NBC's Coverage of the Olympics

What's up with NBC? Their studio coverage has been horrible! No mic for Bella Karolyi on the first night of sport coverage? Bob Costas has to hold his mic? Huge echo on the set with Jim Lampley? Cris Collinsworth providing analysis of Women's Swimming? Collinsworth's first question to Dara Torres: Can you honestly tell us that you don't use performance enhancing drugs? Are you kidding? How long has NBC known they were providing coverage of the Beijing Games? NBC locked up the rights to 2008 in 1995 and knew it was in Beijing in 2001! Seriously, you can't get a lav mic purchased in 13 years and prepared in 7 years? NBC, get your act together. With so many events tape delayed, or worse different start times depending on whether or not you live in the East and Central time zones or the Mountain and Pacific time zones, NBC can ill-afford to drive viewers away with sloppy production quality.

Vindication

I watched the All-Star game last night, not so much because I wanted to see the All-Stars (most coming from teams with huge fanbases, but because Clint Hurdle was the manager. Clint earned the honor by managing the Colorado Rockies to their first World Series last year.

So why is it "vindication"? The American League beat the National League in 15 innings by a score of 4 to 3. The American League has won 12 straight. Where's the vindication?

Last fall the Rockies finished the year with the best fielding percentage EVER! Not one of their players earned a Gold Glove. Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki led all rookies in 9 offensive categories and finished 2nd or 3rd in 8 others. Yet he loses the Rookie of the Year award to Ryan Braun of Milwaukee, who had a great first half of the season, but faded, along with the Brewers, in the 2nd half. Todd Helton ends the season with a .999 fielding percentage and doesn't win the Gold Glove? Clint Hurdle leads the Rockies to the World Series when his team is picked to finish 4th or 5th in their division? Okay, enough griping.

I watched the All-Star Game to see how Hurdle manages, Matt Holliday plays and Aaron Cook pitches. I was not disappointed. AL manager Terry Francona ran out of position players in the 10th, while Hurdle saved a starting pitcher. That proved crucial when the game went into extra innings. Matt Holliday hit a home run in the fifth inning for the first score of the game and Aaron Cook should have won the MVP for the brilliant pitching in a 10th inning that saw 2 errors in a row by NL 2nd baseman Dan Uggla. Bases loaded, nobody out and Cook gets three ground balls to escape the inning. Same brilliance in the 11th.

The Rockies' players performed well on the national stage, and though they didn't win or get any awards, today I feel vindicated!

I'm Back

It's been a month since I've posted anything and it's been a busy month. A little camping trip, starting a Sunday School class, VBS and life. Don't have much time today, but wanted to direct you to my nephew's blog for some insight on Gay Marriage in California.

The Season is Over

Tonight was Justin's last game! His Little League team (the Phillies) finished the year 5-4-3 - a good double play and not a bad record for 7-9 year olds! Team party this weekend at Sky Sox game!

They're Closer!!!

Just saw that In-N-Out has opened a store in Washington City, UT!!! That's just north of St. George, in the Southwest corner of Utah. It's only 611 miles from Colorado Springs. 11 short hours! It's just a matter of time!

Operation Chaos

Was Rush crazy to start this? As a conservative, I can not stand the thought of a Clinton holding political office. NEVER, EVER, EVER vote for a Clinton. But I have to say, it is working. We've seen a lot of skeletons come out of Obama's closet and Hillary's looking like she's too stupid to get out (to the tune of nearly 8 million of her own money!) or too arrogant to realize that someone else could win. In either case, the next six months should be interesting.

Of Sod and Facebook

The yard is finished! We brought in (and spread) 14 tons of topsoil on Saturday and yesterday we installed 1500 square feet of sod! More on that in a future post. In the meantime, we had our Youth Pastor over on Friday and he was trying to convince us to sign up on Facebook. What do you think?

Colorado, Oklahoma, Rhode Island

I've known Paul since he was 11. His parents are some of our dearest friends, as evidenced by the fact that we visited them when they moved from Colorado to Oklahoma and then Rhode Island. And now I want to introduce you to one of Paul's great gifts. Check out Paul's incredible talent as a photographer.

National Radio Hall of Fame

The National Radio Hall of Fame is conducting its voting for this years class. If you would like to participate, simply go here and register. It's simple and free. In addition to a few famous people, I noticed others I have heard in Los Angeles and Colorado Springs. Thanks for your participation.

It's Just a Little Felony

For 34 years, Susan LeFevre lived a lie. According to a Foxnews.com AP report, LeFevre walked away from prison after only serving one year of her 10 to 20 year prison sentence. That's the felony. She was tracked down recently, living under an assumed name in San Diego county. The quote from her husband explains a lot about how the victim mentality is so prevalent in our society. "Our family is threatened to be destroyed by something that happened to her as a 19-year-old teenager 34 years ago in Michigan." It "happened to her"? Not only did she commit a crime, it was serious enough to warrant a 10 to 20 year sentence! On top of that, she didn't serve her time! Sadly, her husband (Alan Walsh) and their children will suffer significant consequences of her choices - to commit crimes and try to hide that from her spouse. It makes you wonder how they got married without Mr. Walsh having a conversation with her parents.