Talkin' Baseball

I'm not doing as well as I should be right now as the A's have lost 9 in a row and seem to be on their way to their first meaningless September since 1998. With the way things are going, August might be meaningless. So bring together your friends, light a candle and remember the good times and hope for the best next year.

Also, after 2 out of my 3 softball teams made playoffs last year, which ended up forcing me to pick between them when they played each other in the second round, none of my teams are going this year. I don't really understand why, as we're really the same teams without any major changes. One of the teams is even in a weaker division this year than we were last year. Of course all this means is that I'll get more golf weekdays in this year...I hope. So to cheer myself up and since T-Ball is over now, here's something fun:


Yup, that's my boy. Next year he's going to play in a league where they actually pitch to him instead of just putting the ball on a T and letting them whack at it. If you look at the picture you'll notice a bigger guy in the same red shirt of the Lansing Lugnuts. That's the coach, who didn't really do much. His wife made a snack schedule and at the top she put a picture of a football field, goalposts and a football. The first game out, the coach wore spikes. The last two games, they didn't even come. I don't know how they picked a coach, but it wasn't the best way to go.

Also something that I just noticed: There are two electrician/data cable guys here right now pulling and setting up the data lines in the building in which I work (not that I'm doing this at work) and they're looking for "black tape." I call the same thing "electrician's tape" but apparently when you actually are an electrican, you call it black tape. Why not just "job tape" or "my adhesive"?

And here's today's session of "What You Should Listen To"
It's a song that I'm sure most of you have heard, and if you haven't, you should be ashamed. Hang your head right now and feel pity for yourself that you haven't heard this tune that I'm about to mention. Go have a listen to a little tune called 'Helena' by Nickel Creek, it's on the album "Why Should the Fire Die?" and it's spectacular. There's such a painstaking plea and pure rage. I loves it myself. And yes, Nickel Creek is the greatest band ever.