Rod's Monday Take N Things

After an ejoyable Easter Sunday of doing hardly anything but feasting and watching TV sports, here is what I came up with yesterday. I will watch more LPGA golf. I have a new favorite player, Suzann Pettersen. A blonde, blue eyed Norwegian girl who can play a pretty good game of golf. Couldn't overcome things yesterday and finished 2nd at the LPGA Nabisco Classic, one of the LPGA's biggies, but when she nearly eagled a putt on 18 that would have really put the pressure on Yanni Tseng, that was golf drama that usually belongs to Tiger Woods. The PGA really needs Tiger back and on the course. The Houston Open went to a playoff hole, but there was no drama with really two no names playing it out. Anthony Kim and Vaughn Taylor. Not exactly household golf names. Makes me apprciate the likes of Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead, Gary Player and the names that battled it out most weeks when I was younger, and golf was played on black and white TV sets. And tournaments had names. The Bing Crosby Pebble Beach Pro-AM. The Bob Hope Dessert Classic. The Dean Martin Tuscon Open. The Glen Campbell Los Angeles Open. And on Saturday afternoon's it was Shells Wonderful World of Golf. Good stuff.

I had to chuckle at the Lakers ineptness yesterday. The Celtics won despite trying to lose it. Lebron really isn't a very good free throw shooter is he? Would be nice for a guy who "could win the scoring title every year if I wanted too". Direct quote from Mr. James. The NCAA Women's tournament had some good basketball moments. Big comebacks by Oklahoma and Baylor but in the end, the two best teams all season long will be playing tomorrow night. UConn will win by double figures. If they don't, Stanford can have at least a "moral victory". And baseball has begin with another overhyped Yankees-Red Sox game last night won by Boston. And Jon and Joe and Orel in the broadcast booth this year. That will be compelling! Not really. Joe Morgan still would do things differently becasue he is as close to a perfect ball player that ever put on the uniform. You can ask him. Orel Hershiser will still be the third banana in the booth and Jon Miller will still try to get Joe and Orel into disagreements that can be rather comical at times.

Baseball closer to home, Legion and 15-16 year old Teener players need to sign up tonight 5:30 to 7 at the Legion Cabin. $25 registration is needed and community, get ready for the Legion players to come your way with raffle tickets that they need to sell to help fund the program. And the program needs all of our help when it comes to funding. It is just like everything else. It will cost more to run the program than last year despite some of the things that are being done to cut back on cost.