Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Stanley Cup Finals Game One
|
_________________ |
only three more wins needed for the Red Wings to win the Cup!
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Lament of a Life Long Tigers fan
The Tigers are so bad this year they make me want to puke. 
If the starting pitching is good (a rare event!) the hitters cannot hit their way out of a wet paper bag. If the hitters are pounding the ball, the starting pitching sucks. On the extremely rare occasions when they can get hits and the starting pitching is good, the bull pen sucks. And very few of them can field worth a cup full of poop. We have lost games (such as last night's opener in Arizona) due to truly awful fielding and errors. And none of them seem to be either willing or able to play small ball - make sacrifices, try to beat out a grounder to first, steal bases, bunt, etc. Cap it off by a lot of questionable decisions by Leyland and this team just plain sucks.
A lot of Tigers teams have sucked over the years. Take the 2003 team - please! But I do not know when any Tigers team has infuriated me as much as this one. Now I wish I had not bought tickets and I have seen the Tigers most years going back to Tiger Stadium (I skipped some years around 2003, and who could blame me?). So not wanting to see them is a really big statement coming from me.
Holy crap they stink.
Thank God for the Red Wings!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Though they have lost their last two games...
If the starting pitching is good (a rare event!) the hitters cannot hit their way out of a wet paper bag. If the hitters are pounding the ball, the starting pitching sucks. On the extremely rare occasions when they can get hits and the starting pitching is good, the bull pen sucks. And very few of them can field worth a cup full of poop. We have lost games (such as last night's opener in Arizona) due to truly awful fielding and errors. And none of them seem to be either willing or able to play small ball - make sacrifices, try to beat out a grounder to first, steal bases, bunt, etc. Cap it off by a lot of questionable decisions by Leyland and this team just plain sucks.
A lot of Tigers teams have sucked over the years. Take the 2003 team - please! But I do not know when any Tigers team has infuriated me as much as this one. Now I wish I had not bought tickets and I have seen the Tigers most years going back to Tiger Stadium (I skipped some years around 2003, and who could blame me?). So not wanting to see them is a really big statement coming from me.
Holy crap they stink.
Thank God for the Red Wings!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Though they have lost their last two games...
Mahler's Ninth
Dan and I drove to Detroit last night to hear the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the baton of guest conductor Mark Wigglesworth performing Mahler's Ninth Symphony.
WOW, was it ever wonderful to hear that music live!
It was glorious, simply glorious! 
The DSO is just awe inspiring whenever they play Mahler. They just pound their talent, hearts, and souls into it.
I peaked at their schedule for next year, and they will be performing Mahler's First under the baton of their new maestro.
Raucous swaggering badass brass. 
I'm already all over it.
WOW, was it ever wonderful to hear that music live!
It was glorious, simply glorious! The DSO is just awe inspiring whenever they play Mahler. They just pound their talent, hearts, and souls into it.
I peaked at their schedule for next year, and they will be performing Mahler's First under the baton of their new maestro.
Raucous swaggering badass brass. I'm already all over it. Sunday, May 11, 2008
Tigger passes away
Our elderly cat passed away peacefully in his sleep. Since it is Mother's Day, and cold and rainy besides, my husband took pity on me and buried him this morning, on the edge of the woods, in the middle of a huge patch of purple wild violets. And then put a huge rock on top of his grave so coyotes and other scavengers cannot dig his body back up. 
I love pets, but their life spans are so short. Tigger and our dog and our youngest son were all babies together. The cat is gone, the dog is so old and feeble that every time he sneezes he falls down. My son is not yet a man grown.
I love pets, but their life spans are so short.
Tigger and our dog and our youngest son were all babies together. The cat is gone, the dog is so old and feeble that every time he sneezes he falls down. My son is not yet a man grown. Friday, May 9, 2008
Tigger
I think my elderly cat is about to die. He's not really eating or drinking today, and he is sleeping nearly constantly. In the last week his face has suddenly aged...as if he has gone from 80 to 90 in the course of a few days.
He has had a long and good life.
But I am upset for myself and Dan and especially the kids.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
