Okay, an open letter to the Cardinals

I admit I am not a professional baseball player, and I admit there is no way I could ever hit a sinking curve. But you are and you know how. There are guys in scoring position. Please stop hitting into double plays. Please advance the runners. You can’t win games if you don’t score runs. Our pitchers can only hold off [...]

Cardinals in 7

That’s my predication for the World Series. Of course, I am a Cards fan. Of course, I would never bet against my beloved Birds on the Bat so anything I say is meaningless. And let’s face it, they are so playing with house money that really anything they do is fine at this point. No one is [...]

Hockey practice starts tonight

Mini-mites start tonight with their first practice. Mini-mites, for those who don’t know, is the term given to players who are ages 4 to 6. The local organization, Peoria Youth Hockey Association (www.pyha.org) has teams and divisions for kids ages four through 16. It’s a great group of people and a great time. Expensive at times but it’s well worth [...]

Big game tonight

Will Albert go off in the derby of soon-to-be free agents seeking to make more than some municipal budgets? It’s Sir Albert against the Beast. Will the squirrels came back and terrorize the Brewers as they did the Phillies and what is a Phily anyway. It should be an epic game with trash-talking, two teams [...]

Rally Squirrel!!!!

My beloved Cardinals are one win away from making it past the first round of the playoffs and proving to all that their wild card status isn’t a fluke. Just imagine if they had Adam Wainwright this year.. wow. Anyway. That’s not the best part of the games. It’s the RALLY SQUIRREL!!! How awesome is [...]

Bob the squirrel

The girl ™ has a new friend, “bob.” Bob is a squirrel. Any squirrel. he lives in a tree. Any tree. Really. It started at the beginning of the year when at her daycare, the teachers would have the kids look outside and see if they could the squirrel running around the playground. The kids [...]

Hockey’s back….

Yep, we got the rosters for the boy ™’s team this year and we have five kids back from his team last year and six new kids. It’s going to be a good year. I can tell. He’s bene practicing a lot and working on his skating. Stick work needs some help but he’s six. [...]