UGLY, and beautiful

UGLY is the only word to describe the cubs win today. sloppy pitching, sloppy fielding. they cubs deserved to lose today with all their struggles. 12 innings of back and forth vs the pirates was almost too much to bear. next time cleaner guys, ok? please?

however, on a bright note, joe crede hit a grand slam today in the sox home opener vs the twins. gorgeous! and he even took a curtain call, the first one ive seen him take. keep it up joe! play better so SF will be willing to pay a premium for you and you can show off you skills in the bay area. i'll come watch every week! even if its for a team that lost their 4th in a row today and are now 1-6 on the season. wow, thats bad.


cubs 10, pirates 8
twins 4, white sox 7

bizarro day

these are not good signs. i think the apocalypse is rapidly approaching:

• ryan dempster gets his first W as the cubs defeat the brew crew 6-3
• kerry wood gets his first major league save
  
• john danks got run support in his first start. this is the same guy who went 0-5 at the beginning of last season despite pitching pretty decent. of course, the universe still hates him, as he didnt get the win. that went to dotel, who pitched a single out. not fair.
  
• new kids on the block, now into their last 30s/early 40s, are reuniting.
  

im scared. what's this alternate reality i'm living in?

brewers 3, cubs 6
white sox 2, indians 1

swamp feet

i blew off work today to go snowboarding today. it was hey you's idea. she's on spring break this week, and wanted to get in one last day. we drove up last night, stayed at rustling wood, went to heavenly (the nevada side) and drove home.

it was a good day. the slopes were slushy, but still good. and i feel so much better about myself when im out there. hey you made me do not 1 but 2 blue runs. i made it ok. im still improving. and she was very patient and continued to give me pointers and waited for me.

we stopped at the oliver garden in vacaville for dinner. i had a craving. we had eaten breakfast before we left, and only had some minor snacks in the car until dinner. the restaurant was interesting, to say the least. a vibrant cross section of america. lets leave it at that before i get petty.

walking to the car after dinner, the air in vacaville was nasty, it smelled like manure. apparently vacaville is a cow town. not the most pleasant smell to walk into. EVEN NASTIER, however, was the smell in my car when we got in. i immediately noticed the rankness and thought that maybe we had left monday's chinese food or some cheese out of the cooler. when asked, hey you had an answer right away -- it was her nasty swampy snowboarding boots. how such a gross smell from such little boots permeated my entire car is unbelievable. and completely disgusting. seriously, drop those boots on the insurgents in iraq and call it a day. all the troops can just come home.

horse show

mopey boy and i went down to pebble today, to see hey you's horse show. it was my first time down there. very interesting the people who participate and watch those shows. lots of rich people, obviously. its not a poor man's sport.

and lunch at the club at pebble was interesting. i was definitely the token asian in the restaurant dining room. my $25 open faced steak sandwich was delicious though.

the pictures of hey you are posted on my flickr. i had to practice timing the slow shutter speed of my camera to get good pics. i ended up with quite a few pics of her horse's butt, or approaching the jump. i SO need a new camera.


here's the best picture i took today. unfortunately, its not of hey you. its of a 13 year old leaping over a height of 4'9" on $750,000 horse. no, all my zeros are in the right place there. what horse is worth a 4-bedroom house in berkeley? apparently this one is.



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Originally uploaded by sharynkaryn

spring training

so i havent blogged anything about spring training, mostly cos we all know it means little to nothing. but as it comes to a close this week, here are a few random thoughts about my team:

• boyfriend rich hill didn't look so hot his first few outings. but its ST, so its pretty inconsequential. im encouraged by his last start, which was pretty decent
• alex cintron's stint as a cubbie is over. not surprising, as we already had a surplus of infielders who were better than cedeno. and that guy made the team, pretty unbelievable.
  
• the brian roberts deal is not going to happen. hardly shocking. while baseball trades/deals are complicated, if they are going to happen, they never take this long. im glad that the guy who played hard (despite injuries and a heart condition) is the one who's going to be manning 2nd base. go DE-RO!
  

and here are some random thoughts about happenings around the league

• can i get a job putting on 20 lbs a year for 19 mill per year the way miguel cabrera did?
• i'm happy joe crede has a job, but i would have preferred for it to have been with SF, so i could watch him live more often. apparently i'm the only one who likes crede in the bigs while fields is sent down. and we all know how impartial i am. or not.
  
• will modern technology be able to measure how bad the SF giants are projected to be this year? $123 million ace barry zito got beat by the giant's own minor league team today. that's pretty pathetic. hey guys, do you want me to play? i can lose to the fresno grizzlies too, and i bet for cheaper as well. at least you can save some money