By Seth Herrold, R-T Sports Editor
So basically this is an experimental column here. I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with Kansas City Star sports columnist Sam Mellinger, but he does a column once a week called Mellinger Minutes, where he basically asks followers on Twitter for questions, then answers them in the column. I’m giving that a try. If you are on Twitter and want to take part next week, you can follow me @HerroldTimes. I will usually open it up for questions on Sunday nights. If you are not on Twitter and don’t want to go through the hassle of creating an account and following, you can email questions to [email protected].
Now with the explanation out of they way, here we go. I give you the first of Herrold’s Hearings. The name is a work in progress. I also asked for input on that this week. Herrold Hours fits in line with Mellinger Minutes, but I probably (hopefully) won’t be spending hours on this project. Thanks for the questions and thanks for reading.
A golf question right out of the gate. How fortunate for me, as I love to play golf and I love watching golf. This question is one I can really relate to because I first picked up a golf club – not counting a mini-golf putter – in 1997. Now what event in 1997 could have possibly caused this?
That’s right, Tiger Woods won the Masters.
Now, I fall three years above your age range, but I, too, grew up on Tigers Woods golf. Naturally, I think the game is better off having Woods in the field and if he is going to keep improving the way he did at the Honda Classic this past weekend, it will be great for the sport.
Ideally, a strong return for Woods would bring back some casual golf fans who maybe drifted away from the game during his absence. If he can pull them back in, Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas and Dustin Johnson can make them stay.
I will admit, from the time of Tiger’s downfall to the rise of Spieth, I didn’t play as much golf as I did in previous years. I still played, I still watched, but in a far more casual manner. The last four years I have played more golf each year than I did in the three years prior to that combined. My rejuvenation to the sport revolved around one of the young up and coming golfers. Tiger has the ability to do that on a whole different level.
One thing is for certain: Tigers Woods running around a golf course in a red shirt on a Sunday is great for golf and its fans.
Okay, now.
I need to clarify this guy is my mom’s cousin. He was telling me at Christmas I needed to do more commentary pieces. He knows I am a Missouri Tigers fan and I’m pretty sure he just created a Twitter account to rub his Jayhawks’ domination of the Big 12 in my face.
That being said, I can appreciate what Kansas has done in the last 14 years. True, they always have more talent top to bottom than anyone else in the league, but talent doesn’t win on its own. It takes a good coach and Bill Self is one of the best. I can admit that. His job of coaching his team to the Big 12 title this season may very well be his finest in the 14 years Kansas has won the league.
Now if Bill can just get it done in a tournament. The Jayhawks’ track record in the Big 12 Conference Tournament hasn’t been as flashy in the last 14 years. And, in the NCAA Tournament, there’s only been one national championship. I realize that is an extremely high bar and Kansas can take pride in the fact that is the stick by which they are measured. I did hear someone compare Kansas to the Atlanta Braves of the 1990’s and 2000’s, though. That’s probably a pretty good, and justifiable, comparison. Atlanta won the National League East Division title 11 years in a row and only claimed one World Series title in that stretch.
Oh Brent, you have no idea.
This question is as timely as it is painful. Over the past two weeks, my little guy has gotten into a rhythm where he likes to wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning and decide it’s time to play. I usually spend a half hour trying to rock him, bounce him or feed him back to sleep.
It never works.
Ultimately we go downstairs and he plays and plays while I try to close my eyes enough to rest and keep them open enough to keep him out of trouble. Usually he is ready to go back to bed at around 5 to 5:30. Then its a sprint to sleep before the alarm goes off.
I’m really hoping this is just a phase. Grizzled veterans of the parenting world out there are surely laughing at me reading this.
But no Brent, I don’t sleep a lot. it would help if I didn’t stay up late watching TV. Now that the Olympics are over, hopefully I can correct this.
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