Earlier this week I wrote about Jorge Posada and his New York sized ego. It is players like that who give pro athletes a bad name. Fortunately enough there are still guys out there like Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina. What Molina did yesterday went above and beyond anything you could ever expect of a professional athlete. A 12 year old boy from the Domincan Republic was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor. He just so happens to be a gigantic baseball fan, notes Yadier Molina as his favorite player and wanted to be a professional baseball player, even if it was just for a day. What did Molina do? Not only did he fly the boy and his family in for last night's game against the Phillies; he gave the boy the royal treatment. The young fella was given a Cardinals uniform and threw out the first pitch but he also got to spend the entire game on the Cards bench, got a 'point' from Molina after he doubled in the seventh and got to take part in the on field celebration following the Cardinals walk off victory in the ninth inning. Yadier Molina, you are everything that is great about baseball. So Jorge Posada, next time you want to pout about getting paid millions of dollars and my gosh, be expected to bat ninth, sit down, give your head a shake and realize you are nothing but a selfish anus.
NHL Play - offs are back in full swing after a day off on Monday, and holy Batman...Tyler Seguin is carrying the Bruins on his back. The kid who sat out the entire first two rounds was only put in the line - up because of an injury to Patrice Bergeron...his response? How about six points in less than 24 minutes of combined ice in the first two games of the Eastern Conference Final?
Fortunately for the Bruins periods in a standard NHL game are only twenty minutes because a minute longer last night and the Lightning force OT. I know that Boston earned a split and put six goals on the board but I am still not overly impressed by them aside from the antics of Seguin. Why....because Tampa only played in the third last night and nearly overcame a three goal deficit. Mark my words..Tampa WILL win both games in Florida.
The Canucks and Sharks renew hostilities tonight in Game Two. Ryan Clowe has promised the Sharks will be more physical on the forecheck and said that a few Canucks dmen can expect to 'kiss' the glass a few times. I love it! I also love the fact that Joe Thornton challenged Ryan Kesler to drop the mitts before the puck was ever dropped in Game One...it would only had been better had Kesler accepted and eaten a few rights from Big Joe. I expect tonight to be another close affair and am crossing my fingers the Sharks go back to Caly with a split.
The NBA Western Conference Play - offs started last night in Big D and the Big D may not mean Dallas anymore. After last nights performance, it should stand for Dirk, as in Dirk Nowitski who had a game for the ages last night pumping home 48 points, often in the face of Thunder forward Serge Ibaka who short of assaulting him played tremendous defence on the big German. Added to the fact that Nowitski missed only two shots from the field all night is the 24 free throws he made without a miss. While you would think an iconic performance like that would equate to a convincing win, Thunder stud Kevin Durant threw down 40 of his own in a nine point Maverick victory. If the entire series is anything like last night, I WILL be watcing more NBA basketball in the immediate future.
And to golf where we Saskatchewan golf fans are eagerly awaiting the return of Graham Delaet to the tour. The Weyburn native who schooled me many times as a junior is set to tee it up on the Nationwide tour starting on June 2nd. He will follow that up with an attempt to qualify for the U.S. Open before he decides when to return full time to the PGA tour. Those that haven't heard much of Delaet will soon as he is the best Canadian golfer to come around in a long time.
And that is it for today.
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