I saw this at Dean’s World. It was a interesting not-normal sports story and I decided to put it up a I was watching it.
But as I teared up a few times during the video, I decided I should share it with you all too…
There’s a story here to go with it..
Posted in activities + sports
Tagged acl, Chicago, Home Run, people, Sarah Tucholsky
So I drove up to MSU to meet some friends for homecoming and here we are at the game. It’s 7-0 right now…
Update: Final Score MSU wins 52-27!!
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Tagged Flickr, football, homecoming, Michigan, Michigan State University, MSU, Spartan, touchdown
So I got my new bicycle! I got the Cypruss DX from Giant (2007 model) it’s got 24-speeds (about a dozen more than I need) and is silver and gray-ish (I think they call it silver/silver); it’s the one I mentioned the other day. I think these are the 2007 Cypress DX specs. I rode it around a few times yesterday and had him make adjustments a few times. Now I’m off to Hines Drive park to take it for a ride…
Now is a great time to get a bike, all the 2008 models are coming out and every thing is on sale. Differences are generally pretty minimal, the 2008 of my bike had disc brakes (way cool) but took away the adjustment of the front shocks and raised the price $70 (from $370 in 2007 to $440 in 2008). My bike dropped another $45 since last week (and it was marked down then) bringing it to $295!!! And that includes free adjustments, inspections, flat repair and 10% for the next three years (this was at D & D Bicycles and fitness, 4 stores in the Detroit MI area).
I really like it so far. I’m off to the park right now to ride it a bit more. The shocks on the front of the bike and in the seat really make the bumps a lot more enjoyable. Continue reading
Posted in activities + sports
Tagged bicycle, bicycle accident, bicycle rack, bicycle repair, Bike, bike accident, bike repair, Cypress, Cypress DX, repair
So I started the story the other day about how my bicycle was ripped from the back of my car. This was the first really nice bicycle that I ever purchased for myself, I’m thinking it was just under $400. Generally, I just purchased $99 bikes but I was having a hard time finding tires that weren’t mountain bike (extra wide) size and I didn’t want to get the really thin tires. Plus I was at a point when I knew I’d always be able to keep the bike indoors to take care of it (and I wanted something a little nicer). The weird thing is I just commented several times over the last few months about how much I loved the bike and my bike rack (just slides into the trailer hitch and it’s so easy and sturdy).
But back to the middle of the story – Continue reading
Posted in activities + sports
Tagged bicycle, bicycle accident, bicycle rack, Bike, Trek bicycles
So I’m not a big fan of team sports, I go here and there if it’s a group (or I get free tickets) but it’s just never been my thing. Maybe it’s just because there is too much waiting, in line to get in, in the parking lot, between time outs, etc. But I’ve always liked numbers and I really liked the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game so maybe that’s why I got a message sent to me.
The message looked like it was directed to me, it might have just been well formed spam (but there appear to be no ads). But I liked the graphics and stats on “your team’s chance of making the playoffs” so I’m linking to the Detroit Tigers page at Sport Club Stats. They’ve got all sorts of teams and leagues and sports so check it out. Be sure to click out the enlarged graphs/charts too.
Posted in activities + sports
Tagged Detroit Tigers, moneyball, sabermetrics, sports, Sports Statistics, Statistics, web sites
Unfortunately the Detroit Tigers lost to the St. Louis Cardinals tonight. Well, unfortunate for Detroit, the St. Louis Fans are probably pretty happy. It’s gotta feel great to win when you’re in your hometown. So that’s a bonus for the fans down there.
I was a little more in the spirit for this (even though I’m not a sports person), changed the blog look and even watched a few innings last night…
Posted in activities + sports, general
Tagged baseball, Detroit, Detroit Tigers, Michigan
As we all know, I’m not a huge fan of sports, normally I’d be hard pressed to know who’s in the World Series. But being from the Detroit area I was curious as to how they were doing tonight. Unfortunately they’ve got rain, much too much rain to play so the game has been delayed. I’m not sure if they might still play tonight or not. Very sad for the sports geeks who had their whole night planned out…
I know how I feel when Apple has a press conference and Steve Jobs doesn’t announce the product I was expecting…
Posted in activities + sports
Tagged Apple, Detroit, Detroit Tigers, games, Michigan
The Detroit Tigers made it to the World Series!!!! It’s totally weird that no one knew who it was that we were going to play until less than two days ago. Game one is tonight.
Posted in activities + sports, holidays + events
Tagged Detroit, Detroit Tigers, Michigan, news
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