If the season ends tomorrow what plans have you made besides watching the NCAA tournament and results of the other tournaments to get you through to the start of Valpo's next basketball season?
Baseball season, working some baseball concessions all summer, finding a more full-time work gig, either ignoring or potentially not caring about who gets the GOP nod to fend off Obama, and then settle in for another strong Valpo basketball season.
I'm ready for some football.0-11 & 1-10 the last two seasons should result in at least a 2-9 season next year. Onward and upward. :-*
Hike The Ice Age Trail for the next two months forget about BBall ;D
I plan on the season not ending tomorrow.
I hope it doesn't end tomorrow either but if it does we have the Aussie Football season starting soon and we get Ryan home too, lots to be excited about here :thumbsup:
Quote from: VUfan on March 13, 2012, 10:16:04 PM
Hike The Ice Age Trail for the next two months forget about BBall ;D
Wow! Are you trying to become an IAT Thousand-Miler?
Hope springs eternal as spring training heats up! I love baseball season because I don't have to live and die with every game, there's always tomorrow! Go A's!
Quote from: koala on March 14, 2012, 03:07:49 AM
I hope it doesn't end tomorrow either but if it does we have the Aussie Football season starting soon and we get Ryan home too, lots to be excited about here :thumbsup:
Enjoy having Ryan home, but please be sure to return him to us next season. :thumbsup:
After VU wins the NIT, I plan on watching Brandon Wood's team making a deep run into the NCAA tourney (hopefully very, very deep)
Quote from: govalpogo on March 14, 2012, 08:56:45 AM
Hope springs eternal as spring training heats up! I love baseball season because I don't have to live and die with every game, there's always tomorrow! Go A's!
I will do the same. Might be a long year though for your A's with what my Rangers and the Angels have done ;)
I think I am getting rid of cable once basketball season is over.
Quote from: valpotx on March 14, 2012, 09:58:51 AM
Quote from: govalpogo on March 14, 2012, 08:56:45 AM
Hope springs eternal as spring training heats up! I love baseball season because I don't have to live and die with every game, there's always tomorrow! Go A's!
I will do the same. Might be a long year though for your A's with what my Rangers and the Angels have done ;)
Sigh...very true, but that's why hope "springs" eternal. I'm sure reality will eventually "fall" on Oakland or San Jose or wherever they end up. Knowing the A's my hopes may "summer salt" away quickly this year too. I don't expect them to have a great season, but this year's young team should be fun to watch. If it gets that bad, I'll just watch Moneyball again. :)
I'll be training for my 14th consecutive Chicago Marathon as part of the Opportunity Enterprises marathon team.
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Quote from: setshot on March 13, 2012, 10:08:44 PM
I'm ready for some football.0-11 & 1-10 the last two seasons should result in at least a 2-9 season next year. Onward and upward. :-*
I know this comment is tongue-in-cheek, but it is somewhat positive for setshot.
I'm also looking foward to football season, and a few Rockies games with the family.
Quote from: okinawatyphoon on March 14, 2012, 10:02:40 AM
I think I am getting rid of cable once basketball season is over.
Does no cable and summer in Minot equal :cheers:
Quote from: covufan on March 14, 2012, 04:36:09 PM
Quote from: okinawatyphoon on March 14, 2012, 10:02:40 AM
I think I am getting rid of cable once basketball season is over.
Does no cable and summer in Minot equal :cheers:
As long as there's no flooding, then yes! :thumbsup:
I will finish the Ice Age Trail sometime this early summer. Also I will root for the Twins beats rooting for the Sox, Cubs and a flock of birds and the Brewers.
Watching baseball. Cubs fan, recently moved to Missouri. Plan on catching a game in Stl and KC. Also making a trip out to San Fran to see the giants beautiful park among other things. Hoping the tourney has some good games, too, like the first night of the first four
Gotta root on Butler and Detroit!
After the tourney is done, I am hoping to watch WAY less TV. Gonna really try and work on my house this year and catch up on everything I ignored while I was lost in Crusader Nation :thumbsup: It seems like year after year, I get more and more bored with baseball.
Quote from: MattCarter on March 15, 2012, 12:21:07 PM
After the tourney is done, I am hoping to watch WAY less TV. Gonna really try and work on my house this year and catch up on everything I ignored while I was lost in Crusader Nation :thumbsup: It seems like year after year, I get more and more bored with baseball.
Boooooo, terrible comment! ;)
Matt, what's wrong with baseball on the radio while you're doing some of the housework? Granted, you like to see the sport more, but at least this allows you to do the housework and other things, and it's "WAY less TV".
I hope to play a bunch of disc golf - a new hobby. Hopefully some church league softball too. I'll have to decide what sports to follow. VU baseball or softball perhaps? Will surely check out at least a game or two of VU spring sports. MLB? Who's managing the White Sox these days? Maybe some MLS? Or I wonder what European football I get on Comcast.
We'll probably buy a house here sometime, too.
Quote from: agibson on March 17, 2012, 07:45:52 PM
MLB? Who's managing the White Sox these days?
Nolan Ryan's favorite little buddy ;)
Quote from: MattCarter on March 15, 2012, 12:21:07 PM
After the tourney is done, I am hoping to watch WAY less TV. Gonna really try and work on my house this year and catch up on everything I ignored while I was lost in Crusader Nation :thumbsup: It seems like year after year, I get more and more bored with baseball.
I too get more and more bored with baseball! I don't know why. I like to root for the White Sox, but I don't really care if they don't achieve much success.
The White Sox are in a worse rebuilding situation than the Cubs are. The White Sox still have Kenny Williams, who insists we "stay out of White Sox business". The Cubs may be rebuilding, but Dale Sveum has more coaching experience in the majors than Robin Ventura has coaching experience of any kind.
That clip is played pretty often at Ranger games. It is definitely played at least once each White Sox series in Arlington, so it will be fun to see if it is this year with Ventura managing. ;)
Quote from: valpotx on March 19, 2012, 11:46:19 AM
That clip is played pretty often at Ranger games. It is definitely played at least once each White Sox series in Arlington, so it will be fun to see if it is this year with Ventura managing. ;)
That's how the Rangers will announce him, "And the manager of the Chicago White Sox is (cue Nolan beating the crap out of) Robin Ventura".
I always liked watching Ventura play, especially at bat when the bases were loaded. However, if you're going to charge an old man on the mound, you better make sure you do more than get your head in a headlock and pummeled several times.
Quote from: valpotx on March 19, 2012, 11:46:19 AM
That clip is played pretty often at Ranger games. It is definitely played at least once each White Sox series in Arlington, so it will be fun to see if it is this year with Ventura managing. ;)
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/09/rangers-wont-show-clip-of-nolan-ryan-beating-up-robin-ventura-when-white-sox-are-in-town/ (http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/09/rangers-wont-show-clip-of-nolan-ryan-beating-up-robin-ventura-when-white-sox-are-in-town/)
QuoteInstead of regularly playing the 1993 clip of Ventura charging the mound and getting beaten up by a 46-year-old Ryan–which they've shown on the ballpark jumbotron before nearly every game–the Rangers will not show the video during their opening-weekend series against the White Sox.
Quote"We may show it on the day it happened as part of the 40th anniversary moments, but that's probably it. I just thought this offseason that we didn't need to be showing that anymore. I watched how St. Louis treated Stan the Man during the playoffs and that's how we should treat Nolan as the face of the franchise. We'll celebrate his no-hitters and other moments.
I also don't think it's right for us on our Opening Day to show a fight, and then that whole weekend we're going to treat Robin Ventura with respect. He's the manager of the White Sox. We don't need to do anything like that."
That would be too bad if they stopped showing it altogether. I go to between 20-30 games each year, and every game it is shown, the crowd gives a huge round of applause lol. They really get worked up to see the brash 46 year old Texan beat the crap out of the cocky young rookie. I don't think people realize outside of Texas how big the legend/shadow of Nolan Ryan is throughout Texas...
I won't bother to respond to this. ;)
C'mon, Stl... Respond to it. We could probably use a good laugh. I mean right now all I'm hearing on tv is about Peyton Manning supposedly signing with Denver and the Illinois Primary tomorrow. I could use a good laugh.
A good day for my Broncos :)
Quote from: valporun on March 19, 2012, 04:00:11 PM
C'mon, Stl... Respond to it. We could probably use a good laugh. I mean right now all I'm hearing on tv is about Peyton Manning supposedly signing with Denver and the Illinois Primary tomorrow. I could use a good laugh.
Nah, I brought it on myself, so I'll just take it ;)
I just saw a Sun Times article that reports from a "source" (of the unnamed variety of course) that the Illini are all in on Shaka Smart, won't take no for an answer, money is no object, and Smart is listening. WSCR is talking about whether Carmody should be fired at NW (as you said, they're all talking about it up there).
I know it's the real world, and I know a guy's gotta do what he's gotta do.
All the same, I feel sad today (and I just bought my Sweet Sixteen tickets for Friday-Sunday -- #WeAreAllBobcatsNow -- and I'm wondering what I'm going to be feeling like as I sit there watching the last Mid-Majority team take on the giants). Butler's a done deal is something I'm hearing more and more these days.
What I think I'm being reminded of is that being a Mid-Majority fan means forgetting about becoming attached to individuals. Know that the more they excel, the more likely they're going to escape to greener pastures. It's about watching whoever plays for your team and the other teams in your conference to see if they can maximize their potential and fight for every inch, knowing that it's all transitory. Nobody stays forever, not even prized coaches and teams. The more prized they are, the more likely they are to leave. You learn -- somehow -- to wish them well, but your allegiance remains where it is as long as those left behind are doing everything they can to excel. You see if you can enjoy the journey, even if any glory that comes is gone almost as soon as it arrives (gosh, I sure hope I'm not taking on a Minnesota Twins mindset here!!!)
It's a hard way to be a fan, but there's something cleansing about the realization.