Spector must die.

For a famous music producer, writer, et al to murder a famous actress born in my city, that cannot be forgiven. The Phil Spector murder trial is going on. I say that once he is proven guilty, I think the prosecutors should seek the death penalty. To martyr a person from this sacred city of mine called Long Beach is one of the worst sins an old geezer can commit.

I wonder about our softball team. If they should sweep UC Santa Barbara, will they be chosen as an at-large selection for the Regionals? I leave it to the committee to decide.

Our local baseball teams are on fire. Start with the Dirtbags. Yesterday, they polished off the Dizeks of Tony Gwynn State University, 6-3. Next up is the Gauchos, and I don't like the home team's chances in this series. Note that when I refer to "home team" in the previous sentence, I do not mean my home team.
And what about those Lancers. They are going to share the Moore League title with Wilson very soon. It's just a matter of winning the rest of the games leading into playoffs.

So Nicholas Sarkozy is going to be the next head Frenchie in charge. Good luck, Nico. May La Marseillaise be on your head.

Can our track team hold off an Irvine advance in the late Black and Blue push? And how will the tennis team fare at Fresneck? Stay tuned...

One final note: The Galaxy are returning to the US Open Cup proper. They dispatched of Red Bull New York 3-1 in extra time. Cobi could have done without the red card, but it's a good thing Landon Donovan, Kyle Martino, and Santino Quaranta were picking up the pieces. Juan Pablo Angel will come to no Christian end when we face then next time in MLS play. That guy was lucky enough to deny Steve "Crow-man" Cronin a clean sheet. Should have started him all game.

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Elections, Oracle, and UEFA

While I am savoring the Galaxy finding their winning touch, and rueing Long Beach City’s futility in men’s volleyball (those schmucks played like high school rejects the last game…I won’t trust them anymore), I am counting down the time until the placing my ballot for the city elections. I’m going to be there when the polls open, so I can be among the first to vote, and then I’m hightailing for the Nugget to greet the tennis team on their heroics.

I get the feeling they are rolling off to one of the regionals in the Rockies. If it’s USC or UCLA again, they will get reamed. I found out they are facing Pepperdine in the first round, with the winner to face either Army or Fresno State, a team we lost previously. Ouch. We are getting reamed.

I have to mourn the loss of GreenArcher.net. This is the fan web site of De La Salle University’s Green Archers sports teams. Actually, the site is nothing more than a tribute page. De La Salle is one of the strongest teams in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines, the Philippine equivalent of the NCAA Division I here. (Actually, there is an actual NCAA in the Philippines, but that league is inferior compared to the UAAP teams.) Godspeed to the webmasters of the site; they put in their best effort for 7 years.

I was able to create football teams on NCAA Football 07 based on the colors of the UAAP schools. Naturally, due to Santo Tomas ’dominance on the seniors’ side, I made their team the strongest.

I checked the Press-Telegram to see the results of the election that I voted in, and I found out that all but two of the propositions passed. Meanwhile, Dee Andrews posted a big upset in City Council District 6. I wonder if he’s the same Dee Andrews that brought LBCC a national crown in football in 1960.

It’s declared: Jose Mourinho will be out as Chelsea boss (barring a miracle). The Blues dropped another big match against the Scousers from Liverpool on penalties. I so hope Manchester United kills both of them (but they have to topple AC Milan first).

An ordinary day? More like a day of mourning

It really sets you off your comfort zone when you've got really good things get outweighed by really bad things. That happened today.

While the only good thing that happened was our men's basketball team exacting revenge over UC Irvine 86-80 on Senior Night, at the same time, three crappy things happened.

First, our women's tennis team, who everyone thought would run the tables, saw their season turn into disarray, losing to...wait for it...UC Irvine, 4-3. When I got home, I learned that my older sister forgot to tape the game, AND not tell me beforehand that she couldn't do it, so I could transfer the duties to my mom.

As if things weren't bad enough, danbooru, an image-hosting site that features moe images of every persuasion, was dead. Long like akibakko. Ultimately, the lack of servers, combined with traffic beyond control, was danbooru's undoing. Akibakko.net is now its successor. May she (it means Akiba[hara] girl) reign as the moe image hosting site of the Web from this point forward. Rest in peace, danbooru. You will not have died in vain as we mourn your loss. *plays Taps*