I love fall baseball… the way the run to the playoffs heats up and the play intensifies, even though a season of wear and tear have worn down most players. In the build up to the post-season in the past 5 years, there hasn’t been a lot to hope for. And even this year, I didn’t believe the Indians were going to hold it together until they went on a tear in the month of August, shutting down pretty much everyone (except the MFY, of course). I kept watching that games ahead column go up and down and up and down and up… and up… and up…

And then today… on Fan Appreciation Day at Jacob’s Field… they did it. Westbrook showed the best stuff from the mound he’s thrown since 2005, Sizemore had a great day at the plate, and men exchanged celebratory greetings in the form of leaping hugs.

If they keep playing like this and somehow figure out how to hit against the MFY, this could be it. The front office who kept saying, “wait until 2004 2005 2006 2007!” will finally be right and the dark clouds over Cleveland will allow a little sunshine to break through.

I don’t know why I’m getting my hopes up… I know that Cleveland is officially the most tortured sports city in America (if ESPN says it, it must be true, right? and relevant?) … but dang it, I get to watch post season Indians baseball, and that’s enough to make my day.

… that, and the fresh load of Bell’s I picked up while in that waste of space up north this weekend (in which, I had of course had a great time with Sarah and her family…).

I’m thinking I should do some sort of deep, introspective blog soon… we’ll see what happens.

Who knew being a rec league softball team captain would be so stressful? I didn’t. That’s why I agreed to be a rec league kickball team captain as well. Dumb move. I think once both teams are up and running, it will be a lot easier. Getting everything off the ground and figuring out money and sponsorship though? Not fun. Why the heck don’t people respond to e-mails? Is it really that hard? Are you so important that taking literally 15 seconds to reply to an e-mail will cause the time-space continuum to slow to a halt?

GAH!

I’m working from home today, which is turning into nothing more than handling freaking kickball stuff. Thanks for e-mailing me our schedule this morning, kickball league! Why couldn’t more teams sign up for Monday nights? It was all set and everything was good to go… I just keep telling myself to find a happy place… the Bell’s 8000 batch in my fridge is helping a lot.

So yeah, I’m working from home today. I end up doing that about once or twice a week. It’s nice because I get to relax, but definitely not productive enough to do every day. Plus, I don’t think I could stand daytime TV every day.

Have you tried watching the morning shows on the main networks? The Today Show is nothing more than crap, crap, and more crap. I can just see the production meeting before the show… Producer: “Ok folks, so we’re going to start off this morning with a 10 minute story about amazing new lipsticks that contain sunscreen, bug repellent, AND are environmentally friendly, then we’re going to transfer to a pan shot of crazy people from Idaho dressed up as potatoes in the crowd. Then a commercial break where, interestingly enough, we have commercials for the lipstick and Idaho potatoes. After the commercial break, we’ll spend 30 seconds breaking down the top 15 news stories of the day, followed by a cooking segment with the cast of A High School Musical 17. We’ll wrap it up with a model show of this season’s hottest jeans designed just for moms and Al Roker pretending to talk about the weather.”

Awesome.

Wow.  I sound bitter and angry.  Kanye’s new album is making my day better though.