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For those interested in tonight's rugby game.

South Africa vs Argentina starts at 21h10 SAST.

GO BOKKE!

On Saturday morning I attended a Heli-Smack-Fest in South Miami.
It was a 3-day multi-fest that included competition, sport flying and exhibition stunt flying where some of the best pilots were in attendance.

All of the top flyers were sponsored by hobby manufacturers so you can see groups of them in team shirts and hats advertising the products they fly.

I got up close (30 feet) to one guy's flight. He is regarded the best in the world and many of his maneuvers were so fast I couldn't figure them out as his helicopter flew by at over 90 miles per hour!

I rated him as the 'Eddie Van Halen of Helicopters'



Video from a previous event.

About time, but why wait until Oct. 23? They already missed the first two weeks, now it'll be 6 weeks before they ever start play. They should have never cancelled in the first place.

Due to Covid-19, it will be a strange season.
Indeed, there will be no pre-season games.
They are literally kicking off tomorrow night
with the Texans visiting the Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs.

Now baseball has had their problems with Covid-19,
quite a few games had to be postponed due to infections,
and that's a MUCH more socially distanced game than American football.

So, for a game with many huddles and lots of physical contact,
it will be interesting to see how they will take virus spreading precautions.
Perhaps instead of water bottles, there will be sanitizer bottles
rushed out to huddles.
The next superbowl champions may be the team with the most players infection-free.

Nonetheless, I'll be watching.

Like there really should be any debate on which two are better than the other. Lets face it, Michael Jordan wins hands down. LeBron James is more of a "poor mans" Jordan.

Like to add your thoughts on this topic, feel free...

After a very nice weekend, I rolled out of bed this morning and got changed for my playoff game
in the fast pitch league.

Last week we lost the first of a best of 3 series, despite having all our good hitters and fielders there.
So, this game and the next one are crucial,
if we want to continue on to the championship series, which of course we do.

I was very aggravated during our loss. Indeed, the other good players were aggravated too.
Our manager is a very nice guy, but unfortunately an idiot.
Plus, he found a sponsor for the team, so we don't pay anything to play.

Nonetheless, the whole year I have been complaining about our line-up.
1/2 of our team is made up over very good hitters and about 2/5 of it are people who should have
retired from softball over a decade ago, and the rest are somewhere in between.

Our very nice coach wants everyone to play and his idea is to
also distribute the bad hitters evenly throughout the line-up.
What this does is kill just about every rally.

I have been preaching, "NO ! You want to bunch the hitters together, so that we score runs."
His retort is that, "then some innings we will have no chance to score runs."
I said, "the way you do the line-up, we have little chance to score runs every inning.
That's why we only scored 1 run the whole game."

So, he threw the book down and said, "you think you know better, you do it and lets see what happens."

What happened this morning is we scored 3 runs in the first inning and went on to win 9 to 4 against that same team and that was without having one of our best hitter/fielder.