Grasping at Straws

Grasping at Straws

In recent weeks there has been a rather desperate attempt to maintain interest in the goings on of the Wild Family. November was a very bad month.

[] Fist was dragged out of her cocoon and pushed to get out of the garrison and do something "useful."
[] Tiphaine made desultory efforts to upgrade her garrison.
[] Jocy made a half hearted attempt at getting "raid ready," going so far as shaking the dust off her Holy Paladin spec.
[] Wild? Just follow the sound of snoring.

Happy is losing gold every day. The market has gone crazy stupid, selling goods for less than it costs to make them. Insane, but the prices keep falling on many of the goods Happy depends on, and no one wants to consider going back to the desperately dull process of farming materials.

The latest effort to force activity by hunting down a bunch of garrison followers was met with a tepid response.

The doldrums are truly here.

Bored with Warcraft, I can usually turn to sports for a pickmeup. The San Diego Chargers (that's a football team by the way) finally won a game last week. Not that it matters much. The team has a 3-8 record and is blatantly trying to move the team to Los Angeles despite pretty strong local fan support. Los Angeles hasn't had an NFL football team in 20 years, which should say something about the caliber of fans there, but the Chargers think they're the team that will ignite the supposed huge, slavering fan base in LA. If it weren't for quarterback Phillip Rivers (a great guy, always the optimist, eight kids to feed, and HOF caliber player) there'd be no reason to watch the Chargers play.

Winter baseball talk is growing with spring training only three months away. The San Diego Padres made a big splash last season, hiring a high energy general manager (AJ Preller) and given a wad of money to remake a team that usually lives on food stamps. Preller bought some big time talent and fans were buzzing. The buzz had fizzled before mid-season and the team finished 74-88. Now the team has traded away most of the stars they'd paid big money for, and are now trading away some of the better and most appreciated players that are left in order to build up their minor league system (which Preller decimated to get those big name players). The main lament is not so much about being a bad team (Padres fans are very used to losing) and more about seeing fan favorites traded away for what seems little in return.

San Diego has a soccer team, too. I tried to get some information, but the loading page for their website takes as long to load as a soccer game (do soccer games ever end?). I had to go to Wikepedia. I know nothing about soccer leagues, but it says that in 2015 they were 1st in the West-Southern NPSL league division semi-finals but didn't qualify for the Open Cup. Whatever that means. Doesn't soccer keep track of wins and losses?

Hmm, maybe I can find a rugby league in San Diego . . . ok, never mind.