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New Hat?

OK, I lied to you. I did not go to bed at 11:00PM, I stayed up until 12:15AM and watched multi-millionaire kids dance for joy on a field of green on a late October evening in Denver. I did not stay long enough to see if Syndrome would do another River Dance in his underwear again though.

Three years ago when the FRS won the Fall Classic for the first time in 86 years, I bought a hat to commemorate the event. This year I will probably do the same, but I’m not sure yet. One, I don’t really like the looks of the hats available and Two, they are kind of pricey at $29.99. The 2004 World Champions hat I bought was $19.99!

2007 Wild Card LoserTo rub it in I was going to buy my MFY fan manager a 2007 Wild Card Winner hat as a gag when I purchased my Red Sox World Series Champs hat, but even it at $24.99 is a little too much to spend on a quick gag.

Maybe I’ll just buy the Wild Card hat for myself and on the back where there is a ’07 Division Series patch I’ll have the word Loser embroidered there. 🙂

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Has Anyone Seen Them In The Same Room Together?

SyndromeIf you hunt around on the web you can find loads of pictures of the Red Sox closer, Jonathan Papelbon, in mid grimace after the final out and some others of him doing his little river dance after the FRS won the ALCS, but I can’t find any of him in the dugout between the eighth and ninth innings during one of his long, 4 out saves to show you what I mean. But a couple times during this World Series he has been in there sitting on the end of the bench with his wild-eyed look, running his fingers through his hair vertically to make it stick straight up. This gave him a very distinctively disturbing look. Unfortunately for him this may have given away his evil super hero alter-ego – Syndrome!

Last night, Donna and I watched the whole freaking game three and it didn’t get over until like 1:00AM. Tonight we are going to bed at 11:00PM, no matter what, the Red Sox will win or lose whether I’m watching the game or not, because tomorrow is a work day and we won’t be able to sleep in until 8:30AM like we did today.

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And If The Band You’re In Starts Playing Different Tunes

Dark Side of the MoonPlanetologists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory studying this photo from the dark side of the moon Bownce, believe that the red areas are large deposits of copper and the faint yellow indicates that there might be sulphur just below the surface.

May not be big news where you are, but they opened a new Wal-Mart Supercenter here today.

They may have opened a new Wal-Mart in Beantown today, but I wouldn’t know because I don’t subscribe to the company newsletter. I know they opened one here because it was front page news in the local paper. If they did open one in the Boston area I bet they did a box office business in Red Sox paraphernalia.

I got exactly what I didn’t want last night, the FRS scored a baker’s dozen worth of runs, so although I didn’t see it, I bet somewhere in America a sports page headline read, “Sox Rock Rox.” I’m afraid to mention that I don’t want to see the Rockies score a bunch of runs on the Red Sox, so that someone can get to write the opposite, for fear of it happening, so mums the word.

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Liquid Sunshine

May not be big news where you are, but it rained here today.

Its raining in Beantown too, making for a messy game one of the MLB Championship Series. Posting may be light for the next 5 to 9 days as my normal blogging time coincides with the TV broadcasting of the FRS and the Colorado Rockies. Plus I can barely concentrate long enough to post something without any distractions…

As much as I’d like to see the Red Sox score tons of runs and win a World Series game, I don’t really want that to happen so in the morning I’ll see a sports headline that reads, “Sox Rocks Rox.” Whatever the score of a Boston win, I can bet somewhere, that that will appear in print.

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Its Finished

Got done reading book #11, Valediction, this evening, thereby completing my quest to read every one of Robert Parker’s Spenser novels. I’ve got all 34 books on a shelf and maybe in a couple years I’ll read them through in order, instead of randomly like this time. It was never required, but it might make some of the references fit together better.

This book didn’t have any crime buster secrets, but it did have one of Spenser’s Laws of Dining:

In high restaurants the food never lives up to the view.

The second to last book I read, A Savage Place, did have a Dick Tracy Crime-Stopper reference:

I had a full file of Dick Tracy crime-stoppers at home, but none of them that I could remember covered this. What would Allan Pinkerton do? What would I tell the Bel-Air Patrol if they put the arm on me here in the bushes? My palms felt a little sweaty. I squinted a little to blur things and took a quick peek. They were still at it. Private eye was one thing, Peeping Tom was another. I headed for the car.

Seeing as no specific rule is mentioned it didn’t make the cut.

In case you missed it the FRS didn’t lose to the Indians in game seven of the ALCS, like I expected, so they are on to the World Series (or more appropriately the MLB Championship Series.) They now get the privilege of playing the Colorado Rockies of the National League who have won 20 of their last 21 games and swept through both of their playoffs series. I hope Mark is right in that if the Rockies ever lose one, they’ll collapse and not win another until next year some time and that the FRS can win the first game on Wednesday to start that slide.

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You’re Killing Me

Game 7. Ack.

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What?

I’m not blogging tonight. You can’t make me. So if you’ve come here to read about my ‘exciting’ day there will be nothing here for you.

I didn’t go out to eat with friends tonight. So there will be no stories of how my Fillet Gorgonzola was very tasty, but the pasta and veggies that served as side dishes were not palate pleasers. Or how Donna’s Veal Saltimbocca while not visually appealing was very good.

The FRS didn’t win their playoff game. So there will be no trumpeting about the 10 runs the Bosox scored nor Beckett’s 6 inning mastery of the Indians only allowing one run with the bullpen finishing the game allowing only two more.

I am definitely not going to tell you about our drive to work this morning with the top down, but the windows up because it was down right chilly, nor, how on the way home from the restaurant we didn’t eat at this evening we put the windows up again, but not the top.

Nope, not going to do it.

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