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Football in the mountains

The University of Wyoming has redesigned their football field's graphics and it looks so cool. The end zone will have painted mountains, the sidelines have the elevations printed on them. Wyoming written in one endzone, Cowboys in the other all in the school's colors of yellow and brown. 

4 Stadium hot dogs

An infographic showing hot dogs served up at Dodger Stadium, Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium and Wrigley Field. Although not a Cub fan, the dog from Chicago looks the best and is probably the same one fixed up at White Sox Park. Hot dogs sold at Busch Stadium are among the dullest of all. And, often not hot at all.

Click to make it bigger and easier to read.

Teddy R and Katie

Have no idea how Katie stumbled upon one of the Washington Nationals presidential mascots this morning, but wower, there's Teddy Roosevelt. If they show the game day race between all the mascot presidents tonight, I'll be sure to root for Teddy.

The Nats play the Cardinals tonight in DC. 

So who will be able to sit up half the night?

Just looked at the broadcast schedule for the NCAA men's basketball championship game and found that the game begins at 8:20 CST which means 9:20 EST. Does anyone else think this is just a terrible thing to do to fans of the tournament? Does no one in charge at NCAA headquarters or CBS care that this time period might just cheat lots of adults and kids out of seeing the entire game because they have to get up for work or school on Tuesday morning? Or, might just be too tired from Monday to make it through the game?

We follow all the games and results until the end when it comes on too late for over half of the country.

Adult work, child's play

What we've been doing today

Day 3 of emptying out the basin of the waterfall and shoveling out the leaves which sunk to the bottom. Dale began extending the stone wall while Ferdie laid in the sun and watched.

The leaves are mostly out, then came the scrubbing

Oh look, Daffodils. For some reason my mother always called them Jonquils.

Then Lizzie brought the boys over (dressed as superheroes) to fly their kites although the wind was very strong and it blew with strong gusts and downward sheers.

There's Christian giving it the old superhero try.

While Connor...

Gave up on the wind and climbed the backstop.

I got into the act just to see if I still had it.

Sort of

And Lizzie gave new Nick a chance

Nick did not say how he felt about it except maybe ZZZZZZZZZZZZ

How much for a ball park dog and a beer

CNN Money tells us all about how much that MLB ball park frank and beer will cost at each stadium this year. With opening day behind us, take a look at how much money you need to take with you this season if you plan to eat.

In St. Louis a 12 ounce beer will cost 5 dollars and a hot dog 4.25.

Compare to Arizona where the beer is the lowest in MLB at 4 dollars for a 14 ounce beer and hot dogs are 1.25.  Wow a dollar twenty five for a hot dog in Arizona, that's terrific.

In Chicago, dueling teams have different beer prices, the White Sox will charge 6.50 for a 16 ounce beer and 3.25 for a dog while the Cubs are asking 7.50 for beer and 5.25 for a dog.

It pays to be a White Sox fan.

You can check all the other parks by clicking here.

 

 

Ok Jim Nantz

We get it.

The Masters is a tradition like any other.

Red lined brackets

Nothing like Yahoo's Bracket Challenge's habit of lining wrong choices in bright red to make a person feel bad. My bracket is so red right now-thanks Wisconsin and Georgetown-that it's hard to even look at it. It reminds me of my high school math tests, wrong answers lined in red by the teacher.

St. Louis restaurant dishes you must eat right now

The Riverfront Times has a recuring series this year named the Gut Check One Hundred 2013 which lists the 100 dishes you just have to try. They believe these restaurant menu items define St. Louis dining for 2013.

So far there are 8 places/dishes discussed.

While we're on the subject of the RFT and food, how about their 6 favorite sports bars for food?

1. Barrister's in Clayton

2. Joe Buck's downtown St. Louis

3. Lester's in Ladue

4. Mike Shannon's Steaks and Seafood downtown St. Louis (Note: he's opened a new place in Edwardsville)

5. The Post Sports Bar & Grill in Maplewood

6. Sportsman's Park in Ladue

It looks like most of these could be sports bars except for Mike Shannon's which is more of a true restaurant.

Want a bar in which to watch the Billikens in the NCAA tournament? You need to get to Humphrey's.

 

After one day of the NCAA tournament...

I am wondering why I thought no Pac 12 team could win, I had every Pac 12 team losing no matter what the seed.

Bleh. And who picked Harvard? Meh.

At the moment our Yahoo group has our 6 year old grandson in first place. Go figure.