Friday... woo woo... Friday... woo woo...
So some of you may have heard about the 30-3 baseball score in Baltimore on Wednesday. Yep, that is a baseball score. The game broke all sorts of records, and the best recap is here (play video) by Tim Kurkjian of ESPN. Mr. Kurkjian is normally a pretty professional commentator but I guess because of his ties to Baltimore, he is a tad "over excited". It's hysterical.
It's Friday and all I can say is - the Yanks are still 2 games behind the Mariners in the wild card. I find this all very distressing, regardless if we get playoff tickets as Mariners regular ticket holders. The only thing I can hope for is that the Angels (who owned the Yanks this week) implode which would mean the M's take the AL West and the Yanks get the wildcard. Actually that would be the ideal scenario.
The thing that burns me about Seattle fans is that they epitomize the "fair-weather" in the term "fair-weather fans". And it has nothing to do with the supposed rain we get here [BTW, that's a myth to keep everyone else from moving here]. When the M's pretty much stunk, the stadium was half-full. No one went to games and it was a crowd dominated by Yankees and Red Sox fans. Now that the M's are competing, the stadium is filling up. It's not right.
This article about what not do at the ballpark cracked me up, particularly the 'Attire' section.
More action from the ballpark - this hurts. The person decides to pop the question to his girlfriend at the ballpark and let's just say that it didn't work out so well for him. Poor guy. I remember that one time my friend Michele and I were at an Islanders game, and we saw someone pop the question via the Jumbotron, and we were both thought that was not exactly the most romantic way to capture the moment. Anyway, tough break for the guy. Hope it works out for them.
My sister and her husband are excited about the return of this show. All I can say is that I am scared to what my nephew will now be exposed to. I will only watch if they return to the hairstyles of the late 80s/early 90s. Hehe.
Happy Birthday to Rebecca (a day late). Good luck on your knee surgery Maureen. And to Michele (same one mentioned above) - hope the A/C is helping in the final days of your pregnancy. Congrats to my cousin Bobby for getting "Rookie of the Year" at the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation golf tournament - we're proud of you (and shhh... I'm cheering for your A's to win every game in September).
Go Yanks! Don't let me down!