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Making up for lost time and a less than exciting morning. Here is an eating contest that Mike & Mike had on ESPN and ESPN Radio earlier today. I think this is because Mike Golic lost the March Madness Bracket to his co-host… pretty funny stuff, but definitely not for the light stomached people who like their food.
The trophy presentations after the contest was over. It was funny that they had an ESPN nurse and were sponsored by Pepcid AC. By the way, good luck to those who are on the airplane with Mike & Mike as they travel to Kentucky later today to cover the Kentucky Derby.
Well we are a month into the season and here is where I stand on my (revised) goal. There is a constant update on the left sidebar about the Yankees and Blue Jays but I just thought I’d give you guys an update so far with yesterday being a month gone by.
For the Yankees I have caught all 29 games so far and here are some random stats. 23 (79.3%) of those games I have caught on the YES Network which at times I agree can be a bit painful to watch but maybe they are growing on me since I am such a fan of their team. I caught 2 (6.9%) games on radio (one when our apartment had no TV and the other one was the night I was driving down to DC with my roommates for the Cherry Blossom Festival), caught 2 games on ESPN (one vs. the Jays in the opening series for the season and one against the Red Sox in Fenway), there was one (3.45%) that I watched on MLB.TV from Silver Spring, Maryland which is quite unique since I live here and don’t often get a chance to go out of the viewing area during the season and just the other day against the Indians there was a game on TBS. I don’t remember if that game was blacked out on TBS and I watched it on YES but I have it on TBS in my sheet.
For the Blue Jays, it had started off real well when I had watched 8 of the first 9 games but since then it has only been 11 out of 19 games. Overall percentage is down to 67.86% and I still have 62 more games of theirs to catch to reach the goal. Obviously MLB.TV has been the dominant viewing preference because they aren’t on tv much here but I did catch them twice on YES (7.14%) and once on ESPN (3.57%). They have to find ways to start scoring runs again in this tough AL East. I knew New York (even with their injuries), Boston and Tampa would be tough but Baltimore really surprised me this month. Two losses in a row for the Jays where they only scored 1 run on the Red Sox but on the other hand, only allowed 3 runs total in the two games. The pitching has been solid (Halladay with 4 straight complete games but only one win to show for it)… so the offense really needs to start picking this up soon.
I had planned to write about this last night but I was just too tired from class and coming home. I did become certified to coach soccer yesterday from NSCAA. It went by faster than I thought and Coach Tim O’Donohue who taught the course really did well. The only other experience I had with him was on the field when he is a passionate, fiery person to say the least but seeing him off the field and talking to him about soccer and just hearing what goes on in his head during a game was awesome. I’m thinking of maybe helping out with the Academy Eagles next year – maybe I’ll talk to Coach McNulty this week and see what she thinks (btw, she’s still the best coach I’ve ever met).
Anyways back to what I was gonna write about. It’s a remarkable story of sportsmanship unlike any other. My sister has it up from yesterday (link) and I’ll throw in an except from what she wrote.
While playing in a College Softball game (the loser would be eliminated from the playoffs), Sara Tucholsky scored her first home run (ever) but collapsed near the first base because of a knee injury. According to the first-base coach, her team could not help her because she would be called out, and even if a pinch runner was put in the home run would just count as a single. Unbelievably, two girls from the opposing team — vying for the playoff spots — picked Sara up and helped her touch the remaining bases and brought her back to home base.
In this day and age, where most people don’t even bother helping others in every day situations that would have no effect on them, these amazing girls helped the opposing team in a competitive setting, just so the results would be fair and Sara and her team would get what they deserved, while knowing they would be eliminated from the playoffs. – link
Below is a thumbnail of the two girls carrying their opponent around the bases. I read a couple of stories on it yesterday and one that really caught my eye was by George Vecsey from the NY Times where he asked whether the Oakland Athletics would have carried Kirk Gibson around the bases after he hit the home run off of them or really if we would have seen it anywhere else in professional sports. Maybe it’s a gender thing that the girls would do it the guys wouldn’t, maybe I’m just jumping to conclusions but it’s a great story nonetheless.
Update (1:50 PM): ESPN has a video up of the 3 girl involved and you can view it below.
