A Day in the Life

Tonight I discovered xtranormal, that allows you to easily create your own short film. Their motto is “If you can type, you can make movies.” Inspired, I created the following;

A Day in the Life

Nats Nation Descend on Camden Yards

Not really. No metro. Few Nat fans.

Only forty miles but nearly a two-hour grind it out bumper to bumper drive on a Friday night during rush hour on the Baltimore-Washington Expressway (an oxymoron) gets you to Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Where the $600 million Nationals Park exudes a modern simplicity, Camden Yards projects a historic but not quite authentic charm. Its more like buying furniture from Restoration Hardware that looks old but you know it just came off the production line. My favorite feature of the park, see last picture below, is the alley way between the outfield and the warehouse that houses some bars and a merchandise store. You may remember in 1995 when the Orioles organization would hang numbers on the side of the warehouse during Cal Ripken’s streak of consecutive games played of 2,131, breaking Lou Gehrig’s record.

Anyway, the Nationals were the away team and it was the first night of the Beltway series, a rivalry that lacked intensity or intrigue. Think A’s vs. Giants, without the roids.

Oriole Ballpark is beautiful and I do appreciate the O’s fans and their blue-collar attitudes and dedication to their team, and was a great game environment. O’s hitters feasted on wretched Nationals pitching and won by ten runs.

BoSox Nation descends on Nat’s Park

The Washington Nationals rank 25th out of 30 teams in 2009 attendance averaging 22,501. Frankly, I was surprised they were so high but they even surpass the Oakland Athletics who are 28th at 18,400. With the Red Sox in town, the 41,888 seats at Nationals Park was sold out. It was a home game for Boston. I, rooting for the underdogs, went away pleased seeing the Nats win 9-3 and a quiet BoSox Nation stumble back to the Metro station.

That is leadership!!!

Gonzalez approves fee increases after students vote them down

The fees, which will help fund athletics and the State Hornet…

….$18 for intercollegiate sports during the upcoming school year.

The fee increase should help the athletics department not cut scholarships and keep all the programs currently in the department…

Now, how about that arena?

Superfecta?

–noun
1. a type of bet, esp. on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.

I wouldn’t bet on the four Big Sky schools finish in that order, but Sac State definitely has another tough fall campaign. This poll, is put out by FCS Now, a website solely dedicated to 1AA football, and a blog worth checking out. I have added it to the blogroll.

2009 FCS Now Preseason Poll Top 25 Rankings

Team, (first place votes), total points

1. Appalachian State (29), 1760

2. Richmond (27), 1756

3. Villanova (15), 1669

4. Northern Iowa (1), 1615

5. Montana (2), 1589

6. New Hampshire, 1362

7. Weber State (1), 1308

8. James Madison, 1212

9. Southern Illinois, 1192

10. Elon, 1089

11. Wofford, 1079

12. South Carolina State, 1072

13. McNeese State, 961

14. South Dakota State, 898

15. Eastern Washington, 794

16. Texas State, 627

17. Maine, 610

18. Jacksonville State, 507

19. Cal Poly, 489

20. William & Mary, 410

21. Central Arkansas, 303

22. Holy Cross, 298

23. Albany, 178

24. Grambling State, 176

25. Montana State, 144

Baseball on my mind

Wheeler makes pro-debut tonight; Wheeler grounded despite draft status

While Wheeler goes pro, the Hornet’s baseball reloads with Blake Miller, the Statesman Journal All-Mid-Valley baseball player of the year Miller.Miller, a shortstop, will play college baseball at Sacramento State.

Meanwhile, Lonnie Paxton of Hammerhead fame, snow angel fame, and long-snapper specialist skipped into town for charity.

No Brainer

Will Davis, a 6′8″ forward from Sacramento High School in Sacramento, California is drawing interest from Columbia, Harvard, Sacramento State, Santa Clara, Pacific, UC Davis, UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara among others.

That should be easy. Sac State. Duh.

Facebook

Okay, one more feature. Sac Rat joined Facebook about a week ago. If you care, look me up, just type in “Sac Rat”, and I will add you as a friend. I have set up the posts of this blog to feed and post at Sac Rat’s Facebook Wall. Just another way to get your dose of poison. With that, I am done for the day. My head hurts.

Add it Up

I have added another feature to the blog. Recently, I took up Twittering and the posts are appearing. My hope is to use Twitter primarily when going to Hornet athletic events, both at home and on the road, to provide immediate updates and mindless commentary. I also wanted to prove I was not Twittertarded.

Now, today, I figured out how to run the Big Sky Conference Blog posts automatically into this blog. Check out the side bar.

Also, I am figuring out how to do podcasts. Maybe, a venue for a fan show with no rules. I think you could use Skype to orchestrate it. Any thoughts or ideas? Talk to me.

Wanless leads Sac State to success

Terry Wanless is booming of good cheer these days. And excuse the ear-to-ear grin.