ORLANDO, Fla. — It was another crazy week. Lots of good, lots of bad and lots of ugly.
1) The Winnipeg Blue Bombers looked terrific in that 49-29 shellacking of Hamilton on Friday night. In fact, it could not have worked out better for the Bombers in their season opener last Friday night. Quarterback Buck Pierce threw the longest touchdown pass of his career, 90 yards, to Terrence Edwards, the offensive line played well and the defense did what it had to do to win. Perhaps more importantly, Pierce — who has had countless concussions — ran the ball six times for 89 yards, including a 13-yard TD. His longest run was 30 yards. In the end, the Bombers had 502 yards total yards of offense.
The defence may not be perfect yet, but the Bombers offence should be quite exciting this year.
Just as long as Pierce stays healthy.
2) The Winnipeg Goldeyes went 3-4 in seven road games this past week. After getting swept by Lake County, the Goldeyes took three of four from Joliet.
Despite the bump in Lake County and Sunday night’s 11-4 loss to the JackHammers, the Fish did a lot of good things on the road. The team still has the No. 2 hitter in the league (Kevin West, .335) and the No. 3 hitter in the league (Wes Long, .331), it has a guy with 11 home runs and 34 driven in (Juan Diaz) and even found a guy who looks like a batboy but can actually hit jacks. That’s right, rookie second baseman Prove Kendall is hitting .316 with two long flies.
The Goldeyes are now 24-19 on the season and will open a three-game series against first-place Kansas City tonight. If this team can get three solid starts this week, it has a good chance to be 26-20 or even 27-19 coming home.
3) The officiating in the World Cup and the umpiring in Major League Baseball is still stinky, so I’m not going to whine about it anymore. Suffice to say the jackass behind he plate in the Detroit-Seattle game this afternoon looked as if he was on Cliff Lee’s payroll. The strike zone was so bad, it looked like something was up.
Then again, anyone who claims that Northern League umpiring is bad has not paid any attention to the Major Leagues this year. It’s brutal on good days. MLB needs replay very badly.
4) Speaking of the World Cup, I have Germany and the Netherlands on my Sport Select ticket this week. I have Germany on Sunday.
Don’t forget, we start with NCI and Streetz 104.7 on Tuesday morning, Scott Taylor/River City Sports World Cup Reports are on 92-CITI all week, Scott Taylor/Valour Tri-West Insurance Blue Bomber Reports continue all season on NCI, the next edition of ONE Magazine goes Aug. 19 (there’s a great interview with Bomber president Jim Bell) and the next edition of Grassroots News hits the stands on July 13.
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