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“A FULL RANGE OF EMOTIONS”
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Saw and experienced alot this weekend, some good, some bad,

PADRES…Team Disabled List.  A very scary sight, the head on collision that knocked out Luis Arraez in the first inning in Houston on Sunday.  He wound up going to Houston Methodist Hospital for further tests.  He stumbled running down the baseline on a bunt.  His jaw hit Mauricio Dubon’s  left shoulder and then as Arraez fell to the ground, the back of his head hit the turf.  He was down 11-minutes in all and carted off with a concussion.  Very scary hit on a baseball play.  This comes on the heels of the losses on Jackson Merrill, Jake Cronenworth, Brandon Lockridge, and Jason Heyward.

DODGERS..They are coming, even with injuries mounting to the pitching staff.  Yosh Yamamoto looks like an ace.  Roki Sasaki has now strung together 3-straight strong starts, and Dustin May has a (1.06-ERA) in three starts.  The lineup isn’t hitting top to bottom, but it’s early.

LAKERS…Hard to believe they seemed so unprepared for their first playoff game, a bad battering at the hands of Minnesota.  How bad?  Down by 27-points in the 2nd half.  Got mugged at home.  Minnesota beat their brains out on the perimeter, taking LeBron James and Austin James out of their shooting zone.  Minnesota used 21-fouls, held LA to 1-basket in 7-minutes, had 44-boards, ran them off the floor with a (63-37) spurt in the middle of the game.  They hit 21-3’s.  How could the Lakers not know what Minnesota was all about?  How could they not answer the physical challenge?  Luka scored (37)..no one did anything else.  Got the number of the trucks Jaden McDaniels and Julius Randle were driving?

CLIPPERS..So hot to finish the season.  So much for that streak.  You don’t get many chances to win a road game in Denver.  Up by 15, the Clippers looked like that was the night to win on the road.  They gave it all back.  Too many turnovers in the second half.  Lost the momentum.  Saw the Nuggets ratchet up some mean street defense, and take the lead.  Not sure why Kawhi Leonard sat out so much of the 3rd quarter.  Why James Harden was bouncing the ball so much on possessions in the second half.  Invited Denver to take the momentum, and they did.  Opportunity lost-game lost.

DUCKS..The NHL playoffs began this weekend, but not for the Ducks.  They missed the playoffs and fired their 2nd year coach Greg Cronin, despite much improved play the second half of the season with a young lineup.  Hard to buy the theory from GM-Pat Verbeek as to why they needed a change after more wins and points than a year ago.  Verbeek gave Cronin a roster that was not ready to play in the NHL, and he nearly coached them into the playoffs.  This was Verbeek’s roster, so Verbeek bares responsibility for hiring the wrong coach.  But it is the 2nd younger coach the GM has fired in a 2-year span after creating the rebuild environment, first with Dallas Eakins, then with Greg Cronin.

KINGS..Bring on the enemy, Edmonton Oilers, with the Monday night playoff game.  Not the same Oilers team, because so many guys banged up.  This series begins in LA, not in Alberta, so the Kings have the chance to cash in home ice chips.  Bet they have some receipts to cash in too.  Call it the Payback series.  The Kings have lost three straight opening round series in the postseason to the Oilers, so time to pay the Oilers back.  LA went (31-6-4) at home this year, and were (10-2-1) down the stretch.

AZTECS…Fans are upset, and they are showing it at the ticket booth.  SDSU finished spring football without a spring Red-Black scrimmage.  They ran what looked like a Fraternity-Beer Blast Olympics for the players.  Fun and games, not football.  Less than 1,000-showed up…for spring football.  This 24-hours after it was revealed season ticket sales have plunged to an all time low at Snapdragon Stadium.  2-years ago they sold (15,973) season passes to open the season.  As of Saturday, only (5,426) tickets for next fall.  Down 33% from last year.  Ticket-Parking prices too high.  The schedule is weak.  Sean Lewis’ first team went (3-9) and they lost their top QBs.  Hard to believe where Aztecs football rates in the community.  And with fans clamoring to see what the new QBs would look like, we get the Frat Beer Blast Olympics instead.  The Athletic Department seems ‘tone deaf’ in the community.  They are cash poor in terms of NIL money for football.  And now devoid of football fans in a city that lost it’s NFL franchise seven years ago.  Only thing I can say, ‘plenty of good tickets still available for next fall.

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