WHAT? RIGHT NOW?
My March Madness continues. I picked up Edgar Santana for my bullpen but he had Tommy John surgery and will not play THIS year . . he's my rent a pitcher. More on this baseball talk at the end.
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This should do it.
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I went with balderdash to the Badger game last night. First stop was The Nomad World Pub which serves $1 pints of good craft beer. Once that got the system going we walked to Paisans for another beer and some food. I ordered a Super Hot Pizza and the bartender asked if it was "OK to have onions in the pizza sauce".
ummmmm I GUESS maybe one onion was be OK in the sauce. Do you know what is ON a Super Hot Pizza right?
But I know they are trained to ALWAYS ask that question. Heck when I was help up at gun point at Wilcox Liqueur in Madison as I was handing over the money I asked the robber "Would you like a bag?" so . . . . yea . . . not complaining about questions.
He did not want a bag.
It was a good game and for fun I took the UNDER 140.5. My reasoning is that in the past 4 years the Badgers are
73-55 UNDER
19-6 UNDER in all games -6.5 or greater
13-5 UNDER after a win
18-8 UNDER after 2 Against the spread losses
46-31 UNDER after 1 home game
17-9 UNDER after four games as a fav
I'm a contrarian in all sports except basketball. The streakiest game known to man.
The UNDER was never in doubt
Then as the game is over we head to The Plaza. ODDLY The Plaza had been on DJ and my radar and their secret sauce that we have a recipe too. The the REAL recipe but a clone and I HAD to taste a Plaza burger again . . . even if it was at 9:00 at night.
Secret Plaza sauce contains
1 cup Sour Cream
1/2 cup Mayonnaise
1.5 tsp salt
2 tsp fresh Chives
1 tsp parsley
1 tsp celery seed
1 tsp Garlic power
Pickle juice
I have not tried this yet
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Construction continues
Have you ever thought what you would be if you could do it all over again? I have always wished I was a carpenter or a teacher. Or a teacher that teaches carpentry.
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Meanwhile, Gus wants to go play which his friends that we saw on the golf course but I won't let him
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And of course there is NOTHING like fresh sheets on the bed.
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Back to MY March Madness. My team is coming together. I should have one of the better if not the best offenses in our 24 team league. I will be shocked if I do not and I should break some records with the amazing defense. The hole is left field on defense and the bottom of my order vs. RHP.
In the 50 years I have been playing this game I have never seen a better defense on ANY team. But there are just no quality catchers available.
Pitching? I'm like the Brewers last year. Band aids and bullpen. LAST year I thought THIS year would be rock solid. But one guy (Graveman - seems appropriate) pitched 1 month and hurt his arm. Two other full time starters were injured all year but still pitched ( Fulmer 4.69 and Godley 4.74) so I'm sort of Brewer-like.
The plan is to have 7 good pitchers in the bullpen which I sort of have. The problem is that each guy is weak against a certain side of the plate so there will be a lot of bull penning with my 6 man starter rotation.
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Weather - I think a lot of the high temps the talking heads are foretasting are a little too warm. The snow is sucking in all the radiation and absorbing it. Until we can get rid of some od this snow it's going to be hard to get "warm".
I have hear things like possibly 50s Wednesday and Thursday but I don't think that will happen.
36 tomorrow and very windy so don't get too excited - plus rain. Sunday cloudy and 34 . . NOT that I'm complaining.
The good news is we will not experience the cold we just went through for a good 10 months. Warm weather is just a snow pack away with above average temps in the middle of the week and average for March next weekend. Sun like every other day.
We made it!
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