You can’t really win this much.
How good are Atlanta’s chances?
Win or lose, a dedicated baseball fan always stays at the stadium until the final out is recorded. However, if you live in Bremerton and depend on a ferry ride to get home, it isn’t always easy to be dedicated. During last night’s Mariners game against the Orioles (a 4-2 Baltimore win in 18 innings), I took the easy way out.
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Concentrating like a pro
Seattle’s Felix Hernandez retired all 27 batters in yesterday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays, won by the Mariners 1-0. A perfect game! Although I caught the last few innings of the contest on the radio, I’m not sure whether to count it as my first perfect game.
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A standard deviation of 1
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New Mexico vs. New Mexico State for the national championship? That’s a long shot given the rest of the field in the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament. However, the intriguing possibility made me wonder whether any intrastate college rivalry, like the Lobos and the Aggies, will be settled during “March Madness.”
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Luck had nothing to do with New York’s 21-17 victory over New England in yesterday’s Super Bowl unless you count the Mud Bay Blog’s coin flip, which correctly predicted the game’s winner. Instead, this post is about the off-the-charts results in the Super Bowl numbers pool a friend of mine runs every year.
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This year’s Super Bowl quiz consists of one question:
Which team will win Super Bowl XLVI?
A. New England Patriots
B. New York Giants
C. I don’t know
D. It doesn’t matter
Let’s try to find the answer.
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Here’s my request on this once-a-century date consisting entirely of elevens. Instead of relying on the 12th Man to make life difficult for the fearsome Baltimore Ravens when they battle us in Seattle on Sunday, how about if the Seahawks play like they have the allotted eleven players on the field for the whole game? In stumbling to a 2 and 6 mark so far this season, the Seahawks have seemed outnumbered at times. How else to account for a lack of offense in the first half all year, big yardage given up by the special teams in the Cincinnati game, and a takeway/giveway count of -5? There’s no penalty in the rule book for playing like ten; if there were, we might get one.
The idea of the 12th Man didn’t originate in Seattle, but the Seahawks benefit from it. When they are really into making noise, Seahawks fans (the 12th Man) are loud enough to totally disrupt the visiting team’s snap count, rhythm, and communication. In past seasons Century Link (formerly Qwest) Field has been one of the NFL’s most difficult venues to play in—let alone win in—for road teams. But not this year (so far anyway) as the Seahawks are 1 and 2 at home. Simple plan for Sunday: suit everyone up who is healthy, substitute a lot, and get all eleven players involved in every play beginning with the opening kickoff. That’s what the Ravens will be doing.
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