Yesterday

Nothing happened anywhere yesterday.

Red Sox Win by Scoring the Most Runs

Once again, the Boston Red Sox won a game by scoring the most runs. Their record is now 11-11, but they are actually 22-0 if you count all the games they won when they were outscored. If this logic is used, the Red Sox will end up 162-0 this year.

UH Basketball Team

This was in The Honolulu Advertiser today. www.honoluluadvertiser.com. Amaxingly, UH was able to recruit 6 players -- 4 of them high school, and 2 JC. In 4 years, UH might be good again.

By Dayton Morinaga
Advertiser Staff Writer

The University of Hawai'i men's basketball team may have secured its point guard of the future last night.

Bobby Miles — a high-scoring point guard at Workman High School in City of Industry, Calif. — said last night that he is committed to playing for the Rainbow Warriors next season.

"I want to come in there and help the team at point," he said. "I feel like I can contribute right away."

Miles, who is 6 feet 1 and 190 pounds, averaged around 28 points, 14 rebounds and 5 assists as a senior this past season at Workman. He was named to the All-CIF Division 4A second team.

The recruiting website www.hoopscooponline.com stated that Miles is "good enough to step in and make an immediate impact next year in the Pac-10 Conference, and be ranked in the 50-100 range nationally when we publish our Final Ranking of the Top Players Nationally in the Class of 2010 later this spring."

Miles was also being recruited by several programs, including UCLA, Nevada, Portland and Santa Clara. However, he said Hawai'i was the only program that was consistently recruiting him over the past month.

Miles made his recruiting trip to the Mānoa campus last weekend. He said he thought about committing to the Hawai'i coaches before the trip ended on Sunday, but he wanted to talk to his parents first.

"I had a great trip over there and came home and talked it over with my parents, and they said it sounded like a great fit," Miles said. "Everything about Hawai'i just felt right."

During his visit, Miles was in the Stan Sheriff Center for the Hawai'i men's volleyball team's exciting five-set playoff victory over Pepperdine.

"That was a great atmosphere — Hawai'i has great fans," he said. "I hope it's like that for basketball."

Miles said he plans to sign a national letter of intent today, when he is honored at his high school.

He will be a freshman at Hawai'i next season, and will have four seasons of collegiate eligibility.

Miles, who said he has a 3.04 grade point average, is already qualified academically to attend Hawai'i.

Miles is expected to fill a need at the point guard position. A lack of backcourt depth haunted the 'Bows last season, when they finished with a 10-20 record.

Senior-to-be Hiram Thompson is the returning starter. Jeremy Lay, who was Thompson's backup last season, recently said that he would not return next season.

Miles is also the latest addition to an ever-growing recruiting class.

Once he signs his letter of intent, he will become the sixth new recruit to join the Hawai'i roster for next season.

The others are:

• Bo Barnes, a 6-4 shooting guard at Westwind Prep International in Arizona.

• Jordan Coleman, a 6-4 guard at Calabasas High in California.

• Vander Joaquim, a 6-10 post player at College of Eastern Utah.

• Josten Thomas, a 6-7 forward at College of Southern Idaho.

• Trevor Wiseman, a 6-8 guard/forward at Golden Valley High in California.

Gib Arnold was named the new Hawai'i head coach in March. Five of the six new recruits — including Miles — committed to Hawai'i after Arnold took over.

Miles, Barnes, Coleman and Wiseman will all be freshmen at Hawai'i next season.

Miles said he did not play against Coleman or Wiseman in high school, but he has heard of both players.

"It'll be cool to play with other guys from (California)," Miles said.

Per NCAA rules, Arnold cannot comment on recruits until a national letter of intent is signed and approved by UH officials.

Dominick Brumfield, a 6-8 forward at Big Bend Community College in Washington, also made a recruiting visit to Hawai'i last weekend. He has yet to make a decision.

Godwin Okonji, a 6-9 forward at Findlay Prep in Nevada, recently committed to play for Loyola Marymount. Hawai'i had been recruiting Okonji since last year.

200th post in this one also

This is just a catch-up post.

Har har hardy har har.

Potrzebie is a real word. Polish.

Axolotl is a real word.

No post

Why are these words pronounced the same

Post
Host
Most

and these words pronounce the same

Lost
Cost

but the top ones are pronounced different from the bottom ones?

NFT Draft Today

Today is the first round of the NFL Draft. The whole world is awaiting the Patriots, as they are poised to go 19-0 again and win the Super Bowl for the 4th time.

I predict Gresham in the first round.

Others say Kindle, Odrick, and a whole bunch of other possibilities.

Everybody makes sense, so nobody makes sense. Does that make sense?

Red Sox Win by Scoring the Most Runs

The Boston Red Sox actually won and scored the most runs in the same game.

The lads need a vacation on St. John in a villa.

Celtics Game Tonight

The Boston Celtics, the Greatest Franchise in The History of Sport, are ahead in their playoff series 1-0, and have actually outscored Miami in the 1 game so far. Tonight is game 2, and the Celtics will undoubtedly win, even if they get outscored.

Sync my itunes with my ipod

I have an ipod which has my favorites on it. And my itunes are missing some of my favorites since some frigging virus got into my system and deleted some files. I think this happened. But I had a brainstorm this morning. Just sync the ipod (which has a copy of Captain's Favorites) with my itunes, and the missing favorites will be restored.

At least I think that will happen.

Worth a try.

Bruins Win a Playoff Game

The Bruins won a playoff game yesterday, even though they actually outscored Buffalo 5-3. The series is tied 1-1, with each team winning a game by actually outscoring the other team.

Plants

I am going to plant plants in planters today.

6 days to NFL Draft

Just 6 days to the NFL Draft, and the Patriots are going to select 4 wicked players.

Running back
Tight end
Wide receiver
Defensive end

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They really don't need any linebackers, since they have about 6 of them, including a 3rd rounder from last year.

They really don't need any defensive backs, since they have a whole bunch, including picks from last year plus free agents from last year.

A tight end is a necessity, since they have only 2, and 1 is old and the other crummy.

They need a receiver, since Welker is still injured.

And they need a running back, since everyone is old, and Maroney has never lived up to his potential. Maybe this year.

They have plenty of defensive lineman for the middle. End is another story. Just Ty Warren, since Seymour was traded. Of course, next year we get a wicked #1 for him.

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Villas in Coral Bay -- Close to these restaurants

When you rent a villa in St. John through www.stjohnvillarental.com, you can stay in Coral Bay. The villas there are very close to restaurants.

Here is a list of restaurants.

Restaurants in Coral Bay

Skinny Legs -- a local institution
Aqua Bistro -- inexpensive and very good
Island Blues -- right on the water
Sweet Plantains – slightly upscale, featuring West Indian food
Big Belly Deli -- pizza, deli sandwiches, breakfasts
Shipwreck Landing -- family dining
Concordia -- very good cafeteria-style restaurant at the Eco-camps
Tourist Trap -- inexpensive lunches near Salt Pond Bay
Miss Lucy's -- on the water, dinners or Sunday Brunch
Donkey Diner -- excellent breakfasts, pizza
Sputnik -- West Indian roti and curry dishes

Mock Draft

I keep looking at the mock drafts for the Patriots. (The first round is 8 days from today, April 22, birthday of the beloved Captain G. Piecost.) Every single person who puts together has a different selection at number 22.

Get this.

The Patriots have pick number 22 on April 22. That is wicked karma.

Red Sox and Celtics Win

The Red Sox and Celtics both won yesterday. The Red Sox won even though they scored fewer runs than Minnesota, and the Celtics won even though they didn't play.

So there!

Har har hardy har har.

How come this stupid blogger software gives me a red underscore for har?

Meetings

I have to meet Architect Robert deJongh and Executive Director Hobson this week. At least I will try to meet them.

Just a quick meeting to thank them for helping St. John do the Enighed Pond Parking Lot.

And later on, we might be able to help them.

This is what happens

See? I told you so. This is exactly what happens. So next time I tell you so, you better believe it.

Taxes

2 items to report.

First, the territory government is going to issue 2 years of tax bills at the old rates, as in the ancient rates from about 10 years ago. The entire effort at revaluation was found by the courts to be too full of errors to be acceptable. To this I say only har har hardy har har.

Second, today M and I will be attempting to do income taxes. I expect it will be fairly easy.

Runners at the corners

Some dink on sports center said yesterday

"Runners on the corners"

which is probably the worst and most incorrect cliche in baseball announcing.

For everybody in the world who reads this, there are exactly 4 corners in the baseball diamond, which is actually a square. home, first second, third. Runners at the corners is meaningless.

As is the exclamation, "at the end of three innings, there is no score."

Noposting here either

I am not going to post here, and am not going to mention the CZM meeting.

April 22

April 22 this year --

Birthday so GHH and Mares and Buddy Rotondi and Jack Nicholsen and Glen Campbell celebrate.
Earth day so all the green people celebrate.
Draft day so all the football junkies celebrate.
Lenin's birthday so all the communists celebrate.

What to do

M is going to Ireland and Scotland in June.

So I am either going to stay at home alone or do something.

Probably I am going to do something. Maybe I will go to St. Croix for a few days and play golf all over the place.

Maybe I will do a house swap with someone and go to a fun place.

Who knows.

Bruins Actually Won

The Boston Bruins actually won last night, 2-1. They are okay, but they can't score. Maybe the playoffs will spur them on.

Looks like they will sneak in as 6, 7, or 8 seed in the East.

Mr. and Mrs. Pants

The official collective noun for Chauncey Pants and Mrs. Pants is a

LOAD

of pants.

Caca Ball

Did you know that there are a whole bunch of ways of saying caca. I had a job at Raytheon early on, and there was a bathroom stall that had a bunch of definitions for caca. They were in a row, with everyone adding on. When someone added MCREC, that was the end.

Talking about Raytheon bathrooms, I was just leaving one when someone came in and started to pee. He did about 8 giant loud and very long farts while standing at the urinal.

That brings up another Raytheon bathroom memory. Some janitor put up a sign saying "Don't put cigarette butts in the uniral." Someone crossed out "uniral" and put in "urinal." That, of course, prompted someone else to cross out "urinal" and re-write "uniral." That went on for a while -- urinal, uniral, urinal, uniral. Finally I crossed out the last one and wrote in "unrail." I think that was the end, and the sign was removed.

Stuff going on

Obama has a lot of stuff going on.

Health care reform.
Nuclear reduction.
Student loan.
Afghan war.
Financial reform.

He should come to St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands and rent a villa from www.stjohnvillarental.com. That would relax him.