Deciding to sit among baseball fans, I wanted to be in the competitive environment of a major league stadium. My fraternity brothers are eclectic and both sides of the boarder. Wisconsinites mingle freely on Minnesota soil. I sat down just in time to see nervous eyed Carlos Gomez bat lead off.
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14 October 2008
Back in the late 1990s, I remember being confidant of the Vikings special teams unit. While they did give up the occasional big return (but who doesn't?), they were generally very good in that area. What set them apart from others, though, was return man (on kickoffs and punts) David Palmer (pictured above). Now, this was at a time in the NFL when return "specialists" had not yet been catered to yet, so most returners were either starting cornerbacks or fourth and fifth-string wide receivers (like Palmer was). Palmer was quick enough to turn on the burners when needed, and slippery enough to elude even the craftiest of tacklers. Over the course of the game, the Vikings could usually be counted on to rack up more return yards than the opposing team.
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Back in the late 1990s, I remember being confidant of the Vikings special teams unit. While they did give up the occasional big return (but who doesn't?), they were generally very good in that area. What set them apart from others, though, was return man (on kickoffs and punts) David Palmer (pictured above). Now, this was at a time in the NFL when return "specialists" had not yet been catered to yet, so most returners were either starting cornerbacks or fourth and fifth-string wide receivers (like Palmer was). Palmer was quick enough to turn on the burners when needed, and slippery enough to elude even the craftiest of tacklers. Over the course of the game, the Vikings could usually be counted on to rack up more return yards than the opposing team.
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10 August 2008
Even if it ended badly for the Mariners, and for Willie Bloomquist in particular, last night's game against first-place Tampa Bay showed that the Mariners still have some fight in them. Though they blew a four-run lead on errors by Jose Lopez and failed to drive home a run in what should have been an easy game-winning situation, Seattle provided some excitement and refused to give up, even with an utterly depleted bench that had them giving up the DH in order to have enough position players. And we got another glimpse of the Mariners' future, at least on the mound.
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