TENNIS NOISES: As I typed on the computer in the kitchen this morning, I could hear Maria Sharapova's screech each time she struck the tennis ball all the way from the TV set in the living room. That sound she makes is not a simple grunt. I could handle that. But this screech she utters each time she swings her racquet sounds like the same noise I heard the last time I visited the exotic birds house at the zoo. The more I watched and listened, the more she disgusted me. I finally became pleased she was playing so poorly.
Are the sensitive microphones that pick up sounds the culprit? Apparently not because I don't hear the same violent screeching when other players swing.
Happily Maria now has a couple of weeks off. Unfortunately my boy, Andy Roddick, will be enjoying the same unexpected vacation. At least we have Federer and Nadal to watch. Hopefully they both last at Wimbledon until a week from Sunday. . . . . .
COLLEGE BASEBALL: What a great story the Fresno State baseball championship is! And how sweet it is that the schools that seem to ALWAYS qualify for the College World Series---LSU, Miami, Rice, USC, Arizona State, Florida State, North Carolina, et al.---win it infrequently! . . . . .
Good luck to Coach Christiansen in California. Sorry to hear he's leaving South Dakota State, but he is leaving his mark there. . . . . .
BASEBALL OBSERVATION: I've spent a lot of hours at Prentis Park in Vermillion this summer, watching Red Sox amateur games and Post 1 Legion games. It seems as if it is usually the visiting team that has the problem, but outfield fly balls are dropping all over the place. Is it the lights that get into the outfielders' eyes? I don't think so because it happens in daylight, too. Maybe it's simply that the visiting coaches are sticking the players who can't catch the ball into the outfield spots instead of the infield. I'm not sure of the reason, but it seems I've written "E7" and "E8" and "E9" on my scorecards many more times this summer than in the past. . . . . .
Things are not going well today, so far at least. Andy Roddick lost. The Cubs are getting creamed at home where they hardly ever lose. The Twins aren't off to a very good start either. But a departing thought---things could be worse. As Maria Sharapova, the tennis screecher, said in her post-defeat interview, "There are worse things than losing a tennis match."
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