((HT: MLB.com))
When Mariners closer Fernando Rodney does well, he pulls out an arrow from his quiver and sends a shot into the air celebrating his closing...
Only problem... when you pitch more than an inning, this can happen if you don't keep it up
Boom...
Karma...
Monday, July 21, 2014
Kane And Toews Have A Dance Off
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The Chicago Blackhawks have a fan convention every year in the summer...
Think Dragon-Con for hockey fans...
Part of it is players reading mean tweets about themselves to fans and another part is a question-and-answer session. Part of it had to do with the new two contract guys- Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews- and it devolved from there...
Dancing...???
The HQ isn't sure you would call it that...
The Chicago Blackhawks have a fan convention every year in the summer...
Think Dragon-Con for hockey fans...
Part of it is players reading mean tweets about themselves to fans and another part is a question-and-answer session. Part of it had to do with the new two contract guys- Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews- and it devolved from there...
Dancing...???
The HQ isn't sure you would call it that...
OSG Formula One: Life On The Edge
((HT: NBCSN/F1))
For the remainder of the Formula One racing season, we're going to talk about very fast cars that travel the globe. There are a couple of different angles to pay attention to- the top...
Nico Rosberg won on home soil holding off Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton- who had to start 20th because of an brake failure in qualifying.
Here's the highlights...
Rosberg's points lead is now 14 heading into the Hungarian Grand Prix- the official half-way point of the season on the calendar.
And the bottom:
The other part of the dynamic is the team championship. Marussia, Sauber, and Caterham are fighting it out for 9th, 10th, and 11th. If Marussia holds their space, it could be worth $50-million extra dollars. There are three columns that are the breakdown for payouts in the sport. The percentage pile (last year, it was $350-million) meant that 10th was worth four-percent and 11th got nothing.
The previous year's performance column would help Marussia since they placed top 10 last year and could net them up to $35-million extra. That's what makes Sauber and Caterham's pace pick up just a bit.
Joe Saward's blog breaks it down as to how all the financing works.
So, Caterham had its two drivers finish 16th with Kamui Kobayashi:
"16th was about as much as we could have done today – we didn’t quite have the performance to catch Bianchi so now it’s on to Hungary next week for the last race before the August break.”
And 18th with Marcus Ericsson:
“I started from the pitlane so it was always going to be a struggle today. Obviously the safety car on lap one helped but I had to serve the ten second stop / go we’d incurred for breaking parc fermé rules last night after the issue with the power unit straight after the safety car came in, and from that point I was having to try and play catch up for the whole race."
Sauber had the chance to grab a point but Adrian Sutil had to retire and Esteban Gutierrez only finished 14th:
“The whole team did a good job over the weekend. From Friday on we developed the car as best we could. However, 14th position is not satisfying. I was fighting the entire race from the beginning to the end, trying to gain positions and keeping cars behind me. At the moment we are missing the pace to be able to fight with the others in front of us. There was not much that we could do. We need to keep working and focusing on our performance so we can be more competitive in the next races."
For the remainder of the Formula One racing season, we're going to talk about very fast cars that travel the globe. There are a couple of different angles to pay attention to- the top...
Nico Rosberg won on home soil holding off Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton- who had to start 20th because of an brake failure in qualifying.
Here's the highlights...
Rosberg's points lead is now 14 heading into the Hungarian Grand Prix- the official half-way point of the season on the calendar.
And the bottom:
The other part of the dynamic is the team championship. Marussia, Sauber, and Caterham are fighting it out for 9th, 10th, and 11th. If Marussia holds their space, it could be worth $50-million extra dollars. There are three columns that are the breakdown for payouts in the sport. The percentage pile (last year, it was $350-million) meant that 10th was worth four-percent and 11th got nothing.
The previous year's performance column would help Marussia since they placed top 10 last year and could net them up to $35-million extra. That's what makes Sauber and Caterham's pace pick up just a bit.
Joe Saward's blog breaks it down as to how all the financing works.
So, Caterham had its two drivers finish 16th with Kamui Kobayashi:
"16th was about as much as we could have done today – we didn’t quite have the performance to catch Bianchi so now it’s on to Hungary next week for the last race before the August break.”
And 18th with Marcus Ericsson:
“I started from the pitlane so it was always going to be a struggle today. Obviously the safety car on lap one helped but I had to serve the ten second stop / go we’d incurred for breaking parc fermé rules last night after the issue with the power unit straight after the safety car came in, and from that point I was having to try and play catch up for the whole race."
Sauber had the chance to grab a point but Adrian Sutil had to retire and Esteban Gutierrez only finished 14th:
“The whole team did a good job over the weekend. From Friday on we developed the car as best we could. However, 14th position is not satisfying. I was fighting the entire race from the beginning to the end, trying to gain positions and keeping cars behind me. At the moment we are missing the pace to be able to fight with the others in front of us. There was not much that we could do. We need to keep working and focusing on our performance so we can be more competitive in the next races."
Sunday, July 20, 2014
The Rockford Files And Football
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James Garner passed today at the age of 86...
Frankly, the HQ didn't realize he was 86 and we also didn't realize he was a purple heart recipient for the time he served this country. We would like to thank him for all that he did in his time with us here on this plane...
So, as a tip of the hat to Garner, we found a "Rockford Files" episode that involves football and has Dick Butkus...
The HQ will still watch the Files when we can and we still maintain that Jim should have always been with Gretchen Corbett's character, Beth Davenport...
James Garner passed today at the age of 86...
Frankly, the HQ didn't realize he was 86 and we also didn't realize he was a purple heart recipient for the time he served this country. We would like to thank him for all that he did in his time with us here on this plane...
So, as a tip of the hat to Garner, we found a "Rockford Files" episode that involves football and has Dick Butkus...
The HQ will still watch the Files when we can and we still maintain that Jim should have always been with Gretchen Corbett's character, Beth Davenport...
D-Backs Booth Goes All Star Wars
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It was "Star Wars" day in Phoenix as the Diamondbacks took on the Cubs...
And the HQ has always known the guys in the booth for Fox Sports Arizona to be good sports about, well, sports...
So there's always the introduction for the game to get the action started
Here's the intro with Berthiaume and Brenly playing their parts in the building...
Well done...
It was "Star Wars" day in Phoenix as the Diamondbacks took on the Cubs...
And the HQ has always known the guys in the booth for Fox Sports Arizona to be good sports about, well, sports...
So there's always the introduction for the game to get the action started
Here's the intro with Berthiaume and Brenly playing their parts in the building...
Well done...
HQ Finds Wily Mo Pena And He Can Still Crush A Baseball
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He's playing over in Japan with the Orix Buffaloes and did this in their All-Star Game
Hanshin's Shintaro Fujinami got to laugh about that meatball he served...
Let's face it...
That ball was crushed- even if it was dead pull-crushed...
He's playing over in Japan with the Orix Buffaloes and did this in their All-Star Game
Hanshin's Shintaro Fujinami got to laugh about that meatball he served...
Let's face it...
That ball was crushed- even if it was dead pull-crushed...
IndyCar Toronto Goes Twice On Sunday
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The rain came plowing through the streets of Toronto yesterday and the IndyCar series was supposed to have two points races over a weekend. The whole weekend got condensed after two false starts and matching red flags.
How bad did it get...??? The pace car didn't even escape...
And in the second restart, Will Power ended up backwards...
The races were supposed to go two hours or 85 laps each.
The weather has moved everything to 65 laps and 90 minutes each Sunday.
But the cars didn't even get out of Lap 1 before wrecking everyone from 10th on back as rookie Luca Filippi got into Simon Pagenaud. The first race was red flagged Sunday as well while they cleaned up Turn 10.
The rain came plowing through the streets of Toronto yesterday and the IndyCar series was supposed to have two points races over a weekend. The whole weekend got condensed after two false starts and matching red flags.
How bad did it get...??? The pace car didn't even escape...
And in the second restart, Will Power ended up backwards...
The races were supposed to go two hours or 85 laps each.
The weather has moved everything to 65 laps and 90 minutes each Sunday.
But the cars didn't even get out of Lap 1 before wrecking everyone from 10th on back as rookie Luca Filippi got into Simon Pagenaud. The first race was red flagged Sunday as well while they cleaned up Turn 10.
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