the mad sports man

 The Atlanta Braves will face the Los Angeles Dodgers after beating Philadelphia 6-3 last night. Divisional round starts Saturday 

 On this day in 1903, the first world series game was played. The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Boston Americans (now Red Sox) 7-3 at the Huntington Avenue grounds in Boston. Boston won the series 5 games to 3 (it was a best of nine).

 Three sweeps yesterday. White Sox swept Houston and will play Cleveland next.  Yankees swept Boston and will play Tampa Bay next. San Diego swept the Cubs and will play Milwaukee next. Philadelphia vs Atlanta tonight to play Los Angeles next. Division series starts Saturday 

 The postseason it here and here are the match ups. They are: Philadelphia vs Atlanta, Chicago vs San Diego, Chicago vs Houston and Boston vs New York. Tampa Bay, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Los Angeles have the byes to the division round.

 Dave Kingman is the first (and I believe the only player) to play with a team in all four divisions in 1977 (New York Mets NL East, San Diego Padres NL West, California Angels AL West, and New York Yankees AL East). Insane.

 Yup, all begins boxing day, with Canada playing Switzerland to open, Latvia on the 28th, Norway on the 29th and Czech Republic on new years eve. All games start at 7pm Eastern Time 

 Watching a video on old baseball traditions. From scheduled double headers, scorecards, pitchers batting, day games (they still happen), wool uniforms, and pitchers throwing complete games. What other traditions do you remember?

 Opening weekend in the NFL is done. What stood out?  Saints lost, Seahawks won. Bears win high scoring game.  How about the CFL quadruple header Saturday?  Fun day there. I will throw in an old CFL stadium. Clarke Stadium.

 First the fun fact. Lee May hit the last ever home run at Crosley Field against Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants on June 24, 1970. Reds won 5-4.  Great labor Day weekend. Except for the rain yesterday. Montreal beat BC, Saskatchewan beat Winnipeg, Toronto beat Hamilton and Edmonton beat Calgary. 3-1 in my pickems. This weekend has Ottawa at Toronto at 11am, Saskatchewan at Winnipeg at 2pm, Calgary at Edmonton at 5pm and Montreal at BC at 8pm. All games on Saturday and all Prince Albert time. 

 From old time baseball photos. September 17, 1954. In the foreground is the Polo Grounds in New York. The Giants are playing the Phillies in an important pennant race game for the Giants. The Phillies win this 4-3 with Robin Roberts getting his 22nd win. In the background is Yankee stadium where Rocky Marciano goes to 47-0 beating Ezzard Charles for the second time in three months and keeping his heavyweight championship.

 September has arrived. Fall and the first day of school is around the corner. Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces on this day in 1905.  Wouldn't it be wild to live in Lloydminster?

 Geez it's the end of August already. Seems like the whole summer flew by. School here has begun already.  NFL season and hockey season is around the corner. It's raining here at the moment. Still grateful for a shelter, getting to eat and snoozing on a bed. Will keep searching for those U-Haul graphics and license plates.

 It was nice leaving the doctor office knowing I lost 26 pounds. Felt good.  Got thinking of license plate and U-Haul trucks. The truck graphics seen since June 1 is at 14, US plates at 24 and trailers at 22.  I've seen one or two Canadian trailer graphics, all but two plates (Nunavut and Prince Edward Island). And seen all but one truck graphic, that being Prince Edward Island. Canadian ones were easier to remember. 

 Day after the women qualified, the men's team qualified for the 2028 summer Olympics. Had to beat Mexico in overtime to do it. They need the USA to beat Mexico in the semis to have a chance and got it.

 So, flag football is in the next summer games and Canada's women's team has qualified. Won their semi final game over Mexico 20-6 and will face the USA for the championship. (No idea which one).

 On this day in 1958, the newly renamed CFL played its first game in Winnipeg as the Blue Bombers bead the Edmonton Eskimos 29-21. Winnipeg beat Hamilton for that years Grey Cup 35-28.

 Key West FL is closer to Havana Cuba than to Miami FL. Detroit is north of Windsor. Derby Line Stanstead is a welll know border town. Some of the US/Canada border is on the road. The rest in town goes through homes AND a library.  Stuart McLean recorded an episode of the Vinyl Cafe from that library.

 Where were you on this day in 1988? I'm talking "that trade." Heard it over the radio and lost it. Was playing Lego with my sister at the time. Now we have teams in places that never had teams at the time of the trade.

 On this day the first ever night game at Wrigley Field was set to take place vs the Phillies. Game ends up getting called in the 4th due to rain. First official night game was the next night vs the Mets. Cubs won 6-4.

 What an 11 days of the Commonwealth Games.  Boat load of medals and track and field drama on Saturday. Canada finished third overall with 19g, 20s, 23b for 62 total. Australia led with 70g, 45s, 56b for 171 total. England was second with 29g, 45s, 36b for 110 total.  I also had a great birthday yesterday. I had a great day. Had fish and chips for lunch at Mr Mike's.  And dessert. A great day overall.