Baseball

Sometimes it takes forever to come up with an idea and sometimes these things write themselves.

I won’t tell you I like baseball - that would be a lie. I do love sports though and baseball isn’t my least favorite (Hey hockey how’s it going? Wow, you’re back?!? Good on you!). Therefore the baseball playoffs and storylines do give me some moments that I enjoy. Here are the highlights (and lowlights):

Yankees Losing

Take this as a high or a low however you want it. It can be a high because a team beat a bunch of individuals. It can be a low if you are a Yankee fan, but it could even be a high for you too. Something was horribly wrong here and it needs to be fixed.

Sell off some players. You have 2 DHs playing first base, about 30 all-star outfielders fighting for 3 positions, one of the best players of all time (yes, still) playing out of position. It’s time to make a change, sell of some of the fine glassware that’s worth a bunch of money and concentrate on the foundation.

End of the Season

Think of the season like college semesters, if you start off great you can coast towards the end. Get drunk, go to some parties, have sex with girls you will never admit to your friends. The point is, you worked hard in the beginning now you can coast, just get your ass in gear for finals.

Everyone thinks that rushing towards the playoffs is good, and having every game since July mean something important. It doesn’t……IT MAKES THEM TIRED!

Imagine if you had to take every quiz, final, assignment like it was college final and meant life or death. By the time the actual final rolled around you would be dead tired and having nothing “extra” to give it.

Look at who is still around: Detroit, Mets, Cardinals, As. Only one of the teams left was really trying for a spot the hole last half of the season, the rest backed in and were able to turn it up in the first round of the playoffs.

Can we put the “better to have games mean something” theory to bed now? Great, thanks.

Cory Lidle

If you are looking for me to write up about how sad it is or why God does things like this…keep looking, you won’t find it.

I won’t feel bad for anyone in those small planes. I’m sorry, to me it’s like sky diving only a little less safe. So while I feel bad for the family of him and John Denver and JFK Jr. – I don’t feel bad for the people who passed away.

That being said, let me paraphrase Barry Zito’s comments on this:

"he talked about getting his license a lot, I'm sure he had a lot of fun flying and he ahh.. probably went down a way he'd want"

WHAT?!?!

If anyone, ever, in the history of the world thought that joy riding a plane into a building was a good way to die (and no, for a jihad does not count) please tell me?

What is this guy, a Klingon? “Perhaps today is a good day to die”

I think I have seen more Zito than Lidle today…I’m sick of him

Prediction

I said at the beginning of the season (to my friends, just believe it) that the World Series would be As v Mets and I am sticking to it.

World Series: Mets