(My btoher in-law's yard last week)
June 3rd will be Christmas in June, Saskatchewan style, as it’s the day we all get to see the presents Mr. Eric Tillman has gotten for us good little Rider fans in 2007. I know this is obvious to everyone reading, but I am very excited about this year’s Training Camp. All the new players, all the new coaches, the new scheme, and the new attitude that will be surrounding this team. My eyes will be focused a lot of the time on the receivers in camp. The sheer numbers ensure it will be a fierce battle for the receiver positions on this 2007 Rider team, but there are some great intangibles as well. Will the veterans step up and prove they belong here or will there be a standout rookie this year? Will Fantuz suffer from the sophomore jinx? Where will they all be lining up? Inside, outside, and so on and so on. The hard part may be getting all of them the ball enough to make a fair decision, but we don’t have to worry about that. The coaches do all the worrying, and although it may be a hard task, they too are looking forward to it. So many stories will be coming out during TC it may just be like two Christmases all rolled up into one. I will try and get to as many days as I can, but with work it will be hard. On the days I do get out there, I will give you my perspectives here. Rod will do his usual amazing job and his info will be heard on 620 CKRM and at the pedersenmedia site. Frenzy will probably be in attendance a lot and should have a number of good reports at The Lynch Mob site as well. Also I know there will be many reports at both Riderfans and Riderville, from a lot of different perspectives which is always interesting. With all of that going on, those of you that are out of towners will always be up to date. Heck, I’m sure there will even be a ton of pictures everywhere as well - isn’t the internet a wonderful tool for staying up to date with our favourite team? Even if you live out of province, country or (I see in my stats I had a page view from France yesterday) continent.
Sportsline tonight was another great show, we had on Richie “the minister of defence” Hall and, as always, he was a pleasure to speak with. The one major thing I took away from the interview was the fact coach Hall said Mo Lloyd is penciled in @ number one for middle linebacker, as I stated on the air, I take nothing away from Mike McCullough but I am very excited to see what Mo will be able to do starting in the middle this year. I was so glad when coach Hall was asked and decided to stay with the team for 2007. In my eyes, he has been a great defensive mind for this team for years now and will continue to be. This is a man who went from a great player, to a great part of the community, to a great coach, staying a great man all the time. At times over the past few years there have been some breakdowns on the D side of the ball sure, but really I feel we have had one, if not the best, defence in the league for those said same years. I have stated before that when there have been breakdowns defensively at the end of some games, that you can not solely blame the defence. Numerous times they have got the ball back only for the O to go 3 and out. That, I feel, will change this year. Richie Hall is a stand-up guy, and from what I understand (I hope I’m not telling stories out of school here) can even do a little knitting and or crocheting as well. Don’t forget he has a ring folks, and that matters. If you missed the show you can still hear it again on-line or download it to pod cast it later, the link is in my links on the left hand side of the page.
38 Rider plates today, and one really nice Rider Garden stone as well.
Congrats to Casey Mears on his first Nextel Cup win yesterday in the Coke 600! Good kid, and very cool to see him pick up a win. I was one week off in my prediction J Also congratulations to the seasoned veteran Kyle Petty for a great third place finish. And not that I am unhappy about Casey Mears, I do have to be honest and say I was pulling for both him and J.J. Yeley to run out of gas so Kyle could pick up the deserved win. All in all, great to see a little new blood atop the leader board.
And the Indy 500 goes to Dario Franchitti. The race ended after only 166 laps due to rain. I said Danika had a shot at winning she was as high as third, but she ended up eighth.
And just to round out the racing review on what really is the biggest day in motor sports, The Monaco Grand Prix was won by Fernando Alonso giving McLaren their 150th Formula One victory.
What a great day to be a race fan.
In RSFL news, the Streakers (my team) defeated the 66ers 34-12 to bring their record to 2-1. The score was not really indicative of the good game that it was. The Streakers had some outstanding play by the whole team to pull out the win. Props to Special K (my son) for a great interception of a lateral. That, combined with a fantastic kick return for a touchdown by the other Chris, were the turning points in the game. A great team effort.
Current league standings. (Thank you to Knighthawk for the format)
Sportsline tonight was another great show, we had on Richie “the minister of defence” Hall and, as always, he was a pleasure to speak with. The one major thing I took away from the interview was the fact coach Hall said Mo Lloyd is penciled in @ number one for middle linebacker, as I stated on the air, I take nothing away from Mike McCullough but I am very excited to see what Mo will be able to do starting in the middle this year. I was so glad when coach Hall was asked and decided to stay with the team for 2007. In my eyes, he has been a great defensive mind for this team for years now and will continue to be. This is a man who went from a great player, to a great part of the community, to a great coach, staying a great man all the time. At times over the past few years there have been some breakdowns on the D side of the ball sure, but really I feel we have had one, if not the best, defence in the league for those said same years. I have stated before that when there have been breakdowns defensively at the end of some games, that you can not solely blame the defence. Numerous times they have got the ball back only for the O to go 3 and out. That, I feel, will change this year. Richie Hall is a stand-up guy, and from what I understand (I hope I’m not telling stories out of school here) can even do a little knitting and or crocheting as well. Don’t forget he has a ring folks, and that matters. If you missed the show you can still hear it again on-line or download it to pod cast it later, the link is in my links on the left hand side of the page.
38 Rider plates today, and one really nice Rider Garden stone as well.
Congrats to Casey Mears on his first Nextel Cup win yesterday in the Coke 600! Good kid, and very cool to see him pick up a win. I was one week off in my prediction J Also congratulations to the seasoned veteran Kyle Petty for a great third place finish. And not that I am unhappy about Casey Mears, I do have to be honest and say I was pulling for both him and J.J. Yeley to run out of gas so Kyle could pick up the deserved win. All in all, great to see a little new blood atop the leader board.
And the Indy 500 goes to Dario Franchitti. The race ended after only 166 laps due to rain. I said Danika had a shot at winning she was as high as third, but she ended up eighth.
And just to round out the racing review on what really is the biggest day in motor sports, The Monaco Grand Prix was won by Fernando Alonso giving McLaren their 150th Formula One victory.
What a great day to be a race fan.
In RSFL news, the Streakers (my team) defeated the 66ers 34-12 to bring their record to 2-1. The score was not really indicative of the good game that it was. The Streakers had some outstanding play by the whole team to pull out the win. Props to Special K (my son) for a great interception of a lateral. That, combined with a fantastic kick return for a touchdown by the other Chris, were the turning points in the game. A great team effort.
Current league standings. (Thank you to Knighthawk for the format)
Racer Jr went 3 for 3 tonight with 1 RBI Today’s lyrics
“You got your eye on the cheerleader queen
You're walkin' her home from school
You know that she's only seventeen
She's gonna make you a fool”
Can we put up the tree today please?
Can we put up the tree today please?
5 comments:
John Cougar Mellencamp/Play Guitar
Good show tonite Joe.
Tony was soooo close in the 600 but who woulda thought you needed fuel to finish a race. LOL
Loved Jr.'s camoflauge paint job.
Cathy
Great Sportsline tonight as always Joe.
Wish I could have watched those races, but that's the way it goes.
Man that snow in Calgary was wicked. Very wet and heavy and messed up a bunch of construction sites.
Can't wait for TC to get underway... :-))
Phil
Cathy is back boys look out :)
You know I was pulling for TS, but still was pretty pleased with the way it ended. I also enjoy the different paint jobs that come out, imagine if a person actually tried to keep up buying all the different die-cast models. Yikes
And re your comment on Riderville about the pic of me on Rods blog http://rodpederson.blogspot.com I have just one question... Are you drunk :)
Phil
Along with our trip to Bristol, we all need to go to Charlotte for the All-Star and 600 some year. Heck let's just get the big RV and go to them all.
Joe
I was so happy for Kyle Petty. His wife was very emotional after the race.
Hmmm. RV'ing with Joe and Jo. I could handle that. Get out the atlas and start planning!
C
LOL...the roaming NASCAR nomads... :-))
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