I’ll be just fine pretending I’m not
World Cup
I watched a few games. More soccer than I’ve ever watched on TV. Although that’s not saying much. The Sweeden/Trinadad & Tobago 0-0 match was actually really exciting. I don’t know why they could make the USA game today the later start so I could watch some of it. I’m debating DVRing it and watching when I get home. I’d probably wind up watching it at 2x speed and realize that its much more exciting that way.
ESPN2HD
I’m most excited about the World Cup starting because after many people complaining to Comcast they announced Thursday night they would be adding it on Friday. Since I’ve had HD I often don’t even check what is on ESPN2 because I just flip through the HD channels. One odd thing I noticed this morning was that Drag Racing is in HD. None of the NCAA Baseball coverage has been in HD but they manage it for Drag Racing. I can understand if they are trying to spread the HD audience but they haven’t advertised it all that much. Still waiting on ESPN Classic and ESPNU.
NCAA Baseball Super Regionals
As much as ESPN has gone down hill the past two years their college baseball coverage has been excellent. They even have regular season games on every once in a while. I’m all set for the College World Series to get started.
French Open
I jumped on the Nadal bandwagon last year during the French when he took down Federer in the semis. I don’t mind Federer, he’s very professional, he could show a little more emotion though. Its just that he is so dominant when Nadal came out of nowhere last year you couldn’t help but root for him. Even with his Capri Pants. I wound up sleeping a little later than I expected and missed the first set, which Federer won 6-1. Nadal dominated the next two sets. In the fourth set Nadal was in control until 2 balls hit the net and went Federer’s way. It looked like he was done. In the tiebreak Nadal took over again and that was it. I don’t know your feelings about tennis, but I love Grand Slam tennis.
Phillies
Who?
Arena Bowl
What?
X-Men 3
Not sports but this is the only other weekend item. Went with Lindsay and Ahad to see it on Saturday night. It was really bad. For my full review goto http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=horrible. Also with all these terrible movies out I really need to start writing a movie.
Not much else but …
If you checked my away message one day last week I had a link to Kyle Drabek’s myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/drabek. In case you were confused, he was the Phillies 1st Round Draft Pick in this year’s draft. His page is pretty interesting. The real reason I bring it up here is that Saturday Janos IM’d me this: “the picture of Talan from Laguna Beach on Drabek’s myspace page is the california surfer version of you” So head on over to the page and you will see a picture of Talan and maybe you can figure out what Janos is talking about. I’ll hold off on my opinion until his CD comes out, if it ever does.