Archive for the ‘Sports’ Category

Muddy Buddies

Lauren, Brian, and I participated in the NY Muddy Buddy yesterday. It was a great, tiring, muddy time! Check out the photos here.

Long Branch Half-Marathon

I signed up for this a few weeks back. May 1st!

New Kayaks

RIP Harry Kalas

Harry Kalas passed away today, one of the all time great voices.

Death from a thousand pecks

Say what you will, but those Cardinals are scrappy this year.

I’m not sure what to say about the choice of mask by the gentleman pictured above. I suspect many current Cardinal fans are new to the bandwagon and are adapting “on the fly” to this new winning “tradition.”

The guy above looks like he’s adapting from a role in Pulp Fiction.

Rowing the Pacific

Roz Savage is rowing across the Pacific, and she’s blogging it here.

Bad news today. I cannot get the watermaker to work.

It ran well on Friday, then sputtered to a halt after a minute or so on both Saturday and Sunday, and today again gave up the attempt after a short and feeble effort.

I spent a couple of hours alternating phone calls to Darren at Spectra Watermakers, and head down in the watermaker hatch. I was trying to find signs of corrosion resulting from its dunking a couple of weeks ago, when the hatch flooded, but all the wiring looked fine as far as I could see.

There is one more option still to try – the corrosion may be in the switch panel in the cabin, which also got rather damp during the rough weather – and I will investigate that tomorrow.

But for now it’s looking as if water is going to be in short supply for the rest of my voyage.

Also, check out her podcast here, her Twitter feed here, and her Youtube page here.

Jinx averted?

Frank Gramarossa, project executive for the new Yankee stadium, removes a Boston Red Sox jersey with the name of player David Ortiz from the ground at the new Yankee stadium.

The Yankees have ended a construction worker’s attempt to jinx their new stadium with a buried Red Sox jersey.

The jersey was buried under 2 feet of concrete in a service corridor of the stadium.

This is great… As a Mets fan I can only say: “Looks like they missed a bit…”