In addition to one Mariners game with the family, my baseball summer will be solely around two teams: the Capital City Bombers and Thurston County Senators. As mentioned before, the Senators are the all-star traveling team portion of the local Puget Sound Collegiate League. The Capital City Bombers are the local representatives in the Roy Hobbs system and,…
Month: May 2011
Holy cats, in my previous blog life, I was a jerk
I’m manually scrapping the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine this morning for old posts from my previous local blog “Oly News Boy” (killed off sometime in 2004). And, man alive, I was a jerk. I know I probably thought the way I wrote back then, but damn Emmett, calm down, would you? Here’s an example: See?…
Thurston County Premier FC (Local summer semi-pro sports Part 2)
2. Second most exciting is the emergence of a Super 20 soccer team. First under the moniker of Capital City FC Inc. and now Thurston County Premier FC, this team will play a two month season in the United Soccer League’s Super 20 Northwest Division. If you find that last sentence sort of arduous, there is a reason for that….
Puget Sound Collegiate League (Local summer semi-pro sports Part 1)
All three local semi-pro sport outlets are either underway already or have their schedules up. 1. Most exciting is the local collegiate wood bat baseball league, Puget Sound Collegiate League. Think of the mythic Cape Cod League or the more local West Coast Collegiate, but just in Thurston County. Most of the games on the schedule…