Tuesday June 23, 2009:
The summer holiday season has a few mid-week holidays to start things
off. The Province of Quebec holiday on Wednesday the 24th and likewise
Canada Day on a Wednesday July 1. Makes for a split work week in Cube
World ... 2-days work; 1-day stat holiday, 2-days work makes for a
different week for the office crowd. When its a Tuesday or Thursday
thing many will take an extra day to make it a 4-day weekend but when
its a Wednesday holiday not quite as easy unless you are kicking off
your vacation period.
Yet,
for many this won't be a day off but instead a day of sweat and toil
for the hordes engage in the annual relocation festival called "Moving
Day." School wraps up. The masses move with leases ending June 30.
They'll use the June 24 and / or July 1 stat holiday to pack, load and
move-on. Moving van activity in our building of some 81-units way up
the past few weeks. One of our two elevators tied up with moving crews.
No plans myself for a July 1 move myself.
Yea!
Two of my Yahoo Fantasy baseball teams in head-to-head weekly match up
play are in 1st place as we hit the last week of June:
--->The Wild Pitching Weasels
(67-37-6 in public league 232533) led by Brewer Prince Fielder plus
awesome pitching led by Red Sox Jonathon Papelbon in the bullpen up
against 10th place PF Flier (39-58-13)
---> The Whacked Weasels (65-39-6 in public league 232310)
led by hot bats Juan Rivera of the Angels combined with Rays players
Ben Zobrist, Evan Longoria and Carl Crawford plus stellar pitching with
a bullpen of Mariano Rivera, Matt Capps, Ryan Franklin, George Sherrill
in this week's match-up against the 5th place Boston Sewer Rat (59-45-6).
--->The Saucy Sausages
are in 3rd spot but moving up (63-38-9 in public league 239923).Solid
hitting led by Philly 2B Chase Utley. excelelnt Bullpen with Ryan
Franklin (17-saves) of the Cards and Huston Street 916-saves) of the
Rockies. Royal Zach Grienke with 9-wins leads my starting pitchers.
----> The Mangy Minx
are the lowliest of my head-2-head teams in 6th spot (58-51-1 in public
league 232208) but only 5-wins out of 1st spot in a close bunching at
the top of the league. I have power in Phillies Ryan Howard (20-HRs)
and Ray's Evan Longoria (16-HRs). Speed in Scott Podsednik (10-SBs) of
the White Sox, Juan Pierre (17-SBs) of the Dogers and Jason bartlett
(14-SBs) of the Rays. Solid team.
However, in Roti Style Fantasy Baseball not fairing quite so well. No Sirree Bob, With the Spitball Squirrels in 6th spot (public league 242913) and the Forkball Ferrets
in 9th spot (public league 232717) after a plague of injuries to season
start draftees it'll take weeks to claw back near the top of the
standings.
Weather
gorgeously sunny and suppose to be upper 20s Celsius! Yea. Going to see
the CFL Football Montreal Alouettes exhibition game Tuesday evening @
Molson Stadium hosting the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
My
bank called @ 8:30 am. Keeners. Now why couldn't the 1st call of the
day be from the Lottery people saying I'd won Quad-Zillions on a crap
shot lottery ticket? Because this is real life.
And
in real life it was a morning of sales leads with a 11:00 am in-line
skate break down the Lachine Canal Trail to the De L'Eglisse Bridge and
back under sunny, breezy, summer conditions.
...
Celebrated
the St. Jean Holiday Eve by going to the CFL (Canadian Football League)
Montreal Alouettes exhibition game @ teh Percival Molson Stadium. The
Als against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Heck of a game. Gorgeous
evening for the game also. Love the stadium on Mont-Royal for the
picturesque site, the intimacy with crowds of about 20,000 at most
matches. They sell out every match. Its all good. Way better than the
Big O or way-way back the Autostad.
Read
an article afterwards stating it was a sell-out. Impressive for an
exhibition game. In fact, as I was lined up for hot dogs at half-time
one of the concession people informed us they had sold-out of hot dogs.
Yessirree, we all wanted the beer & BBQ vibe. Happily they didn't
run out of beer!
Anyway,
the game. Als were up 17-3 at the point they pulled veteran Anthony
Cavillo during the 2nd quarter to give the young guns a look at QB.
Brad Banks came in but the team did squat. Adrian MacPherson the
likeliest candidate to be Calvillo's backup for the regular season
starting July 1 with a game in Calgary. MacPherson, Santos, Leak also
got a whack at the QB spot. Everyone got a look B4 the final cuts going
into the regular season.
The Blue Bombers clawed back to take a 26-25 lead going in to the 4th
quarter. An Alouettes comeback for the win would be needed. Two Field
Goals by kicker Damon Duval gave the Alouettes the 31-27 win to the joy
of the home crowd. Happy-happy, Joy-Joy was the exiting crowd.
Other
than the ever steady Damon Duval offensively the Als had a big game
from RB Whitaker with 94-yards, 1-TD on 9 carries led the ground game
plus he caught 4-passes. The Blue Bombers sucked in the air but ran the
ball well all night. Lefors, the Winnipeg QB was 9 for 21 with 0-TD and
1-interception. Peg' running back Giles ran for 161-yards and 1-TD.