On arriving home after our weekly Co-Rec soccer match (we got beat 2 - 0), Smelly and i found the baby gate flat on the kitchen floor. Mango had busted out of his gated pen. The first thing that Smelly and i did was to make sure Mango did not pee in the house. The first floor, all hardwood, was clean. Then i took Mango out to the backyard to poo as i thought he had not taken his dump yet. Three hours earlier before we left for the match, i took him out for his customary after meal poo. I spent close to 30 minutes with him in the backyard but all he did was to pull, tug and chew on the leash.
After circling around the backyard for several minutes, it appeared to me that Mango did not seem to have any interest in dropping his load. It was when Smelly came downstairs and told me i could take Mango back in the house as she found a big pile of doo doo and a pool of pee in the hallway on the carpeted second floor. I was upset. There we were tired and sore from the match and we had to deal with his mess. There was no point disciplining or correcting Mango as we did not catch him at the moment he was doing it.
Mango: What ‘cha looking at? I did what i had to do, just not where and when you wanted me to.
Mango seemed to sense that we were not too happy with what he did. When he climbed up the stairs in his attempt to go up to the second floor again, he was chased down. After being yelled at for chewing on some shoes, he started whining, like what he normally does when he refuses to give in to my command for him to eliminate in the backyard.
But no one can get upset at this little bugger, at least not long. Mango and us made up later and everything is good now.
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There’s a popular saying that football - what is known everywhere but this country as football - is most beautiful game in the world. But that was not what i saw when i witnessed Smelly and her co-workers played in a match last Thursday. Most of the time, they were not able to even get the ball out of their own half. Almost all of their passes were intercepted and even when they were able to make it relatively close to their opponents’ goal, all the attempted shots were weak.
Now i have not played soccer since junior high, and even back then, i was a pretty shitty player. But after watching how Smelly and her teammates were embarrassed by their opponents, i could no longer stand it. I have decided to join Smelly in this coming Thursday’s match. The soccer boots that i ordered from Adidas probably won’t show up in time for the game but i know my shins will be protected with the newly-purchased shin guards.
It will be very interesting to see how i will be embarrassing myself this Thursday.
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Teams in the American League must be dying to play against the Mariners. Prior to hosting the Mariners, the AL Central basement dweller Detroit Tigers had lost 12 of the previous 15 games they played. During three games in which they swept Mariners, the Tigers outscored the Mariners 30 - 14.
On a 5-game losing streak? Fear not, a dose of the Mariners is a sure-fire way to end it. The Mariners have just finished playing the first game against New York Yankees, owners of the worst record in the AL East. The score is 13 - 2. No points for guessing which team scored 13 runs.
When it rains, it pours. For the past 4 games, the Mariners have been pounded like a piñata on a Mexican boy’s 8th birthday, giving up on average more than 10 runs a game. They are making all their opposing pitchers look like potential Cy Young winners. Against Andy Pettite, a pitcher who had a personal four-game losing streak, the Mariners scored a measly two runs, again, for the 17th time this season.
This is beyond embarrassment. The Mariners have not only embarrassed themselves on the field. They have embarrassed their fans as well. If you are still holding on to any hope that the Mariners will make playoffs this year, the past four games should have completely obliterated it.
My prediction: Manager John McClaren will be fired next week. That will soon be followed by General Manager Bill Bavasi after the June draft. If there is any shred of shame and self-respect left in McClaren and Bavasi, they should resign immediately.
Paper bag night, anyone?
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