World Series Post

I'm watching the Phillies and the Rays play game 5 of the World Series. We're a double play away from the end right now, the hopeless Cubs a distant memory. I thought I might be done watching on Monday night, but this goofy suspended game didn't get continued until tonight. I'm enjoying it, though, since the game is almost done and it's not even 10pm, rather than midnight or later like it's been some years. One out to go. Someday they have to schedule a World Series game for a Saturday afternoon, even if they have to compete with college football. I'd like to think that my kids would appreciate a Tigers World Series someday, but the games would be on way too late for them to stay up for it. Game over, the Phillies are champions, and guys get crushed at the bottom of a pile at the pitching mound. Overall, I'm happy with it, since I'm not a fan of upstart franchises like Tampa Bay winning the World Series in only their 10th season, which we've seen quite recently with the Florida Marlins (twice) and the Arizona Diamondbacks. In other random notes, the special "World Champion" hats the Phillies are now wearing are quite gaudy, and the regular hats look dumb with those hugs World Series patches on the sides. So, yay for the Phillies. Maybe the Tigers can live up to expectations next year.

By the way, Obama is going to win the election. That's not an endorsement or a condemnation, but I think it's pretty much done. It's not very bold to make a prediction like that when there are only two outcomes, but I think it's going to go that way.

The World Series trophy just made its appearance, which ranks somewhere in the middle of all the sports trophies in terms of coolness. At the top: the Stanley Cup and the green jackets of the Masters. Toward the bottom: the fragile, sissy glass football that the college football champions get.

It's over!