jim owens
For a Cubs fan the very worst type of Summer involves bullpen issues. When severe, it is simply too painful to watch games literally tossed away at the last possible moment that could easily have been won. Compound this with almost uniform under-performance by the big-time position players that the baseball-bloggers needed so so bad. […]
I wasn’t in Southern Nevada at all in February, so February weather was apparently moved into all of March. Wet, cloudy, cool and windy intermixed with the occasional sunny and almost warm days that are more typical of March down here. Something to do with that whole el nino and la nina thing I guess. […]
Ah, sigh. It has been a long time since my last post. In the intervening weeks I’ve been back and forth between Park City and southern Nevada perhaps a half-a-dozen times. The streets in front of both places have been under construction related to civic projects for most of that time. We did catch the […]
What a long strange trip it has been. The original plan was for a quick in-and-out for two people over three days to catch a ball game and use up some airline credits that were in need of being used up by a certain date. Simple right. Not so much. The trip had evolved. In […]
All of my teams are bad. The Chicago Cubs, Syracuse Men’s basketball, Paris Saint Germain, Barcelona, the Las Vegas Raiders and the Utah Jazz. Such a weird hodgepodge. Well perhaps they aren’t all bad, but none of them have much of a chance of allowing their fans to bask in the sweet warm sunshine of […]