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Rays def Gardians 11-3

The first of 3 games in this July weekend series playing Cleveland Guardians @ Tropicana Field. Tampa Bay Rays won the first game 11 to 3, with many home runs.

· #1 Fri July 24 3-11, 7pm
· #2 Sat, July 25 0-3, 6:30pm
· #3 Sun, July 26 2- 12:15pm

Rays ranks first in American league East, Yankees second. The five teams standing:

  1. Rays
  2. Yankees
  3. Red Sox
  4. Orioles
  5. Blue Jays

For 2026 season, the 30 teams’ total payroll goes, in millions:

  • #1 NY Mets, $328: the last in National league East
  • #2 LA Dodgers $302: the first in National league West
  • #3 NY Yankees, $292
  • #24, Rays $102
  • #30 Cleveland Guardians $73

Some fun facts:

  • first time reading a playbill -:) b’way in a ball park
  • tarps off
  • $170 jersey
  • everyone is drinking and eating, as are we
  • the staduium feels fine but they’re building a new one

There are few home runs … and dinner at Pulpo is good.

… on the way there …

 

 

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Falkland in World Cup

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So, Argentina defeat UK (England) on July 15, during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, in the semi-final. Then Argentina’s national team displayed a controversial Falklands banner afterward. 够不要脸

Winning a football match, can’t get your island back. It’s only bring up the embassbarsing war your started and quickly lost. Three men couldn’t beat a women from 8k miles or 12860 km away.

We visited Falkland Island and Argentina in January 2024. Javier Milei (1970-) became the 58th president on 10 Dec 2023.

Falkland Island is very British: British rockband music is played, British pound is circulated, English is spoken, … a bronze memorial bust of Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) stands promenintly on Thatcher Drive in Stanley, Falkland Islands, next to the 1982 Liberation Monument, in the center of the city.

Buenos Aires, slogans taking back Falkland is seen everywhere, empty and hallow. Keep that within your city or country is one thing, displaying it in front of the world is, well, is self humiliation.

A brief history: the Falkland Islands, in English and Islas Malvinas in Spanish, are a self-governing British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean. Uninhabited until European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries, the islands have a complex history marked by competing colonial claims and a 1982 war between the UK and Argentina. Before the war, UK thought very little of it. After the war, UK began to pour money … the 2013 sovereignth referendum, on a turnout of 92%, 99.8% voted to remain a British territor.

So, you’re still dreaming of take the island back?

阿根廷在2026年世界杯半决赛中击败了英国(英格兰), 随后阿根廷国家队展示了一面关于马尔维纳斯群岛(福克兰群岛) 的争议性横幅——这简直太不要脸了.

赢了一场足球赛,并不能让你夺回那座岛屿.这只会让人想起那场由你们挑起却迅速惨败的尴尬战争:三个大男人竟然打不过一个远在8000英里/ 12860公里 之外的女人.

我们于2024年1月造访了福克兰群岛和阿根廷. 米莱 (1970-) 于2023年12月10日就任第58任总统.

福克兰群岛充满了英国气息: 播放着英国摇滚乐, 流通着英镑,人们说着英语…在群岛首府斯坦利(Stanley) 的撒切尔大道上, 紧邻市中心的1982年解放纪念碑,矗立着一座醒目的玛格丽特·撒切尔(1925-2013) 青铜半身像.

反观布宜诺斯艾利斯,到处可见“收复马尔维纳斯”的标语,显得既空洞又虚伪. 在自己的城市或国家内部喊喊口号是一回事,但在全世界面前展示这些,那简直就是自取其辱.

简史如下: 福克兰群岛(英语 Falkland Islands; 西班牙语 Islas Malvinas) 是位于南大西洋的一个实行自治的英国海外领地.在16、17世纪欧洲人进行探索之前,这里无人居住;该群岛的历史错综复杂,充满了殖民权属的争端,并见证了1982年英国与阿根廷之间的战争. 战前,英国并未给予该群岛太多重视;战后,英国开始投入大量资金…在2013年举行的主权归属公投中,投票率高达92%,其中99.8%的选民投票支持继续作为英国领土.

所以,你们还在做着收复该岛的梦吗?

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Target Field, Minneapolis


1 Twins Way
Minneapolis, MN 55403

… more pix & videos on Google Maps, Reddit.

Named after Target which is headquartered in Minneapolis and opened in 2010, this open air baseball park is the home of Minnesota Twins.

So the second-last team Twins lost to the last-place team—Chicago White Sox. The stadium is practically empty. Guess I’m alone couldn’t turn the tide.

The box office doesn’t open. Standing in front of Target gate, we purchased the tickets online. That made me missed the national antheme. Boohoo

The ball park is ok. Average. Functional.

The dinner at Spoon and Stable is very good. Something to weite home about.

 

… and the game

 

 

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F1 the movie, 2025

This film (@ AMC) featuring Brad Pitt (Sonny Hayes), is about an aging driver who drives, that includes for Formula One.

A pretty good movie.

The speed makes the film enjoyable. One might appreciates it more if knows something about F1 racing, or auto racing.

Lewis Hamilton (1985-) who’s a Sir now, made a cameo role apparence. Michale Schumaker () and Ayrton Senna (1960-94) are mentioned.

The team has a female technical director who designs the car.

Another female plays the crew member who changes wheels during the pit stops: not sure she’s up to it.

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Tropicana Field, 2025

The home of Tampa Bay Rays, which is owned by Stuart Sternberg (1959-) but could change hand as soon as September. Tropicana Field is under repair (?), be ready for 2026 season.

 

April 11, 2026, after the renovation

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Canyonlands’ yoga

Canyonlands National Park
Moab, UT

A little yoga to stretch out

 

 

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Mets def Marlins

LoanDepot Park

~ Mets def Marlins 10:4. More pix on Reddit

Getting into the parking garage is super difficult – long wait at traffic light, then the traffic itself. There are sections in the garage that are corned off for the valet parking. Seriously, where are the valets? We’re late for the game – for me, the national anthem is the highlight. So I’m pretty mad.

The game is very much one sided. A grand slam home run in the 5th inning by Mets 1st baseman Pete Alonso (1994-), his first of the year, which is kind of sealed the outcome. Mets would defeat Marlins 10-4.

The LoanDepot park is an arena with retractable roof. It’s air conditioned tonight. At Miami Open because there isn’t roof, so the finals are affected by the element.

We’re on the upper deck and there are no cup holders (!!!) – for Pete’s sake, even Van Wezel has. (Cheap seats don’t have them.)

The small box of popcorn is very much appreciated.

There are these letters on the ground – do they mean anything, or just a decor? A, N, O could be Loan but M or W?   … Some fans said it’s a nod to the Orange Bowl.

 

 

… and the parking and the park

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Miami beach volleyball

Saturday is a busy day at South Beach on Miami Beach, Florida.

After coffee on our little balcony, we stroll over to the beach and immediately attracted by the activities there:

Some courts are league competition and a few are for lessons.

… more volleyball

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Chess and jeans

Chess doesn’t make much news. But today the reign champ and current #1 Magnus Carlsen (1990-) who had won five times, said “I’m out, f— you” and quit the FiDE tournament in New York over … eeehhh … a pair of jeans.

He’s from Norway and won the championships five times.

Why the regulation? It seems so passé.

PS. New Yorker followed up with an article a week later, titled What Carlsen’s jeans have to do with chess.

In talking about chess, a Chinese male Ding Liren (丁立人, 1992-) from Wenzhou had won 17th (2023-4) world chess championship; and Hikaru Nakamura (中村 光, 1987-), is perhaps the wealthiest chess player.

Chess ♟️ 国际象棋

News: Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen quits championship tournament over a pair of jeans: ‘I’m out, f— you’

国际象棋大师马格努斯·卡尔森因一条牛仔裤退出锦标赛: “我退出,去你妈的” [偷笑]

大概没听说过 与时并进 [偷笑]

象棋本是没啥颜色的游戏. 如有人喜欢奇装异服来比赛 我会欢迎: 三点 牛仔 天女散花… 通通欢迎
… 不化
小喜欢郎朗多过李云迪 因为朗spunky虎头虎脑活泼些 有些眼前一亮的感觉 虽然很短暂

因为这个新闻 发现丁立人 (1992-) 以前都是ni🇨🇳女娃拿女子冠军
前不久有🇨🇳个男娃拿过冠军🏆 庆祝 … 不过他现在排名22 看来是burn out 倦怠 (?) 不知道’倦怠’啥意思 谷歌翻译给的 = 厌倦? 娃还年轻 希望他找到自己喜欢的路

🇺🇸 Hikaru Nakamura 应该是象棋界的富人. 可幸好的棋手不一定都需要睡汽车吃垃圾

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Yoga on Victoria Mekong

Once we left Cambodia, the ship offers 30 minutes yoga before breakfast.

One of crew leads us. Very basic, more like warm up before my tennis. The scenery is, pretty unsightly but I didn’t sign up this river cruise for the scene.

It was peaceful.

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