Mon.-Fri., May 12-16, 2025
On Monday I entered a new phase of my ever aging life.
Welcome to Camarillo's
The Team at Two Trees Physical Therapy
My doctor referred me to them after diagnosing some pain in my outer left thigh as an IT Band strain.
After my therapist ran a series of tests on my troublesome IT Band, a ligament that connects the hip and knee joints, she prescribed a set of four exercises/stretches to improve my lot.
Truth be told, by Friday these workouts have already made my lot a better one, who knew?
I was surprised to see that
the Gijón Mariners still have
Senior flag games . . .
. . . and Gremlin flag games too
Again, who knew?
This found on the net was
of interest to me
More than the roots of the various Los Angeles place names, I found the outline of the City of the Angels to be fascinating.
The 2025 NFL schedule came out this week.
It included a first ever game
in Madrid, Spain as well as . . .
. . . six other international contests
The Vikings playing back-to-back weekends in Dublin, Ireland against the Steelers in Week Four and then taking on the Browns in London, England on Week Five should be logistically difficult to say the least.
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Awesome helmets/face masks
worn by the 1957 NFL Champion
Detroit Lions
Charlie Ane - RT
Yale Lary - FS/P Howard Cassady - RB
Tobin Rote - QB
I'm not sure why this photo came up on Facebook but I LOVED it!
In the 1957 NFL Championship Game played in Detroit, the Lions (10-4) defeated the Cleveland Browns (9-3-1) by a score of 59-14.
The European League of Football
starts their fifth season this coming
weekend, GOOD LUCK to all!
The Baseball power structure has finally capitulated.
After his death, Pete Rose has
finally been reinstated to the game
A great player who banned for gambling on baseball games while he was the manager of the Reds.
I, for one, don't think that he should be in the Hall of Fame given his transgression and years of denial.
"Charlie Hustle" as Rose was nicknamed
was truly fun to watch
His penchant for head first sliding was joyful too but you can't gamble on your own sport while an active player, coach or manager, PERIOD!
All of the banned 1919 Chicago
"Black Sox" are also now reinstated
These eight members of the Chicago White Sox were held responsible by Major League Baseball (MLB) for throwing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.
The Reds won that best of nine World Series, five games to three.
This leads us into our Thursday night date thanks to the generosity of Paul Sabolić.
Once again he gave us his Dodger tickets to enjoy a beautiful night in the Ravine.
The Athletics
Fourth Place American League West
22 Wins - 21 Losses
The A's are the nomads of MLB.
The American League franchise first called Philadelphia, Pennsylvania home from 1901 to 1954.
The team then moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1955 and stayed there through the end of the 1967 season.
The 1968 campaign was their first representing the city of Oakland, California. The 2024 season was their final one in the Bay Area.
Even though they are now playing their 2025 home games in Sacramento, California, they are officially being referred to as simply "the A's" not the Sacramento A's. They are playing in a minor league park in California's capital city that can only seat 14,014 fans as they await yet another move in the near future.
They will be on the move again in 2027 or 2028 to Las Vegas, Nevada when their new stadium is completed.
Los Angeles Dodgers
First Place National League West
28 Wins - 15 Losses
The Dodgers had the most wins in the National League going into the game.
We needed to get our "Game Faces" on so we stopped in Eagle Rock for a pre-game meal at Max City BBQ.
Concentrating on a Dodgers win
Max City BBQ did not disappoint
We still had some time to kill
so we stopped for coffee at this
Highland Park café
We needed to get to Dodger Stadium early as it was a Shohei Ohtani bobblehead doll giveaway night which usually draws huge crowds.
HOLY SMOKES!
$40 to park a car
That seems a bit excessive to me but somebody has to pay for Ohtani's salary.
With Dodger Stadium having 16,000 parking spaces, they are netting well over $500,000 from every home game from parking alone. By playing 81 home games, they are looking at about $40,500,000 in parking revenues if not more.
The lines to get in were LONG!
As I said, it was a Shohei Ohtani
bobblehead doll night . . .
. . . and we were each given one
as we entered the stadium
It was a BEAUTIFUL night
for Dodgers baseball
Bigger is Better, right?
The game's first pitch
Later in the the game, the first ever
MLB pitch to Dodgers rookie catcher
Dalton Rushing
Laurie took this great photo of
Shohei Ohtani blasting the second
of the two home runs he hit in this game
The Dodgers hit a total of five home runs in this game on the way to . . .
. . . a ROUT of the A's!
That's a LOT of runs, indeed
Laurie's Dodger's bobblehead doll
collection is slowly growing
On Friday, we shipped off another
19 helmets to Europe, this time to the
Gijón Mariners in Spain
Finally, once more to the net . . .
The ONLY Quintuple Double
in NBA history, WOW!
I know that I don't
A good week as usual.
