Sunday Funday!

Sunday, June 8th, 2008. Otherwise known among the Mendoza Line staff as "Sunday Funday." An alignment of the stars allowed us to witness something truly rare, considering the sorry sacks that we root for on a regular basis. All of our teams won. All of them. Every single team we care about in the tiniest amount. What can best be described as a complete statistical anomaly resulted in one of my more satisfied moments of fandom in my life. The only blemish on the day was that the Yankees won.

Let me elaborate, with the big three (in my horrifically biased opinion) taking precedence.

CROATIA 1 - AUSTRIA 0

I know what you're thinking. "Croatia is clearly not Padres related, is this a typo? Did I accidentally go to some crazy soccer blog? I WANT PADRES AND CELTICS NEWS!!!"

But as some of you may know, I am a Croatian-American, and therefore I must root for my countrymen whenever they are playing. And since I woke up to ESPN2 (and got a convenient text message from a soccer watching friend) I decided to watch.

Croatia was horribly outplayed for 86 minutes but still won, although being tremendously outmatched by the host country. Sounds like a Padres game, only with winning. Cheers to that.

PADRES 8 - MUTTS 6

So this was the greatest damn game ever. First of all, we got redonkulous seats via our good friends at stubhub.com (the pic is the view from our wonderfully priced 33 dollar seats, 16 rows from the field. Boo ya.)
I had a feeling the bats would wake up for this game, being that it was a day game and the Padres had managed to eke out four consecutive 2-1 victories. One out of every five games, the Padres are legally allowed to score more than five runs. Then they quiet down for a week, then score again. Its a tried and true Padre method of suckitude, and we do it well. Luckily our good pitching timed perfectly with our hitting, and we managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat with a dramatic 8th inning HR by octogenarian Tony Clark. Follow that up with some old fashioned Trevor Time and I can say with confidence that this was the most entertaining game I've attended all year.

CELTICS 108 - LAKERS 102

Dear Jebus I hate the Lakers. Always have. As far as NBA teams go, I tend to just follow my UConn guys around the league, and I'll pull for the Bulls, but I'm generally neutral. Scottie, on the other hand, is a Celtics lunatic. That made this game particularly entertaining.

The C's jumped out to an absolutely insurmountable lead in the 4th, followed by what was nearly the most terrifying loss in basketball history. They simply stopped playing. There's no other way to explain it.

Have you ever been playing a pickup game against inferior opponents? The kind of game where you get up 13-2, then start relaxing and looking for exciting plays to have some fun. Then some random scrub on the other team closes his eyes and starts banging three's like he's the 5 foot 2 asian cousin of Ray Allan (this actually happened to Scottie and I in a pickup game last night. Bad times.) Before you know it the score is 13-11 and you actually have to start playing again? That's what happened to the C's, only instead of tiny generic asian dude, it was Kobe Bryant. If it hadn't been for Sasha Vujacic (Serb, so I don't care for him) thinking he should shoot a contested three at the end of the game, they might have actually come back. They shrank a 24 point lead with 7:30 left to freakin 2 POINTS!!!! with :36 left. Stupid.

OTHER VICTORIES
- Red Sox 2, Mariners 1: Shout out for Scottie and his crazy Boston people. Hey it's better than the Yankees.
-Pittsburgh 6, Arizona 4: YAAAAAARRRRRGH go Pirates! I love watching AZ's lead on the NL West shrink and allowing my previous prediction to come closer to fruition. Call me Carnac baby!
-Sunlight 100, Scottie's face 0: When attending Padres day games, one must wear sunscreen or a hat. Scottie ignored this rule, and now looks like the Kool Aid guy.