Stupid April. As you can see below it’s been too cold for baseball.
Good news is it’s suppose to get warmer sometime before next winter.
Tan Frío. No Me Gusta El Frío.
Springtime In The Blah, Blah, Blah
2nd rain/cold out of the season today…you know the drill:
Back at it tomorrow evening with a chance to scrub a doubleheader.
Get A Haircut Hippies
Elderly Woman: Hippies?
Eric Cartman: Yeah, they’ve been poppin’ up all over town lately. The boys next door had hundreds of hippies in their soccer stadium; they usually live in colonies. Hm, I don’t like the sound of that. Could I take a look at your ball field?
Their hippies beat our hippies 12-8. Sox fall to 1-1 on the young season.
Battle of the Wolf-People
Our New Sox, your BrewSox, won their opener 7-5 over the Nashville Sounds yesterday in the torquing east wind swept, frozen confines of Security Service Field at Mile High. 1-0! Yeah team!
Here’s kind of what happened:
AND! And there was a battle of Wolf-People!
It got hairy in the 8th & 9th as the Sounds clawed back 3 runs to make it close, but the New Sox hung on for the win.
Tonight at 635pm it’s John Ely vs Barry Zito (who was great on the Chris Isaak Show, SE3EP3, in 2004. Watch it! Oh, YOU CAN’T BECAUSE SOME BASTARDS WON’T ALLOW IT OUT ON DVD, OR NETFLIX, OR ANYTHING! OH, HOW I HATE THEM BASTARDS!). Sorry. I really liked that show. To make it up to you here’s a picture of a little man on a baseball, or a normal man on a giant baseball. Enjoy!
Headshot Madness
Today is Opening Day of the 2015 Pacific Coast League season for the new look Colorado Springs Sky Sox! The Rockies prospects are gone, replaced by some future Brewers we hope can help make us forget 2014’s 54-90 clinic in indifference and terrible baseball. Go Sky Sox! Go Brewers! Yeah baseball!
So, a new season means we got to take new headshots yesterday. Below, for comparison, are a few classic shots along with my favorites from this season. Check ’em out and let us know what you think:
And the Gold Standard of Sox headshots:
Now here are this year’s contenders:
Those are your 2015 Colorado Springs Sky Sox. Let’s make a contest out of this, Tweet your favorite to @PengoSports with the hashtag #HeadshotMadness. We’ll announce a winner by the end of the opening homestand and there will be much rejoicing and we’ll name an award after the winner. Yeah.
Yup. There’s A Potato Bowl
Air Force v Western Michigan play today in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl at 345pm on ESPN Proper. Give it a gander.
And now, some pictures of potatoes, and/or Idaho, to get you in the mood:
And now, a B-1 flying over Falcon Stadium and into the clouds (better than potatoes any day if you ask me).
Anyways, enjoy the game. It might just feel like you’re there if you eat a potato while watching it. Bon appétit!
102nd Grey Cup!
Calgary Stampeders battle the Hamliton Tiger-Cats for the 102nd Grey Cup TODAY at 4PM MDT on ESPN2! Ticats v Stamps dammit! Grey Cup dammit!
And! The national anthem (Canadian) will be performed by “Canadian jazz-pop sensation” Nikki Yanofsk! then “Imagine Dragons will rock the half-time show of the 102nd Grey Cup this November 30th at B.C. Place in Vancouver.”*
This will give everyone something to do until 630pm when the Broncos/Chiefs starts on NBC proper. Truth be told, if the Grey Cup is a close at that point I’m riding that horse to the finish. Yee Haw!
Now here’s a picture frame I found on the interwebs today. Enjoy the games!
*Quotes are from CFL.ca. I don’t know who the hell Nikki Yanofsk is. I don’t even know what it takes to be a “Canadian jazz-pop sensation”, but I will take the word of the Canadian Football League that Nikki Yanofsk is one.
The Misadventures of NM Lobos
The final episode of The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo aired on May 5, 1981. On October 18, 2014 Air Force beat the New Mexico Lobos 35-31. What’s the connection, besides the Lobo thing? Hell if I know, but I do know that a B.J. and the Bear spinoff is only a couple of degrees of separation away from connecting something to anything, like Sheriff Lobo and an Air Force football game. So there.
in the 3rd quarter of the Falcons 35-31 victory over New Mexico.
Their next home game is against Nevada on November 12th at Noon. Tickets are cheap. The setting is beautiful. And the team isn’t half bad this year. Come out and support your Air Force Falcons.
Now here’s a pyramid of Gatorade stuffs the Lobos’ staff constructed.
Cousins, Identical Cousins!
Meet Brock, who’s lived most everywhere,
From Zanzibar to Barclay Square.
But Joc’s only seen the sights
A boy can see from Brooklyn Heights — What a crazy pair!
But they’re cousins,
Identical cousins all the way.
One pair of matching bookends,
Different as night and day.
Where Brock adores a minuet,
The Ballet Russes, and crepe suzette,
Our Joc loves to rock and roll,
A hot dog makes him lose control — What a wild duet!
Still, they’re cousins,
Identical cousins and you’ll find,
They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike —
You can lose your mind,
When cousins are two of a kind.
A Salute to Binary Code!
Earlier this season, June 15th to exact, the Sky Sox and Salt Lake Bees held their Salute to Binary Code Night:
Security Service Field at Mile High scoreboard.
Alas, no “insect overlords” showed up to be “welcomed” and the crowd went home disappointed. They were able to see the Inanimate Carbon Rod, so that perked them up a tad before leaving.
Rudi Stein Player(s) of the Game
Rudi Stein
Saturday’s Rudi Stein Player of the Game Award goes to Tim Wheeler and Dustin Garneau:
Congrats boys! Back to back in the backs hit by pitches! Exciting, and painful!
We’ve Got a Lot of Losses…
Rockies manager Walt Weiss held a closed door team meeting before last night’s game against the Diamondbacks. He emphasized to the team that it wasn’t their effort that was the problem, but a lack of execution. Here’s our guess for how it went (NSFW language):
The pep-talk seemed to work with the team for 2.5 innings. They jumped out to a 3-1 lead, but crapped the bed after that. De La Rosa gave up a 3 run bomb to Mark Trumbo in the bottom of the 3rd, the bullpen, Kahnle and Masset gave up 10 runs in 2 innings of work, including a 9 run 8th to put the game away. So much for inspirational speeches.
Reno 911 – COS
Because he’s the hero Colorado Springs deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we’ll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian. A watchful protector. He’s Ben Paulsen.
Lose the beard, sport the ‘stache and this crap writes itself. Thanks Ben!
BRONCOOOOS!
Revenge game! Broncos host the Seahawks tonight at Mile High hoping to redeem themselves for that 43-8 thumping in Super Bowl 48 (not really. It’s just a shitty preseason game that injects more cash into the owner’s pockets while not having to pay the players. Manning plays a series. Are the tickets priced accordingly? Nope. Full-price suckers! It’s like watching the future of the Arena League on a full-sized field!).
Anyhoo…Game is on KKTV 11 starting at 700pm. Ron Zappolo and John Lynch have the call. Here’s something that’s more entertaining that tonight will be:
Rain Delay
Tonight’s Sky Sox game was rained out. But, before it’s rained out there is a rain delay. And during a rain delay stuff happens. Like this:
There was also a karaoke contest and a lot more rain. The karaoke contest is what finally chased me out of there. Sounded like cats being boiled. Lots and lots of cats.