No, no, no. [-X It's "Thank you, sir, may I please have another?". Get your Animal House references right. :D I thought it was 'Please sir, could I have some more?' and was an Oliver Twist reference.
England U-21s lost 13-12 on penalties to Holland yesterday. I had a bet on them to go through. Looked a bit like this (courtesy of the BBC) Young 1-0 Babel 1-1 Milner 2-1 Drenthe (hit post) 2-1 Noble 3-1 Janssen 3-2 Hoyte (saved) 3-2 Beerens 3-3 Derbyshire 4-3 Maduro 4-4 Ferdinand 5-4 De Ridder 5-5 Carson 6-5 Zuiverloon 6-6 Rosenior 7-6 Rigters 7-7 Reo-Coker (saved) 7-7 Kruiswijk (miss) 7-7 Taylor 8-7 Waterman 8-8 Young 9-8 Beerens 9-9 Milner (10-9) Drenthe 10-10 Noble 11-10 Maduro 11-11 Hoyte 12-11 Janssen 12-12 Derbyshire (saved) 12-12 De Ridder (saved) 12-12 Ferdinand (hit bar) Zuiverloon 12-13 Yikes.
Yeah, I was. Partly I was expecting to get soundly beaten, so I wasn't too bothered that way. Partly, its a bit of fun, isn't it? I've enjoyed being involved, so Ziggy shouldn't have to miss out through no fault of his own.
As you know, I listen to quite a bit of minors baseball, and I tend to do it that way (though Sportsjuice is quite good, too) 2nd and 3rd with nobody out for the Cubs.
WELE isn't carrying the first game, though. This must be the first game I've got on - it says WELE on my MILB.com window. Jake Muyco has quite the rate of pickoffs, from the sound of it.