TigerBlog started watching "Zero Day" and had just gotten to the part where the cyber-attack began when his Netflix froze.
He took it as a sign and immediately tried switching to Bugs Bunny and Wile Coyote. And that didn't work either. What could be causing this?
Ah, TB's internet was down.
Now that's freaky. Is everyone still out there? Everything okay?
That was quite a coincidence, no? It would be like watching "Rocky" and then having someone walk into your house and punch you in the face.
Well, now that TB has calmed down a bit, he can get on with things.
First of all, there was this graphic from earlier this week on the Princeton Athletics social media feeds:
That's fairly impressive stuff. TigerBlog covered the men's lacrosse sweep of Duke and North Carolina earlier this week.
The men's hockey win over Clarkson came on the final weekend of the regular season. Up next for Princeton is a game tomorrow at Brown in the opening round of the ECAC tournament. Remember, Round 1 is a single game.
Princeton and Brown played two OT games during the season, the first a tie in Providence and then a 3-2 Brown win at Baker. This suggests a pretty even matchup.
The baseball win over 12th-ranked Wake Forest deserves special notice. Princeton was in Winston-Salem to play the Deamon Deacons and Maryland last weekend, and the Tigers lost the first three.
Heading into the game, Princeton as 0-7 on the year, while Wake was 9-2. The Deamon Deacons also scored first, leading 1-0 after three innings.
Instead of adopting a "here we go against" attitude, Princeton instead put up seven runs in the fourth — all of which came with two outs. It was done with a fly out to start the inning, a walk to Nick Shenefelt, a single from Dylan Zdunek and then a strikeout, which left the Tigers with two outs and runner on first and second.
From there, it went like this: RBI single from Grant Werdesheim, a hit by pitch to Joseph Zorc, a two-RBI single from Tommy Googins, a walk to Jake Koonin, a two-RBI single from Caden Shapiro and then a two-RBI double from Jake Bold before the inning ended on a fly ball.
That's a lot of clutch hitting.
Eventually, it was turned over to Jacob Faulkner, the Tigers' do-it-all pitcher, who closed it out over 3.1 innings. Really good pitchers can be unhittable at times.
Great pitchers can win even when they're not unhittable, and that's what happened with Faulkner, who gave up three runs and five hits but ended the game with a strikeout with the tying run on third and winning run on first.
Impressive.
The Princeton men's volleyball team's Top 20 win over NJIT dropped the Highlanders out of the rankings and vaulted the Tigers in at No. 20.
This week has been midterm week at Princeton. Spring Break starts after exams end tomorrow, and the baseball team will once against be on the road, in Virginia this time, with three against VCU, two against William & Mary and three against Liberty.
There will be at least four teams in action every day during the week of Spring Break, which is a rarity to say the least. California will be a very popular destination, with the softball, women's water polo, men's volleyball and men's tennis and teams all heading West.
The softball team will stop in Missouri on the way back. The women's tennis team will be in Texas and Louisiana.
There will be more chances to get after nationally ranked teams. And of course some of Princeton's are already ranked.
The men's volleyball team, for instance, will play three games on its California trip — all three against ranked opponents, including the No. 1 team in the country. It starts with No. 13 UC-San Diego and is followed by No. 7 Cal State-Northridge before finishing against unbeaten, top-ranked Long Beach State.
It's a challenge to be sure. It's also a good way to end a week of exams.
Oh, and when TB called, he found out that there was a network outage all in his area that would be resolved in a few hours.
Phew. Crisis averted.
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