Monday Morning Quarterback
Microsoft may be buying Yahoo. They also might be buying the Sun complex in Broomfield. Despite Google’s meteoric rise, Microsoft is/are still the Joneses and Google knows it!
The caucus in Colorado is Tuesday. Isn’t twenty years of Bush (4) + Clinton (8) + Bush (8) enough? For the record, I’m a huge fan of Barry. If you read his bio, you might become one too. He’s half African, half Caucasian. Raised in Hawaii. Lived in Indonesia. Schooled in California and NY. Senator for Illinois. He’s got the whole country and a lot of ethnicities covered plus according to the NY times he’s a MAC.
Rate cuts, rate cuts, and more rate cuts.
I’ll be the first to admit that I really didn’t think the Giants had a shot at winning the Superbowl. I grew up watching both the Jets and the Giants but since my brother liked the Giants, I adopted the Jets as my team just to spite him. Boy do I regret that move big time!
Despite being a Jets fan, it’s hard for me to hate the Patriots. New England line backer Tedy Bruschi is the same ethnic chop suey as I am.
Why do we love sports? My brother said it best, it’s unscripted drama.
My brother is now a Broncos fan.
Suck it Peter King!
Overland: Cheap Golf Course, Not So Cheap Neighborhood
If you’ve ever played Overland you’ve probably felt like a MILLION bucks. My best scores always occurred after 9 or 18 holes at “Overdog.” It’s in a great spot and just like any great spot it’s about to be exploited:
Home prices in
Denver ’s Overland Park neighborhood are on the rise as homebuyers and developers realize the centrally located area’s potential, despite being wedged between major industrial parks and bisected by a busy highway and train tracks.
Yogi Berra once coined the phrase: “It’s so popular no one goes there anymore.” Let’s hope that Overland stays a municipal course forever. I like to feel good about my golf game every now and again.
Read the full article: Overland’s industrial evolution
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Red Sox Attempt To Break Fabled ‘Curse Of Relief Pitcher Curtis Leskanic’
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What are your chances of getting tickets to the World Series?
If you wanted tickets for the World Series, how many people will you be competing against? I like to think in numbers so here’s my quick math:
According to the swami known as Wikipedia, Denver’s population was approximately 2.5 Million in 2006. I’d guess that the population was risen a few thousand in the last year.
There are approximately 18,000 tickets available for each World Series game at Coors Field.
There are 3 possible games for a grand total of 54,000 tickets available.
Each person can purchase up to 4 tickets and lets assume most people will buy 4 tickets for only one of the games. (If you had a brain you’d buy 4.)
That leaves only 13,500 sets of 4 tickets.
Here’s the kicker, they’re only available online.
Children typically make 25% of the population so the 2.5 million drops to 1.8.
Let’s just say that half the people don’t care about the Rockies or at least don’t care about going to the game. We’re now at 900K.
And not everyone has access to the internet so again lets slash by 50% to 450K.
And not everyone that has access to the internet will be available at 10 AM next Monday again slash by 50% to 225K.
And not everyone that has access to the internet next Monday has broadband again slash by 50% to 113K.
113K will be competing for 13K tickets.
Ever been to a game at the Big House? Imagine going through the turnstile at Michigan Stadium with that many people at the same time. Qwest, Comcast, and all other internet providers better be ready. Throw statistics and probability out the window, getting tickets to the World Series is going to be MADNESS!
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The Colorado Rockies are going to the World Series!
Source: Rocky Mountain News
Tags: colorado, denverRockies rising a sign of the Times
Now that the Mets are clearing out their lockers, New York Times sports writer Ben Shpigel has to focus on other teams. He wrote a great article about the Rockies recently:
For the past two and a half weeks, they have faced the same daunting reality: lose, and their slim playoff hopes would all but disappear. So they kept winning and winning and winning, inventing new ways all along, right into Game 1 of their National League division series Wednesday.
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GO ROCKIES!
No tag for this post.Every 10 Years
It seems like every ten years a baseball team comes along and makes me want to watch baseball.
1986: When I was a kid, the 1986 Mets were my team. I lived and died watching them. I couldn’t sleep when they lost and I couldn’t sleep when they won. Looking back it seems silly to lose sleep over what happens with a sports team considering it has ZERO impact on your life. When they won the World Series, it was amazing.
1996: I stopped watching baseball after the strike scandal plus I had A LOT of other things going on in my life. However, there was a Yankee team with a rookie shortstop that was more substance than style. They were different. They were helped by a kid in the right field stands against the Orioles. Then they won four in a row against the Braves.
2007: (Close Enough) Ever since I moved here, I’ve enjoyed going to see the Rockies play at Coors Field. There are no tolls, parking is super cheap and they’re surrounded by bars and taverns. Two years ago the Rockies got younger quickly. They called it Generation R and it seemed like a huge mistake until the Rockies brought up a young shortstop who’s more substance than style and who wears #2 (sound familiar). Despite the fact that major league baseball has a major league steroid issue, I’ve enjoyed the Rockies run this year and they made watching baseball fun!
Go ROX!
No tag for this post.Hooray Rockies, Boo Mets!
The Rockies are in third place in the National League West. However, they’re only two games behind Arizona and one game behind San Diego. In the wild card they are tied with Philadelphia and New York. After a 6 game road trip where they swept division rivals San Diego and Los Angeles the Rockies return home for a three game series with another division rival Arizona. If they sweep Arizona there’s a very good chance we’ll see the Rockies in the playoffs for the first time since 1995.
As for the Mets, their inconsistent season has resulted in an epic collapse. Up 7.5 games with 17 games to play, they’re now tied with the Philadelphia Phillies. As a Mets and Rockies fan all I have to say is this….
HOORAY ROCKIES, BOO METS!
However, this epic collapse will have epic ramifications. Keep this in mind: the Mets are the only team in Major League Baseball with a Black Manager and the Mets are the only team in Major League Baseball with a Minority General Manager.
Tags: vaRandom sports observations
I’ll always like sports more than mortgages so here are some very random sports observations:
- Joba Chamberlain of the Yankees is a BIG BOY and ESPN should televise EVERY Yankees vs Red Sox game. It’s 18 games of pure baseball magic.
- Willie Randolph of the Mets and Clint Hurdle of the Rockies have the same problem, they both have terrible bullpens. Clint Hurdle is better at managing his putrid pen.
- For all the traffic issues the Rockies cause in downtown Denver, they finally made up for it with a decent season and “meaningful games” in September.
- The boys from Florida State are much faster than the crew CU has from Texas, California and some parts of Colorado. Cody Hawkins will be very good in a year or two.
- Matt Holiday is having a great year playing left field at Coors Field. I have a feeling Ryan Spillborghs will be playing left field next year.
- The Broncos are a very lucky team. Two weeks of pure luck. I hope that they’re lucky when they play the Colts or the Patriots in the playoffs in January.
- The NFC is up for grabs but in the AFC it will really come down to the Patriots and Colts. Unless of course Tom Brady finally gets the beating of the week by the Red Sox nation for wearing a Yankees cap in public.
- Tiger won the Fed Ex Cup. Did we really needed more assurance that Tiger is the best?
- Charlie Weis brought respectability back to Notre Dame just like Britany Spears brought respectability back to Britany Spears at the 2007 VMAs.
The R word and I don’t mean Rockies
The Rockies are doing very well in 2007. They started off slow but rebounded. With a few weeks left in the season, they’re making a a strong push towards a playoff berth. Imagine what their season could have been if Manny Corpas was moved to the closer spot when Brian Fuentes was having his “issues” in late June/early July.
While the Rockies dominate the back pages for now (it’s only a matter of time before the Broncos dominate) the Business section is dominated with talk of a recession:
U.S. stocks sold off Friday, with the major indexes all ending with weekly losses, after a jolting decline in August employment - the first such drop in nearly four years - sparked worries the country could be headed for a recession.
Read the full article: "Shocking" jobs report for Aug. triggers more fears of recession.
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