This collection of entries is from April 05, 2003.
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San Antonio really matches-up pretty well with the Wolves, which is not necessarily a good thing. No one scored on power play chances on either team. The boys were up 4-1 after 2 periods, and almost blew the game in the last 5 minutes of the game and we barely got out alive. After the game was what has now become the annual "Shirts off their backs" promotion, where fans, over the course of the season, won the opportunity to get a game-worn alternate jersey from a player, on the ice, after the conclusion of the game. (I just can't imagine how they smelled...) It's also Fan Appreciation weekend, so every got a scratch-and sniff card... wait... that's scratch-and-win card to get Wolves merchandise trinkets, and some good stuff up to a trip to Las Vegas. No good winners for us, though. Very sad on the way out of the arena - tonight was the last Adopt a Dog night of the season and we saw at least one dog that didn't make the cut. Was somewhat sad seeing the dog and it's handler looking a little depressed. End of the regular season tomorrow with same team... should be interesting, as it looked like there was quite a bit of tension out there. Also, the Wolves have 98 points for the season - would be nice to finish with 100, though it will mean absolutely nothing for the seeding in post-season play. the Rampage, on the other hand, could fall from their 5th spot (we're 4th) and we may not play them in the first round (and, after looking at tonight's matchup, it could be a doosy of a series that we may not get out of successfully).
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OK, so would you trade your 37 degrees and cloudy with light rain for 32 degrees and partly sunny?
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I admit it - I wimped out. We went directly to the Stadium Club once we got to the park, and parked ourselves on some seats with a view to watch the game. Just couldn't do it. Walked around briefly before the game to see all of our buddies in our section and let them know we were here but upstairs. It didn't feel too out there without my coat on, but game time temperature clocked-in at 32 degrees and winds at 15 mph.
I was disturbed yesterday that I didn't hear the usual stadium announcer Gene Honda. When I didn't hear him again today, I just had to go to Customer Service to find out what was happeneing. It turns out that Gene is doing NCAA tournements, so he was unavailable for the weekend. *Whew* - I mean, he's the "voice" of the stadium and not the person who was there that sounds like Tom Schaer (I think it really was Schaer).
The game was great. Mark Buehrle pitched a good game - 8 innings, 3 hits. Rick White cleaned-up in the 9th and we had a shutout - 7-0.
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And it's off to go home and peel-off the layers of clothing we had put on so we can put on our jerseys and go to the Wolves game.
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Well, the cable guy left - I have a brand new RCA cable modem, and I'm back online. Too tired to write with so many games in such a small amount of time, not to mention FTP'ing my images someplace else and changes hundreds of webpages. Oh, well, it'll get done some day...