- Hats off to Jered Weaver of the Anaheim Angels for givings Angels fans something to celebrate by throwing the second no-hitter of the season. Anaheim dominated the Minnesota Twins 9-0. Weaver struck out nine batters in the victory and went to 4-0 on the season. LP Liam Hendriks fell to 0-2.
- The football world suffered a great loss at the death of future NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Junior Seau. Seau committed suicide yesterday. Hopefully this isn't a sign of things to come with former NFL players. Former Chicago Bears CB great Dave Duerson and one of his former opponents, former Philadelphia Eagles CB Andre Waters also committed suicide. Both Waters' and Duerson's autopsies revealed brain damage from the concussions they suffered as players. Seau was an old school hard hitting linebacker. He will be missed.
- The NFL has handed down its suspensions of current and former New Orleans Saints players from the Bountygate scandal. LB Jonathan Vilma received the worst punishment, getting suspended for the entire season. DE Will Smith (4 games), former Saints LB Scott Fujita, (3 games) and DE Anthony Hargrove (8 games) also received suspensions. There's a lot of chatter on both sides of the argument, from too harsh and lack of due process to the suspensions being more than fair. If the NFL has smoking gun evidence, then the suspensions are fair. If the NFL only has hearsay and no hard evidence, then the players should win on appeal. Regardless of who wins, this will probably not help the NFL in the class action lawsuit the former players filed.
- Drum corps season starts next month. Back in the day, the first contests usually for junior drum & bugle corps began on the first weekend in June. The first contest sanction by Drum Corps International is on June 16. The All Age drum & bugle corps of Drum Corps Associates begin their contest season on the same day. The drum and bugle corps activity is the second highest youth activity in the country next to sports. The activity changed a lot of lives for the better, including mine. Let's support the activity and if you or people you know are too old to march in the junior corps, find an all age corps and get back to playing music. There will be "On this day" entries for drum corps, but as with baseball, the entries will be posted when I can post them.
- Speaking of posting, if this was a Last Place Update, the 6-18 Minnesota Twins, fresh from getting no-hit by the Anaheim Angels, lead the 7-16 Kansas City Royals by a game and a half for Kings of the Cellar. The defending champion Houston Astros are 11-14. The honorable mention would go to the 12-12 Detroit Tigers for going 3-7 in their last 10 games.
- On this day in 1978, Mother Nature gave our local weathermen a reality check on predicting rain. The evening before, the local New Orleans weathermen said the city had a 20 percent chance of rain and would have maybe a few showers. Yeah...right. The downpour began early in the morning and never let up. By 6:30, the streets began to flood. By 1:00, the high school I attended turned into one big lake and the principal was authorized to declare an early dismissal. The rain finally stopped at about two or three in the afternoon. What happened? A cell of rain developed over the city and never moved, although the rest of the storm connected to the cell moved northeast. By the time the cell dissipated, it had dropped a good six inches over parts of the Greater New Orleans area and caused a lot of flood damage. Luckily, we weren't flooded at all where I lived, but at least we had some fun in our high school lake.
Have a great day!!
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