Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Longview

Argh. Pretty crappy Monday for this sports fan. Oh well. UCLA has 2 more years to go, (as does Cal–technically if nothing else), and, if everyone stays, a Florida-UCLA rivalry could be something amazing.

Meanwhile, despite Marcos Breton’s pessimism–BTW he did a great book on the A’s and Miguel Tejada several years ago–we got 161 games to go, and 2 more in this series.

posted by Jeff Chang @ 8:44 am | 3 Comments

3 Responses to “Longview”

ChiTownFilos says:

April 4, 2006 at 9:19 am

Your boys got nothin’ to hang their heads about, bruh. No one in the tournament field would’ve beaten the Gators last night. They played a near perfect game.
ronnie brown says:

April 4, 2006 at 9:24 am

UCLA’s lack of consistent offensive firepower finally caught up with them…but they’ll be back.

btw, i’m workin’ the L.A. Times Festival of Books…perhaps we’ll chop it up a taste…
Lori says:

April 4, 2006 at 4:41 pm

Cubs won, though.

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