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Eat Your Heart Out Mobile, Alabama!

Sunday morning, I woke up to the most beautiful thing I’d witnessed in awhile…the sun. It was so bright, that I could hardly keep my eyes open…the kind of sunlight you curse when you’re trying to grab an extra hour of sleep on the weekend. But I welcomed it, and started the day with a smile, a stretch…and I almost belted out the tune from Song of the South. Almost. But I’m not much of a morning person, so my glee was limited. On a normally quiet day, the sound of lawn mowers and weedeaters filled the air. Some, including yours truly, opted to wash their cars even with the realization that by the next day, it would be caked with road grime all over again. It’s raining now. When you read this, it’ll probably be raining. This is just so ridiculous. I decided to snap a picture of the gloom so that you could share the mood with me.

Mobile, Alabama is the rainiest city in the U.S. San Antonio is well on its way.

This Week’s Forecast
According to the National Weather Service, here is this week’s forecast for San Antonio.

• Tonight. A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 72.
• Thursday. Rain and thunderstorms likely. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 89. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
• Thursday Night. A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a low around 71.
• Friday. A 50 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Cloudy, with a high near 88.
• Friday Night. A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a low around 74.
• Saturday. A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a high near 89.
• Saturday Night. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 75.
• Sunday. A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 91.

Great. So, if my blog posts carry undertones of depression, anger, and sadness you now know why. Have a great day, folks. (That was sarcasm, by the way).

By the way, for those of you from San Antonio…you can view real-time road closures on the City of San Antonio Public Works website.

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Foul Ball Claims Life of Beloved Baseball Coach

You may have read or heard by now about Mike Coolbaugh, a coach killed during a minor league baseball game on Sunday night. He was struck in the head by a foul ball during a game in Arkansas. Talk about a freak accident.

Coolbaugh, a batting coach for the Tulsa Drillers, was standing in the first base box. He was only 35. Mike was from San Antonio, and attended Roosevelt High School with a good friend of mine. David Flores of the San Antonio Express-News reminds us of another incident that occured nearly 18 years ago.

Another accident in a memorable locker-room incident 18 years ago this fall tarnished Coolbaugh’s senior football season and ended the late John Ferrara’s career as a public-school coach.

With his team trailing Judson 21-0 at halftime of a key district game on Oct. 28, 1989, an angry Ferrara hurled a clipboard at a wall in frustration.

Unfortunately, the object hit Coolbaugh in the face and cut him badly. He had to be taken to the hospital and Ferrara was fired as the Rough Riders’ coach a few days later.

Even though he went on to a long pro baseball career after graduating, Coolbaugh never escaped his association with that infamous incident. But he handled the unwanted attention with the dignity that defined his life.

Needless to say everyone is heartbroken over this recent tragedy. Mike Coolbaugh was held in high regard by those he met throughout his life…coaches, friends, fans, teammates. Coolbaugh is survived by his wife, Mandy, and two sons, Joseph, 5, and Jacob, 3, all of San Antonio. Mandy Coolbaugh is expecting another child in October.

If you would like to help out the Coolbaugh family, you can bring donations to any Frost Bank under the Mike Coolbaugh Family Fund.

Mike Coolbaugh Family Fund
c/o Spirit Bank
4802 E. 15th St.
Tulsa, OK 74112

You can read the rest of David Flores’ article at MySA.com.

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Rain, Rain…Stay Away!

Today is beautiful outside. Sun shining, only a few clouds scattered across the sky. And although I’m stuck inside behind my desk all day, I’m happy. HAPPY IT’S NOT RAINING ANYMORE!!!

For 2 weeks straight, it rained. Everyday. All day. And I can’t stand rain. Yesterday and today have been gorgeous. I even got to wash my car…gave it a bubble bath. On National Geographic’s website, they posted a photo taken by a NASA satellite between June 11 and June 20.

About 48,000 square miles (124,319 square kilometers), an area the size of Mississippi, was pounded by rains. Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas were hit with more than 330 percent of their average rainfall. In Texas, every major river basin flooded, an event that had not occurred since 1957, according to the Associated Press.

You can read the rest of the article here.

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Making The Rounds At The Bud Light Maxim Hookup

I remember thinking all day about where I would watch Game 4 of the Spurs/Cavs series…and then the phone rang. My friend, Eddie, was asking if I wanted to hit the “Maxim party tonight”. Uh…yeah. I decided to hunt down the casting calls online (here and here). Hey, it’s a Maxim party, so I was curious to see how Maxim was planning for this thing.

The plan is to throw 25 parties in 25 cities. Two weeks prior to each party, there were representatives out in the local bars handing out invites with an RSVP code that allowed you to register at the Maxim Hookup website.

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NBA Champion San Antonio Spurs Celebration Video

Well. The NBA season is over…many NBA “fans” are thankful. I’m just glad the Spurs won. I won’t have to hear anymore about how the Spurs are boring (they’re not) and whether or not to refer to the Spurs as a dynasty (they are). I can just sit back, relax, and wait to do this again next year. Congrats, Tony! (you know) And congrats to the San Antonio Spurs.

My brother, Jason, made this video from a collection of photos he took after Game 4 in downtown San Antonio. I was there as well, but we never managed to find each other due to poor logistics. The second video is of the official Spurs celebration downtown last Sunday (Father’s Day). Now that the season is over, I can concentrate on Fantasy Football.

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Win For Fin!

Spurs Will Try To Close Out Boring Series Against The Cavs

Courtesy Big Shot Bob in Texas.

Hey. It’s always exciting to see your team win especially in the NBA Finals. But I agree with most of the critics. This series is a…*yawn*…a bore. The lop-sided outcome has some talking about fixing the NBA Playoffs among other things. I’m just glad that this Finals matchup hasn’t gone unnoticed like those of the NHL. Who won that cup thingy again?

Don’t fret Spurs fans. I’m certainly not ceding to the idiots that continue to call the Spurs boring. Thanks to the exciting play by Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker throughout the season, there is no possible way even the most intent Spurs haters can say that any longer…since 2003 to be exact.

Take it from 6-time champion, Robert Horry, who says that this Spurs team is arguably the best of San Antonio’s four championship teams, but that they don’t compare to his 2001 Lakers squad.

What about Michael Finley? If anyone on this squad deserves a ring more, it’s him. Finley is ol’ reliable. He finds his stroke when it matters. In Game 5 of the Denver series, he sunk a franchise playoff-record 8 shots from beyond the arc. So, my mantra has become “Win For Fin!” since the start of the playoffs.

Don’t forget to download the Rob G Reppin My Block Spurs Remix and blare it in your car tonight. Everyone else will…including the 09er and Monte Vista mom mobiles.

GO SPURS GO!!! and let’s WIN FOR FIN!

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A Notch In The Derrich.com Belt

15 Minutes of Fame? Johnny On The Spot, perhaps? Either way, I’ll take it. Last week, I posted a video of the Mississippi Braves Manager Meltdown. I posted the video Tuesday. By Wednesday, I was #1 for the search “Mississippi Braves Manager” (sans quotation marks) or some variation of that search in Google Trends, Google Blogsearch and Google Web Search. As of Monday evening, I am #2, #1, and #9, respectively.

For June 6th, that traffic translated into 27.94%, or 725, of my visits. Of course, traffic slowly tapered off as people stopped searching for it. Normally, I get about 400-600 visits per day. Not super awesome. But, my other huge traffic booster (totally unrelated) was for the Reppin My Block Spurs Remix, which is still #1 on Google, by the way.

In The News…
Friday morning on my way down to the beach for a fishing trip, my mom called to inform me that Derrich.com was mentioned in the paper. When I returned on Sunday evening, I saw that David King, a columnist for the San Antonio Express-News, had included Derrich.com in a list of blogs that mentioned the manager meltdown. According to King, it turns out that the maniac manager is from San Antonio…a graduate of Madison High School.

You can read the online version here. Unfortunately, none of the domains referred to on the newspaper’s website are actual links…or this could have resulted in even more traffic. The mention resulted in a small hiccup in Friday traffic. Hard to tell exactly how much of that was related to the article with no tracking. Like I said before…I’ll take it. Thanks for the mention, David. I’ll try to keep the one-liners coming.

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