Shotgun Prose

Monday, April 22, 2019

Tacoma Has A New Team

Tacoma has a "new" team, just not a team that is new.

I had never actually been to Cheney Stadium or seen a minor league baseball game down in Tacoma, which is weird in the same way I have somehow never gone to Vancouver for a BC Lions game.

With the relocation to Tacoma, i will not be at every match for the first time in five seasons, but the drive is worth it for the approximately half the season I will be in attendance.

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There are elements of Memorial Stadium I heart very much, including the view from the press box. However, the Cheney Stadium press box has a great view without the treacherous climb and frightening overhang.

Given it is a baseball stadium, it seems the seating situation would be wonky, but this is not bad at all from the standpoint of getting decent seats. I do recommend sitting a couple rows up as opposed to ground level.

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NWSL Regular Season

April 21, 2019

Reign FC coach Vlatko Andonovsky

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Chicago & The Force

Star Wars Celebration Chicago 2019

Sometimes the people involved go on walkabout and are not a part of the no photos rules because they are in the crowd and on the show floor and we step out of that area and get to catch this.

Finn

The pizza is as good as the hype.

I am an action figure.

A great AirBnB

It would have been snowed out anyway, so just going to the stadium itself was still cool.

Level of visibility due to the Sunday storm equaled zero feet, so much like we could not see the top of the Willis Tower we could not have seen down it either. There was no point in paying the dollars to go up. But, i would have liked to have seen the view.

Friday, February 22, 2019

I had been remiss about seeing the Stars

Tacoma Stars 5
San Diego Sockers 9
MASL Regular Season
ShoWare Center - Kent, WA
February 17, 2019

It had been a very long time since I last attended a Tacoma Stars match (1992), much less a Tacoma versus San Diego Sockers match (1991). I was remiss in attending for a very long time since the return of the Stars, and the signing of a certain someone who ended up not playing or being there was not something I could find out about at the time and confused a number of folks in my section, it was cool to get to a match after all that time and also finally see the ShoWare Center.

Other than a couple of odd indoor exhibition tours the USWNT did in 99-00, I had not been to a pro indoor match since the Seattle Seadogs in 1997.

So, I have now seen 5 matches over the eras between the two storied indoor sides. SD has a 4-1 edge in those matches dating back to the MISL 1986 playoffs.

MISL/MSL era:
05-07-86 5-8 (MISL playoffs)
05-22-87 5-6 (MISL playoffs)
03-30-91 10-1 (MSL regular season)
11-01-91 4-6 (MSL regular season)