"I'd say easier, because I went out on good note. I'm at peace with it. I know that I'm not (walking away) just because I've hit a rough spot. I'm moving along to a different path."
Said baseball player-turned-priest Grant Desme, when asked by Dan Patrick on his daily show whether it was easier or tougher to walk away from the game to enter priesthood despite having such a promising baseball career, in particular winning the MVP award in the Arizona Fall League last year.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Yet Another Hunch
I predicted in my previous blog entry that Indianapolis Colts' wide receiver Pierre Garçon would have a big game against the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Divisional Playoff.
I was wrong. Sort of.
While he didn't have great numbers in that game (5 catches for 34 yards), he did force a key fumble that killed a possible Ravens' comeback.
Turned out that my prediction was a week off, as Garçon's big game came the following week, against the New York Jets in the AFC Championship Game. He had 11 catches for 151 yards against the number one defense in the NFL.
(Video courtesy of Youtube)
Next up for the Colts, the New Orleans Saints, the number one seed in the NFC, in Superbowl XLIV. While I have been a Drew Brees fan since his days at Purdue, I just can't see how the Saints defense can come up with a way to stop Peyton Manning and the Colts.
Hope that my prediction will not be off this time around.
I was wrong. Sort of.
While he didn't have great numbers in that game (5 catches for 34 yards), he did force a key fumble that killed a possible Ravens' comeback.
Turned out that my prediction was a week off, as Garçon's big game came the following week, against the New York Jets in the AFC Championship Game. He had 11 catches for 151 yards against the number one defense in the NFL.
(Video courtesy of Youtube)
Next up for the Colts, the New Orleans Saints, the number one seed in the NFC, in Superbowl XLIV. While I have been a Drew Brees fan since his days at Purdue, I just can't see how the Saints defense can come up with a way to stop Peyton Manning and the Colts.
Hope that my prediction will not be off this time around.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Hunch of the Day
Indianapolis Colts' wide receiver Pierre Garçon, one of the highest-profiled Haitian-Americans in the NFL, will have a field day against the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Divisional Playoff, in the wake of the horrible earthquake in Haiti.
Or at least this is what I hope he will do.
Or at least this is what I hope he will do.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Better Late Than Never
Mark McGwire finally comes clean.
It didn't surprise anyone, as Tony La Russa plans to bring this once-mighty slugger to the St. Louis Cardinals as their hitting coach. And after all the years of saying nothing about his steroid and human growth hormone use and disappearing from the public eye, the one thing he has to do in order to make a comeback is to come clean.
La Russa even said that McGwire might be used as a designated hitter next season.
Of all the high profile baseball players alleged to have used illegal performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), McGwire is probably the one the fans are most forgiving about, since he has never denied it (cf. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens) and never lied to the Congress (cf. Miguel Tejada and Rafael Palmeiro). His silence and shying away from the spotlight make fans like Yours Truly feel that he is ashamed of and sorry about what he has done.
Fans are forgiving, especially if a player is sincere about and remorseful of his wrongdoings. That is why Andy Pettitte, an admitted PED-user, has been given an all-clear by the public since his candid admission.
And one has to wonder if Bonds or Clemens are regretting about anything right now.
Yours Truly first paid real attention to baseball in the late 1980s', when the Oakland Athletics, with the "Bash Brothers" of McGwire and Jose Canseco, were the team to beat. That is why Yours Truly always have a soft spot for McGwire, who some could say was my first baseball idol.
And his admission, though years too late, is evidence that he is still worth Yours Truly's admiration after all those years.
It didn't surprise anyone, as Tony La Russa plans to bring this once-mighty slugger to the St. Louis Cardinals as their hitting coach. And after all the years of saying nothing about his steroid and human growth hormone use and disappearing from the public eye, the one thing he has to do in order to make a comeback is to come clean.
La Russa even said that McGwire might be used as a designated hitter next season.
Of all the high profile baseball players alleged to have used illegal performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), McGwire is probably the one the fans are most forgiving about, since he has never denied it (cf. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens) and never lied to the Congress (cf. Miguel Tejada and Rafael Palmeiro). His silence and shying away from the spotlight make fans like Yours Truly feel that he is ashamed of and sorry about what he has done.
Fans are forgiving, especially if a player is sincere about and remorseful of his wrongdoings. That is why Andy Pettitte, an admitted PED-user, has been given an all-clear by the public since his candid admission.
And one has to wonder if Bonds or Clemens are regretting about anything right now.
Yours Truly first paid real attention to baseball in the late 1980s', when the Oakland Athletics, with the "Bash Brothers" of McGwire and Jose Canseco, were the team to beat. That is why Yours Truly always have a soft spot for McGwire, who some could say was my first baseball idol.
And his admission, though years too late, is evidence that he is still worth Yours Truly's admiration after all those years.
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