It has been a long time away from the blog and I had to get back to penning whatever thoughts I have in my mind. I have been too busy at work to think about anything else and things seem to have settled down a bit now.
It has been a busy week with sports here in NY. Red Sox visited the Yankees and got swept. It was a very convincing victory for the Yankees and they are playing with a lot of team spirit this year which i did not see in the last 3 years. They are playing for their pride this year and it shows in their game. It is still a question mark whether they will make the playoffs or not though.
The tour de france finished in end of july and it is one of my favourite sports events. Although, as like last year it was filled with high profile doping cases, it was still a fantastic race. It was a treat to watch the mountain stages and the tour was won by a young spaniard Alberto Contador and the saying mountain stages wins the race came true again.
The formula one has seen one of the most competitive years in a long time. Hamilton, the rookie has taken the sport by storm and surprised everyone including himself by leading the championship this year. It is quite a surprise that in this niche sport a guy in his first season has made such a mark. Mclaren have two amazing drivers with Alonso and Hamilton and they are having some ego clashes. My team, the Ferrari is not bad either and it has been a four horse race to the finish. Each race is very open and is quite difficult to predict a winner. I think the points system is not so fair and it should give more points to the winner or less points to the loser. 10-8-6-4-3-2-1 is not fair. I am looking forward to next year when Singapore is supposed to have a night street circuit and the number of races will be increased as well.
At this point, I think all the sports is filled with doping in varying degrees. Baseball, athletics, weightlifting, cycling and the list goes on. But, the joy a sport provides overcomes these drawbacks for me. The sight of A Rod hitting a home run or Contador climbing the mountains or Hamilton winning a grand prix or Tyson Gay winning the 100m or Tendulkar hitting a straight drive or Ronaldinho scoring a goal or Federer hitting a cross court single handed backhand or Tiger Woods dominating his opponents and many more is worth it.
I guess i have talked only about sports and I will end this with saying that I will be at the US open tennis next week and I am looking forward to the quarter final matches here in NY.
It has been a busy week with sports here in NY. Red Sox visited the Yankees and got swept. It was a very convincing victory for the Yankees and they are playing with a lot of team spirit this year which i did not see in the last 3 years. They are playing for their pride this year and it shows in their game. It is still a question mark whether they will make the playoffs or not though.
The tour de france finished in end of july and it is one of my favourite sports events. Although, as like last year it was filled with high profile doping cases, it was still a fantastic race. It was a treat to watch the mountain stages and the tour was won by a young spaniard Alberto Contador and the saying mountain stages wins the race came true again.
The formula one has seen one of the most competitive years in a long time. Hamilton, the rookie has taken the sport by storm and surprised everyone including himself by leading the championship this year. It is quite a surprise that in this niche sport a guy in his first season has made such a mark. Mclaren have two amazing drivers with Alonso and Hamilton and they are having some ego clashes. My team, the Ferrari is not bad either and it has been a four horse race to the finish. Each race is very open and is quite difficult to predict a winner. I think the points system is not so fair and it should give more points to the winner or less points to the loser. 10-8-6-4-3-2-1 is not fair. I am looking forward to next year when Singapore is supposed to have a night street circuit and the number of races will be increased as well.
At this point, I think all the sports is filled with doping in varying degrees. Baseball, athletics, weightlifting, cycling and the list goes on. But, the joy a sport provides overcomes these drawbacks for me. The sight of A Rod hitting a home run or Contador climbing the mountains or Hamilton winning a grand prix or Tyson Gay winning the 100m or Tendulkar hitting a straight drive or Ronaldinho scoring a goal or Federer hitting a cross court single handed backhand or Tiger Woods dominating his opponents and many more is worth it.
I guess i have talked only about sports and I will end this with saying that I will be at the US open tennis next week and I am looking forward to the quarter final matches here in NY.
