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Will The Third Be Number One?
I wrote a column for the Kitsap Sun about the Seahawks’ quarterback situation yesterday morning BEFORE Pete Carroll announced that Russell Wilson has a shot to start. Now it’s a three-man race with Wilson, the third-round draft choice from Wisconsin; Matt Flynn, the free-agent acquisition from Green Bay; and Tarvaris Jackson, the incumbent starter. In the column, I speculated that Flynn will win the job hands down over Jackson and that Wilson will be the backup. Jackson will be released before the season starts, saving the Seahawks the $4...
read moreGo 2 Girl Turns 21 Today
It’s my little girl’s 21st birthday today, and I’m not going to get sentimental like I did when she turned 18, but still… For anyone who has kids – and I tend to think it’s more magnified with girls than boys – it’s hard to believe when they reach the age of an adult. I think you’re officially an adult at 21, though I wonder if I’ll ever feel like I’m one, and I’m almost 55. Even though I said I wasn’t going to get sentimental, I still managed to tear up when I saw Brooke at P.F. Chang’s in Bellevue last night....
read moreThe SeaGals And My Inner 15-Year-Old
I admit it, I can’t keep up. I don’t try to keep up. I know that if you want to really be with it in today’s media world, you need to post stuff right when it happens or right after it happens. What the hell am I talking about – in this instance, the Sea Gals tryouts. They were held last Sunday, a full five days ago, and here I am writing about what happened now. I was one of nine judges at the “competition”. I planned to post a story about what it was like Monday morning. But my daughter came home from Pullman, and I went...
read moreJudging Sea Gals, Wish Me Luck
This Sunday I’ll be judging the Sea Gal finals at the West Club Lounge at Century Link Field. Why was I chosen to do this? I have no idea. Along with nine other judges, I’ll help determine which 24 to 32 girls will be dancing and cheering at Seahawks’ games this fall. I’ve been told by Sea Gals director Sherri Thompson that it will be a fun evening but I need to take it seriously. This will be difficult because I don’t take many things seriously, but I will do my best, I promise, wink, wink. To that end, I asked people on Facebook...
read moreThe Weekend Recap
I’m in Sisters, Oregon, preparing to head to Bend to play golf with Drew Bledsoe at Tetherow. I’m writing a story about Bledsoe for Cascade Golfer magazine, so the plan is to play golf, do an interview, see what he’s up to, that kind of thing. I know he’s busy making wine and being a dad (he’s got four kids). Should be a fun time. Over the weekend, I played in the Central Oregon Shootout. Everyone has a partner, and mine was Joe Slye, a fellow Coug. We played at the Resort Course at Eagle Crest, Aspen Lakes and...
read moreGod Help Me Not Be *That* Idiot
Question to parents of kids who play sports – how do you do it? How am I going to do it? What am I referring to? Watching your kids play basketball or baseball or any other sport without going crazy and turning into a little-league parent, complaining about this, bitching about that. Last night I got my first taste of it when my 8-year-old boys played in a basketball game at the Bellevue Boys and Girls Club. Before last night they had played in many basketball and baseball games, but no one was keeping score. When kids traveled or...
read moreCelebrating The Go 2 Twins’ 8th Birthday
Hey Mikey and Stevie, happy birthday! I know you won’t read this today or tomorrow or this week or even next month. You don’t even know that your dad has a website. But maybe several years from now, you’ll read what I’m about to write. I basically just want to tell you monsters how much I love you. I have a million people tell me that I’m crazy to have 8-year-old kids when I’m 54 and about to turn 55 in June. They tell me how happy they are that their kids are grown and they can do whatever they want. They don’t know how in the...
read moreI Admit To Rooting For Phil Humber
Yes, it’s true. From the 8th inning on, I rooted for the opposing pitcher to throw a perfect game against the Mariners. I felt kind of guilty about it but figured what the heck – I’ve never seen a no-hitter or a perfect game in person. And my 7-year-old kids were with me. That probably had something to do with it. Rather than have us walk out of Safeco Field after yet another dismal performance by the home team, I wanted to walk out after seeing something of historical significance. Until yesterday, a perfect game had happened only 20...
read moreHeading To The M’s Game
I didn’t watch much of the Mariners’ game last night because I was busy with my kids, playing basketball in the driveway and going to Dairy Queen later on. Got Willie the Go 2 Pup an ice-cream cone. Had a Caramel Delite Blizzard myself. Noticed that the Mariners struck out 15 times in a 7-3 loss to the White Sox. Dustin Ackley has struck out three times in two straight games. I don’t know what to make of the Mariners. I’m trying to hang in there with them, but their lineup doesn’t look greatly improved at this point. And outside of...
read moreFiggy Homers! Are You Kidding Me?!?!
Chone Figgins led off last night’s game against Cleveland with a home run. And he did it on the eighth pitch from Derek Lowe. This, according to baseball seamheads who know more about this crap than I do, was a perfect at-bat. He worked the count before he went deep. It set a terrific tone for the rest of the game. And then you know what happened two batters later – Ichiro homered to right-center field too. So that was cool. Jason Vargas was given a 2-0 lead, and he nursed it to a 4-1 victory that improved the Mariners’ record to 7-6 and...
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