a personality. Like jalapenos, she spices things up.
That was the worst line I've ever written.
Mika was so good at making stuff up on the fly on camera which is a really hard thing to do. She was just freaking funny. No one else could make eating a gummy worm off the ground seem so awesome. No one else could have pulled off the Halloween costumes and getting candy or vegetables in August.
She once ordered me as a side on a food order. That was quite unforgettable. I don't know what possessed her to do that, but it did make for an interesting conversation with the restauraunt we ordered from.
"We don't have what Bussey ordered?"
"Just ignore that, she was just messing around"
They did call about things like that. I don't remember if I brought it up with them, or they brought it up with me, but I did explain to them to ignore it.
I probably should have just crossed it out, but quite frankly I thought it was too different, or funny to actually do that.
Mika made something routine and boring, less boring by doing this. People with great personalities and people who are really funny can take the boring and routine situations in life and make them fun and interesting. Mika definitely has that skill and I think it's an important one. Imagine how boring it is without her around. She brings a lot with her personality. Who wouldn't miss Mika?
Mika and Charno helped make things fun for me by willingly putting themselves on camera often.
Originally I was going to have Mika Irish Dance after Drea, because she was the only person I thought would be crazy enough to do it. Mika still tried too.
Irish dancing was not her thing, but she is the first and only player to my knowledge to have ever done the inchworm into the goal at Morrone Stadium.
Mika's voice is amazing. I hope I can watch her sing the anthem before a game. She tried out for a show on NBC and wanted to sing the National Anthem before a basketball game.
Mika and I had a miscommunication about her singing the National Anthem at one point though. I was asked if I could get a player to recite the Pledge of Allegiance before a big Men's Basketball game on ESPN. I knew that the only player who would realistically consider doing it would be Mika. She said yes, but she misunderstood that it was the Pledge and not singing the National Anthem. On Facebook her status read something like "Singing the National Anthem before the Men's Game Tonight on ESPN." I quickly corrected her and as it turned out she had no interest in reading the pledge from the jumbo tron. She just wanted to sing the Anthem. To me, both are nerve wracking. But reading seems easier than singing...
I thought Mika was so crazy that I was sure she was the one who was doing the dancing in the talent show instead of Dre.
Mika was also famous for calling "cross bar" and then hitting anything but that.
I do think she has a very powerful shot, but I would not pick her for the cross bar challenge.
I know I am forgetting a lot about Mika at this point. I've already been away so long, and thinking about so many different things that I've actually sort of begun to forget a few things. I really have to sit and think to come up with stories and memories.
One thing I really want to do though is put Mika Bussey and Kemba Walker in the same sentence.
You can now google "Mika & Kemba"
Sounds like a show for Bravo.
Mika pretty much came up with that story by herself. Charno helped a little I think, but Mika went with it and tried very hard to make it believable. Mika made it seem as if some people on the team, especially Dulski and Celeste, really believed that Kemba traveled to Michigan to see Mika. (you can now google Kemba traveled to Michigan to see Mika)
I believed that Dulski believed Mika so I made sure to interview Dulski on the matter. As gullible as Dulski is I'm very happy that within a few minutes Dulski seemed to be more "realistic" and that Mika was full of it.
Mika also had one of my favorite parts of a pre-game video and it was wishing Cory a "Happy Rosh Hashanah."
Anyway, Mika is awesome. I may have forgotten a few things, but in summary she makes things fun. I wish her all the luck in the world with a music career and hope the rest of her soccer career goes well. If you don't like Mika there is something wrong with you.
Now go get a you tube account and like her video.
Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i86m_Qp6Af4
The most eventful part of the trip was right before Mika got out of the car. I wished her well and for some reason instinctively went, "You have everything?" I don't remember if I looked under her seat or went "You sure you have your wallet? your ipod? your CELL PHONE?" but thankfully my instincts were correct. Mika's phone was under her seat and thankfully it was found before anyone went too far.
By the time pre-season had started I'm not sure if she remembered who I was or not. It's always funny with freshman and how awkward it can be meeting them. I think I actually tried to be distant with the freshman since I knew I'd only be here for a small part of their time at UConn. However, I didn't remain distant all that long.
I don't think my first memory of Mika came until we had our 90 minute interview with her and Charno. It was hilarious and mostly because of Mika. She has a personality. Like jalapenos, she spices things up.
That was the worst line I've ever written.
Mika was so good at making stuff up on the fly on camera which is a really hard thing to do. She was just freaking funny. No one else could make eating a gummy worm off the ground seem so awesome. No one else could have pulled off the Halloween costumes and getting candy or vegetables in August.
She once ordered me as a side on a food order. That was quite unforgettable. I don't know what possessed her to do that, but it did make for an interesting conversation with the restauraunt we ordered from.
"We don't have what Bussey ordered?"
"Just ignore that, she was just messing around"
They did call about things like that. I don't remember if I brought it up with them, or they brought it up with me, but I did explain to them to ignore it.
I probably should have just crossed it out, but quite frankly I thought it was too different, or funny to actually do that.
Mika made something routine and boring, less boring by doing this. People with great personalities and people who are really funny can take the boring and routine situations in life and make them fun and interesting. Mika definitely has that skill and I think it's an important one. Imagine how boring it is without her around. She brings a lot with her personality. Who wouldn't miss Mika?
Mika and Charno helped make things fun for me by willingly putting themselves on camera often.
Originally I was going to have Mika Irish Dance after Drea, because she was the only person I thought would be crazy enough to do it. Mika still tried too.
Irish dancing was not her thing, but she is the first and only player to my knowledge to have ever done the inchworm into the goal at Morrone Stadium.
Mika's voice is amazing. I hope I can watch her sing the anthem before a game. She tried out for a show on NBC and wanted to sing the National Anthem before a basketball game.
Mika and I had a miscommunication about her singing the National Anthem at one point though. I was asked if I could get a player to recite the Pledge of Allegiance before a big Men's Basketball game on ESPN. I knew that the only player who would realistically consider doing it would be Mika. She said yes, but she misunderstood that it was the Pledge and not singing the National Anthem. On Facebook her status read something like "Singing the National Anthem before the Men's Game Tonight on ESPN." I quickly corrected her and as it turned out she had no interest in reading the pledge from the jumbo tron. She just wanted to sing the Anthem. To me, both are nerve wracking. But reading seems easier than singing...
I thought Mika was so crazy that I was sure she was the one who was doing the dancing in the talent show instead of Dre.
Mika was also famous for calling "cross bar" and then hitting anything but that.
I do think she has a very powerful shot, but I would not pick her for the cross bar challenge.
I know I am forgetting a lot about Mika at this point. I've already been away so long, and thinking about so many different things that I've actually sort of begun to forget a few things. I really have to sit and think to come up with stories and memories.
One thing I really want to do though is put Mika Bussey and Kemba Walker in the same sentence.
You can now google "Mika & Kemba"
Sounds like a show for Bravo.
Mika pretty much came up with that story by herself. Charno helped a little I think, but Mika went with it and tried very hard to make it believable. Mika made it seem as if some people on the team, especially Dulski and Celeste, really believed that Kemba traveled to Michigan to see Mika. (you can now google Kemba traveled to Michigan to see Mika)
I believed that Dulski believed Mika so I made sure to interview Dulski on the matter. As gullible as Dulski is I'm very happy that within a few minutes Dulski seemed to be more "realistic" and that Mika was full of it.
Mika also had one of my favorite parts of a pre-game video and it was wishing Cory a "Happy Rosh Hashanah."
Anyway, Mika is awesome. I may have forgotten a few things, but in summary she makes things fun. I wish her all the luck in the world with a music career and hope the rest of her soccer career goes well. If you don't like Mika there is something wrong with you.
Now go get a you tube account and like her video.
Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i86m_Qp6Af4
Monday, August 6, 2012
Been awhile..This is Too Unoriginal
I don't like criticizing UCONN, or it's athletic department, especially it's marketing department, because I love the marketing department.
But the hash tag of BleedBlue that I saw on posters and other places is one of the worst hash tag ideas and marketing slogans I have ever heard.
Duke could get away with that as they are the Blue Devils.
The Football Giants could get away with it because they are known as "Big Blue."
UCONN can not get away with it. UCONN is known for having the color Blue in it's logo, but it's not something that people associate with the word blue around the country.
BleedBlue is PAINFULLY UNORIGINAL and not very specific. I think it's awful. This Is UCONN Country was good. Bleed Blue sucks.
I'm not sure that UCONN could do a Blue Out game.
True Blue sucks. I hate that slogan as well. Those are stupid T-Shirts, that did not make me think of UCONN.
I know BleedBlue keeps things short, but I think there are enough smart people at UCONN that could have come up with a better twitter hash tag. I bet athletes who use twitter could have come up with something great.
But the hash tag of BleedBlue that I saw on posters and other places is one of the worst hash tag ideas and marketing slogans I have ever heard.
Duke could get away with that as they are the Blue Devils.
The Football Giants could get away with it because they are known as "Big Blue."
UCONN can not get away with it. UCONN is known for having the color Blue in it's logo, but it's not something that people associate with the word blue around the country.
BleedBlue is PAINFULLY UNORIGINAL and not very specific. I think it's awful. This Is UCONN Country was good. Bleed Blue sucks.
I'm not sure that UCONN could do a Blue Out game.
True Blue sucks. I hate that slogan as well. Those are stupid T-Shirts, that did not make me think of UCONN.
I know BleedBlue keeps things short, but I think there are enough smart people at UCONN that could have come up with a better twitter hash tag. I bet athletes who use twitter could have come up with something great.
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