Monday, April 25, 2016

Patrick's Diary - 4/24/2016

Arsenal didn't want to be a cold bloody killer to Sunderland's fans, so they never made threatening shots. It was goalless and the club of Sunderland is still struggling to avoid relegation though they were out of the zone after this match. For players, relegation might not be the end of the world, some of them could find other teams at BPL if they were capable, some of them didn't mind to go down to Championship League because they might even get more playtimes. The key players whom the club hopes to keep for fighting back BPL might get better contracts. The club will incur the loss, especially for sponsorships and tickets sales. However, if a club has been struggling at BPL for years, relegation may not be a bad thing for resurgency. Anyway, I hope our homegrown Yedlin can play more matches in the next season or come back Seattle. This clip was more beautiful than the match itself.
Leicester was on its way to winning the historic BPL Championship. Ulloa was pretty sharp in this match and that Japanese International I never caught his name had been playing a very crucial role in its front line as a workhorse. Both of them were subbed before the match ended, which gave them the opportunities to be applauded by the fans. 
Right after the match, I went out to get onto my van to go to gym. The house next to Chris' was sold several days ago. I checked on Zillow and figured out the selling price being 420k or so. The properties in our neighborhood have appreciated nicely in the last couple years. Our house could be sold at 420K as well. I bought it in December, 2009 when its price was at the bottom, now it has gained 27% in less than 7 years. However, our rental house had incurred unrealized loss for almost 10 years and it is still a couple of thousands dollars lower than my buying price back in 2006 when it was at peak. Lynnwood High School was so quiet, maybe I should go to practice soccer. It's raining, so I decided to go to gym to workout instead. 
Coming back home to have lunch, I started switching between Mariners at Angels and San Jose Earthquake hosting Sporting Kansas City. One mariner hit a 3 runs home run, which helped Mariners have a great start.
It became an unfair match when referee ignored an apparent foul inside the big box of San Jose Earthquake, however, SKC took a lot of advantages from refs' helps at home in the past, so no one should be angry. Come on, the purpose of professional sports is to make money. Entertaining should be the fans' only objective. Ironically, referee gave San Jose a PK to have them winning the match. 
Switching back to Root Sports, I caught another Mariner hitting a 2 runs home run to lead Angels 9 to 4. 
The following match of Soccer Sunday was between New York Red Bull and Orlando City. The visitor scored a quick goal at the beginning and kept the lead for quite a while, but from certain point of time, they collapsed. Referee missed showing a red card to a NY player, which might have driven a different result if he hadn't missed. 
Before wrapping up my super entertaining weekends, I tried to lock an exciting movie to watch. After searching through all the channels on HBO and StarZ, I decided to watch The Beach acted by Dicaprio. Everyone has been young and crazy. These boys and girls gathered in an island they worshipped as their paradise but eventually the dreams became nightmares. Some of them lost the lives but fortunately most of them came back to reality. 
Ironing the shirt, jacket and pants on the board, I closed the weekends at midnight. 

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