Return of Sorta coach 2130

Last night before I went to bed after taking my shower, I predicted that coach 2130 would run tomorrow.  Tomorrow obviously was today, the coach was out roaring in the cold as I watched the bus run in and out Fairview Loop from my mother’s window.  For readers who have read deleted post of 2130 and Miranda Cosgrove photos I’ve used and uploaded before you might have an idea where I’m going with this.

 Today felt like a day I can redeem myself respect after I lost it over 3 years ago.    The coach broke down before the season of winter on December 16, 2011.  I feared the coach would have been retired and the long quest to go forward in a losing battle wouldn’t come around again.  I walked to handle errands as I usually do on Friday mornings, I took a picture of the Stetson Square complex.  Right across from the street has nothing but grass, but my grandfather lived in a house close by a long time ago so I said to myself, why not take a photo of the complex.  Later on my walk I stumbled on Channel 5, 9 and 12 news vans and cameras around the University Hospital area.  I remembered a friend of mine told me before I left the house the casino construction site roof collapse on some workers including a friend of his.  I was glad to know that all of the workers weren’t seriously injured.

 I waited near University Hospital as 2130 arrived. The ride was smooth, but the accelerator and the safety systems were faulty as usual.  I did a very good job during the ride telling myself a bus is a bus, a girl is a girl, too young of a girl.  I did get photos of the coach lost in the wintry clouds today.  Unfortunately the run for the coach didn’t last long as the coach broke down and was replaced by 924 not too long ago after I departed to Center of Cincinnati Mall Shopping Center.

I’m very happy after trying to fight my demons regarding coach 2130 and Miranda Cosgrove I’m doing a great job and winning in the mess I got myself in years ago. 

Stetson Square near University Hospital.

    

 

Sorta coach 2130 returns after 1 month being shelved for repairs.

Bus Stop in front of Sorta coach 2130.

Sorta coach 924 in the rain in October 2011.  Coach replaced 2130 later in the afternoon.

Sorta coach 2100 at Marburg Avenue cut-off.  Coach was originally numbered 2000 ten years ago.

The Clip Show verses Showtime

Lakers defeated Clippers 96-91 last night.  Another game of pushing and shoving as Metta World Peace (formerly Ron Artest) had to be restrained from coming after Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan after hustling for a jump ball in mid court in the 3^rd quarter.  How in the world could bad blood start in all places, Los Angeles?  NBA told the Lakers essentially you guys are becoming the New York Yankees of the NBA as the team can get any player they wanted attempting to trade for point guard Chris Paul.  The Houston Rockets were also were involved in the deal that was nullified. 

In this case the Lakers needed a point guard like Chris Paul but the league said no to the trade for the former New Orleans point guard.  Lamar Odom who played PF off the bench was a piece in the proposed trade up to the league telling the Lakers “no.”  Odom was hurt enough to ask the Lakers to trade him to the Dallas Mavericks.  Odom played 7 years as a Laker before the trade. 

The players and fans around the league were shocked about the deal being nixed.  The NBA however said yes to the Los Angeles Clippers version of the trade for Paul who leads the Lakers having 2 old point guards Derek Fisher and Steve Blake and 2 young point guards Andrew Goudelock and Darius Morris playing with a tomato ripened Kobe Bryant.

The trades the Clippers made and the trade the Lakers couldn’t make made me wonder how good were the Clippers as a franchise before moving to Los Angeles, Clippers weren’t that good.  Clippers had a descent run as the Buffalo Braves.  The franchise was born in 1970 along with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Portland Trail Blazers.  Then the franchise would move on to San Diego after the 1978 season.  Right before I was being born in late summer of 1984 the Clippers moved to Downtown Los Angeles playing games at the Sports Complex.  Lakers were still in Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood playing at the Great Western forum at the time.  The Lakers and Clippers since the move were in a parallel universe until the L.A. Riots after the Rodney King trial verdict in 1992 angered so many people around the city; both franchises had to move playoff games to Anaheim, California and Las Vegas, Nevada respectfully.

Championships are a must for the Lakers.  The franchise has won 16 NBA titles including 8 since I was born in 1984 Lakers won championships in 1985, 1987-88, 2000-2002, and 2009-2010.  Clippers reached the playoffs only 4 times since then in 1992-93, 97 (with losing recorded 36-46) and 2006 seasons. Also the Clippers have finished ahead of the Lakers in the final standings only 3 times from 1992-93 and the season the team finish one game short of reaching the Western Conference finals in 2006 season.  Both franchises do have players in common, such as Lamar Odom, Ron Harper in the not-too-distant past and Bob McAdoo from a long time ago to name a few.  

Even though I can’t stand the Lakers, no matter how many games the Clippers win the main focus for every franchise is to win an NBA tile someday in time.   Lakers still have the key to Los Angeles riches and glamour, but the Clippers have finally entered the 21^st century with a team that can be good for a long while.  Who would have though the Clippers @ Lakers games would be filled with energy, passion and hostility?  Welcome to the new age of basketball in Hollywood.

Nadal and the Letter

As I watch Rafael Nadal hangs on the line in the Australian Open, the wounds of losing my footing on the line still remains today, but I’m healing also.

In the summer of 2011 a month before the Western & Southern Open Tennis championships were held in Mason, Oh not that far from King’s Island theme park I saw a Metro bus coach 2136 (image is below) that had semi wrap advertising with Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova.  Also I stumbled on another Metro bus coach 2131 (image is below 2136 photo) that had a semi wrap that showed the illusion of tennis balls smashing the windows which was kind of funny.

When I took those photos I was reminded that my ex girlfriend who broke up with me months earlier love tennis to the point she took photos of the Western & Southern Open Tennis championships in 2010 before her family moved on to the Louisville area in late August.

Love of tennis remains today even though she and I shared the same fanatic feelings for Rafael Nadal, she is long gone and never coming back to me like a back-handed serve.  The love I thought I had with her was the real thing, however it’s not the love of the person that was gone but getting love of tennis which means 0.  My heart was broken just over a year ago this month when the Australian Open was starting in 2011.  I tried to email her, called her and posted threads from Facebook for a while after the last time I saw in Louisville in October I received no answer until close to three months came and went like a John McEnroe tennis racquets being smashed 1000 times.

 I felt like 1000 tennis racquets being smashed when one sentence which was no more than 70 words a letter she send to me from email was the agony of defeat I was feeling for a while was confirmed…she broke up with me.  I was so confused, she told me she was going to be forth-coming about everything that was going on or what wasn’t going on say so.  I was expecting a phone call or a lengthy email within days of my last visit; instead I was feeling like a set-up pitcher waiting and holding for a save for Mariano Rivera that would never come for almost 3 months.

Would I leave a woman I wanted to date hanging…I did that once before as some of my readers know, and I wouldn’t want anyone wait 3 months to know a break-up was in motion as I did.  Smashing tennis rackets in sadness and anger metaphorically speaking isn’t the answer but living life in the moment is.  Regardless Nadal wins or loses Australian Open; the tennis season has just begun in 2012. 

Semi wrap featuring Rafael Nadal and Maris Sharapova on Sorta coach 2136 in Summer 2011.

Sorta coach 2136 earlier this year in the cold.

Sorta coach 2131 looks to being smashed by tennis balls at Fairview Loop in late Spring 2011.  The weather was extremely hot that day.

Sorta coach 2131 drenched in the rain 2 weeks ago.  Coach was involved in tragic accident in Carthage neighborhood in Cincinnati on Christmas Day in 2010.  The link of tragic accident is below.

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