Avenged

Only loss was avenged last night. Win by a score of 40-37. If we played some disciplined D maybe we have a bigger margin.

Few days off, then back at it over weekend.

2/3

Of the season complete. Win against Wayne B&G today. They gave us a good game though...

So right now we sit at 19-1 and play the only team to beat us to date tomorrow evening at home.

Gotta finish strong.

Groundhogs

They all did not see their shadow, which apparently means spring is soon. Oh boy.

Saturday 5PM...my 6th grade hoops team goes for W #18 in about 90 minutes, against one loss. We play the team that handed us a loss on Monday night, so some hardcourt payback is our goal.

Spring tryouts for OSSS for his HS team are in 27 days. We hit the cages today to get some quality swings in. Sweet.

YSSS and SoulSlam are on diets. Mine is in week #5, I've lost a little over 15 lbs. YSSS is in week #1 and he's down about 4 already. He's a demon!

It's cold. Too cold.

Might be a snow day on Sunday.

A-Rod is in deep. Way deep.

I had a day off yesterday. Didn't feel like it.

Denial

A-Rod getting ready for his next "exam"

Hoo-boy! Here in the land of SoulSlam we all get to "dogpile on the rabbit" as a bulldog in a turtleneck used to say. Except it's not Bugs Bunny, it's Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez, aka A-Rod, aka "The Minotaur", aka "JUICER".

Giving credit where credit is due, the Miami New Times has broken a story that provides details about the fact that A-Rod was the alleged recipient of PEDs from Dr. Anthony Bosch and his Biogenesis clinic in South Florida. Explosive stuff.

A-Rod has denied it through his PR flacks, and hired a giant of a lawyer just in case I guess.

"The news report about a purported relationship between Alex Rodriguez and Anthony Bosch are not true," Rodriguez said in a statement issued by a publicist. "He was not Mr. Bosch's patient, he was never treated by him and he was never advised by him. The purported documents referenced in the story — at least as they relate to Alex Rodriguez — are not legitimate."

The underlines are mine. Take what you will from them. They are words of obfuscation in my opinion.

Bottom line: A-Rod is done. He will never get in HOF. And I am absolutely 100% sure the Yankees would like to see him disappear. Too bad they still owe him $115MM or so...

I think Sevendust says it best

No Doubt...

...this was a foul!

Nice shorts, guys!

And the Result Is...

Won 56-51. Broke their 1-3-1 trap for the most part. If we had hit all easy lay-ups we might have scored 70-75 points.

A little break and back at it Friday.

Basketball

The Yin and The Yang

That just about sums up my hoops team. Case(s) in point:

Tuesday we travel to a BC town to play the team we beat in Championship game last season as 5th graders. Team is close in record to us. They are up by 12 at halftime, and get as far as 16 point up in 3rd quarter. But we keep playing. And playing. Win by 2. Another fun evening for the Ridgewood faithful. But I will say this; they were best team we played all season. Final score 52-50.

Friday night we play a game that's 1-9. Bad sloppy team. And we played them bad and sloppy. We get W, but we had trouble putting them away. As I explained to the boys; we will end up playing a bad sloppy team in 1st round of any playoffs. And all it takes is a little luck on their side and we are done. That would be un-pretty.

So Sunday is a home game vs. the aforementioned Ridgewood team. We see what we got. Looks like they lost again last night...so that may take some thunder away but we still have to get W to show everyone who the undisputed is.