Oh Deer

It's been eight days since TigerBlog shared with you the picture of the two wild turkeys who wandered up to his living room window the other day. 

Since then, they have come back and brought a lot of their friends, only TB couldn't get a picture in time before they all scurried away. Skittish little things, the wild turkeys, even with their propensity for aggressive gobbling.

Now the deer who come by are a much different story. They won't run away as quickly as the turkeys, not since they've started to recognize TB and especially not since TB started leaving them corn. 

TB took this picture the other day of those visitors: 

TB thinks this is a pretty good shot, largely because at first glance it looked to him as though it was one deer and its shadow, as opposed to two deer. Not bad, if he does say so himself. 

How in the world did people live without being able to take pictures on their phone, like back in the medieval days of the 1980s and 1990s. 

TigerBlog took the two-deer photo Sunday, while he was watching the Princeton-Brown baseball game on ESPN+. It was a long one, spanning over four hours before the Bears won in 10. 

TB stayed with it all the way from when he first turned it on in the fifth inning, largely because he was getting work done at the same time and because of the great job that Cody Chrusciel and Mike Warren were doing on the broadcast. 

If you watch Princeton sports on ESPN+, you've probably heard Cody at some point. He does Princeton football and men's lacrosse and then fills in wherever else he is needed, such as at baseball this weekend. This is in addition to his "day" job of being the Associate Director of Athletics/Multimedia & Broadcasting. 

Yeah, he stays busy. 

From the very first time TigerBlog ever spoke to him, it was clear that Cody certainly has an annoncer's voice, even in his day-to-today conversation. Hearing him do baseball is like going back a few decades to the way the game was presented then, which is something that TB can definitely appreciate.

The Brown loss Sunday left Princeton at 6-8 in the Ivy League baseball race. There's clear separation in the league standings, with three teams at the top and the remaining five in the hunt for the league tournament field. 

Penn and Columbia are tied at 11-4, with Yale a game back at 10-5. Princeton had eight losses, and the remaining four have either nine or 10.

Princeton and Harvard have played one fewer game than the other six, with the third game postponed by weather (several times). Princeton is at Yale this weekend for three and Cornell for three more the following weekend, which is supposed to be the last of the regular season. Presumably, Princeton and Harvard would have to make up that one game if it impacts the tournament field. 

The softball team also has two league weekends remaining, also both on the road, with three this weekend at Penn and three next weekend at Brown. 

The Tigers enter this weekend at 12-3 in the league, two games up on Dartmouth for first place. After that, you have Harvard, Brown and Columbia all at 9-6.

The regular season winner will host the Ivy tournament, which would fit very nicely into Princeton's new Cynthia Paul Field. Should it come to be a tie with Princeton and Dartmouth, the Tigers hold the tiebreaker after having taken two of three from the Big Green earlier this month in Hanover. 

Before the big league weekend, Princeton is at Monmouth today at 4. 

It'll be sunny and in the mid-60s for the game. There are very few places that have better lunch selections than Long Branch, N.J., which is, if you don't know, right on the beach.

It appears that spring is finally here for good, after a mostly brutal April. Take yourself out to the ballgame (either in person if you can or on ESPN+). 

There are some important ones coming up for Princeton softball and baseball.