We spent over a week in Panama City Beach, Florida for a travel baseball tournament. Unfortunately, when we arrived, we caught the end of a tropical storm, so many of our games were delayed and moved to later days.
We went to a tournament that had teams from over 20 states, but every team we played was from Georgia. How annoying.
With one team we played early on, their head coach and fans displayed the worst sportsmanship and fan behavior I've ever seen. The head coach should have been ejected. He was constantly bitching about balls and strikes and was a whiny, mumbling mess when he was coaching at third base.
They stopped the game for a while because they thought our team were getting strikes that weren't strikes. But they were legitimate strikes. And he mumbled something about our team having the umps "in our pocket."
Yes, that's it. Prior to driving 12-13 hours, we somehow found out the refs we would have in pool play and paid them off. We paid off refs from Florida when we're from east central Illinois. Yes, that's the ticket.
Thankfully, that band of assholes got bounced out early from the tournament because they lost their next two games in elimination play.
Jackasses.
If you're from Georgia, you should really be worrying about the state government curbing your voting rights - not balls and strikes.
Driving home through the Florida Panhandle was annoying with so many clowns still having their Moscow Don signs up. Whenever I see campaign signs for that clown, all I think is "Losers."
After a long delay, Tottenham finally a new manager, former head coach of the Wolves, Nuno Espirito Santo.
Nuno wasn't obviously the first choice of the Spurs, but he might be the guy they actually need.
Having watched the Wolves for a good while, his teams didn't exactly have the "free-flowing" acumen that some of the other possible managers' squads epitomize. But we'll see how he adapts to the squad the new managing football director (Paritici) puts together.
The transfer scene will be full of speculation for the Spurs. The biggest question mark is what happens with Harry Kane. Man City have already offered 100 million for him, which Tottenham rejected. But I'd take a sweetened deal for Kane for that money with Sterling and Stones thrown in.
The more interesting movement to watch is which players move to other clubs (Aurier, Winks, et al.) and which players they bring in. From what I read recently, Paratici has already been hard a work trying to find center backs and a striker. I'd like to see them sign Connor Coady from Wolves.
Hopefully Nuno will get Doherty playing like he has in the past for him. And I hope Nuno gets Dele Alli back to being the player he can be.
Nuno is known for working with what he's got and not bitching about what he doesn't have. I want to see Doherty, Rodon, Dele, Bergwijn, and Tanganga improving in a significant fashion.
And for me, I want to see Lo Celso and Ndombele working together well in midfield.
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