Tiger and the Blue Jays

Sorry I have not been blogging as regularly as one should in recent days. Three quick things to check-in on today.

1) The main reason I have not blogged in a while is because I am in the midst of teaching Introduction to Biblical Interpretation to 17 students, all female, enrolled in the new Prairie College of Applied Arts & Technology, specifically the Practical Nurse and Early Childhood Education programs. Feel free to look at the course website.

2) Tiger Woods was simply amazing in winning the 88th PGA Championship last weekend. It was too bad that Mike Weir (the good Canadian boy) faded at the end to finish sixth. It appears Tiger is back "in the zone" and "on his game." An interesting life and leadership lesson that as great a golfer as he was 4-7 years ago, he had to adjust some things technically in terms of his golf game and adjust to some new life situations (eg. marriage, the recent passing away of his father). Some critics that he was done and that he was foolish to mess with his golf game when he was already such a good/great player. Yet to go from good/great to truly be the greatest golfer of all time - something that seems almost certain having just won his 12th major tournament - Tiger had to go through some criticism and difficult days of transition in order to get to where he is today.

3) The Toronto Blue Jays - Just when you think they may be coming out of a slump and ready to make one last push, another "gong show" happens and you know that this team cannot get to the top until the internal "whatever" is settled. Whatever happened last night between pitcher Ted Lilly and manager John Gibbons, both on the mound and afterwards down the hallway of the dugout, was another incident where the Jays clubhouse is significantly hindering a talented team from giving the Yankees and Red Sox a serious run. The Vernon Wells "will he stay in Toronto?" situation has also been simmering for a few weeks and will likely blow soon. My opinion is that the problem goes higher up than the players and manager and goes right to JP Riccardi, the GM. You gotta have the whole team pulling together or it will pull everything apart - even the good stuff!