Thrills, chills, apprehension await San Diegans as Aztecs play in Elite Eight, Padres open 2023 season
Starting this morning, San Diego, Silicon Bank By The Sea, Proprietor of 101 Ash St., the City That Major Championships Forgot, finds that it’s coughed up much of the crap in its neck and enters one of the biggest sporting weeks in its history.San Diego State’s men’s basketball team, after waving back the Tide, defeating No. 1 Alabama in the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16, for the first time has reached the Elite Eight and will play Creighton for a posh cabin in the Final Four.
This is the most anticipated voyage in the history of the organization, and it embarks Thursday vs. Colorado at Petco, which could become the Wild Animal Park. And yet their only recent World Series title came in COVID-trimmed 2020 — and, despite ladling out billions from payroll pot, their last championship before that was in 1988.
If everyone had career years, this team would win 120 games. Can’t expect that to happen, but, man, they should be hard to play. There will be no rest for opposing pitchers. Besides playing better than Alabama, it’s no secret why the Aztecs painted the Tide crimson. They were older, wiser, tougher, defended like mad men, and coachBill Walton
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