We Needed This Rain

Thank Goodness for the rain that we are receiving. The water table can now start making a turn back toward normal. We all want in life what we can't have or don't need. The summer when it's a 100 degrees we want it to be winter time, when it's freezing we want it to be a 100 again. Now that the rain is falling and it looks like the whole week may have some sort of precipitation we want it to rain after the game not while the contest is going or not enough to cancel the game.

Tennis is just two weeks from the end of the regular season and if the matches get moved around that's going to put teams on the court playing possibly every day with out practice time to go over mistakes.

Soccer is not quite in a predicament like tennis. They still have four weeks of conference games left and can better absorb playing three games a week if needed to get all their games in.

Tonight is a chance for Volley ball the only fall sport not effected by rain to clearly take advantage of winning the conference race when they travel to Hunt. The two short seasons of Big East VB the Lady Gryphons have not lost a regular season conference game and that will be on the line tonight.

Their lone loss was in the tournament last year at Hunt and they may play today without Tamisha Walker who still nurses a sprained ankle. A win today would give the Lady Gryphons a two game lead with three games to play or a loss and they are in a tie with Hunt.

Talk about big games but no doubt this is it.

I grew up in the age when NFL tv football was the Redskins at 1.00pm on one channel and the Colts when they were in Baltimore came on at 2.00pm on another channel. The only time you saw another team was when the Redskins and Colts played them.

George Blanda retired from the NFL after spending ten years playing in Chicago in 1958. Then along comes this upstart league who drafts this old retire quarterback to go play quarterback in 1960. Sixteen years later the kicker quarterback retired again at the age of 49.

Blanda was the master for the Oakland Raiders of coming off the bench and either quarterbacking a comeback or kicking a winning field goal. He was Brett Farve before Farve was born. It seems just like yesterday he was mastering another comeback.

George Blanda died yesterday at 83 years old. Seems like he just played two weeks ago.

Finally today I saw something last night during the Braves-Marlins game that I have never seen before. Brian McCann was batting for the Braves and the Marlins had the second baseman playing short right field almost behind first base. McCann's hit a ground ball that went through the legs of the first baseman for and error. That's not the end of this grounder. The second baseball already in position to field the grounder and throw to first let the ball go through his legs for another error.

There is an old saying if you watch baseball long enough you will see something that you have never seen before and that is the first time I have ever seen one ground ball go through the legs of two players on the same play.