We Got Hoops!

Travel basketball tryouts this weekend. Due to some youth football snafu, SoulSlam has to try out a bunch this afternoon, then the remainder on Sunday. All good I guess, though I also have to coach two 18U Baseball Games wrapped around the tryouts. Busy I am.

This is last season in our travel program for these boys as 8th graders. From what I've seen we got some good size after being small in 7th grade.

I'm determined to limit the roster to 10...we had 13 last year (mostly because we were a two-time league champion and I didn't have the heart to cut kids from a championship team). We had a couple of (botton of rotation) boys no-show a lot of practices so they most likely get cut if they come down. It's all in the tryout y'see.

You Need A Bigger Shovel

To dig a deeper hole.

That's deep, metaphorically speaking.

Postseason Giddyness

Watching Royals-Orioles on the screen...there some really great baseball being played here. Playoff baseball. And Giants-Cardinals start it up in a few. 

Playoff baseball. Maybe some day the team I root for since I was a freakin' little kid will return. I dream. 

So my picks have basically been blown to smithereens. Except for Baltimore. Right now I'm enjoying the game. I have no favorites. So good luck. 

THREE DAY WEEKEND!

You know, on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, they had a segment about why Columbus Day is still a thing...I'll tell you why: SO I CAN HAVE A THREE DAY WEEKEND!!!

But they had some good points; SoulSlam is not of Italian heritage, so celebrating a man who got lost and "discovered" America in this day and age seems a little loose. Listen Paisan, the vikings and the celts had all been here before. Probably as much as 500 years before your expedition reached ground. SMACK!

But I'll enjoy my extra day off from the J-O-B...

Wrong, Boyo!

Except for the Charm City club, SoulSlam was wrong, wrong, wrong.

So O's-Royals and Giants-Cardinals. And for you non-Irish folk, here's the def of Boyo...

Surprise Surprise Surprise

Some are nice surprises...and that's what this is. The KC Royals have made it to the ALCS!!!

Out and about since 5:45AM yesterday, arriving at mi casa around 7:30PM. So mostly listening to radio. But I did see a couple inings including a Billy Butler steal of 2B!!!

Now they go on to play the O's - that's gonna be good!

Backwards Picks

Hint: Read from bottom up unless you like the end first.

MLB Postseason

Champs - LA Dodgers

World Series - Baltimore Orioles vs. LA Dodgers

NLCS - LA Dodgers beat Washington Nationals

ALCS - Baltimore Orioles beat Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

NLDS - LA Dodgers beat St. Louis Cardinals; Washington Nationals beat San Francisco Giants

ALDS - Baltimore Orioles beat Detroit Tigers; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim beat Oakland A's NLWC - San Francisco Giants beat Pittsburgh Pirates ALWC - Oakland A's beat Kansas City Royals