While I hate to see the sunset of a baseball season, the one consolation is the arrival of a football season with which we baseball fans can lick our wounds. The fact that the Eagles won their season opener for the first time in years is enough to start me off excited about this year's team. Considering that their 0-2 start last season had everyone writing them off as worthless, only for them to come back and make it to the NFC championship game (at which time they promptly proved themselves for all practical purposes worthless for the fourth year in a row), this year's start, if enthusiasm is equaled in perfamance, should have the nay-sayers nay-saying themselves.
And so it is only fitting that I indeed skipped the Redhawks game today, as they lost their crucial playoff game, ending their excellent season for naught. If they win the PCL championship, I expect the Iowa Cubs to be sending us a great big thank you present for practically handing it to them these last couple games.
But the Phillies have surprised me of late with a now 6-game win streak (my fingers are crossed, I'm not jinxing it), though it is too little too late. If they're very very very lucky they might re-take second place in their division (along with their dignity for the season), but it's pretty much impossible (probably mathematically so) for them to re-take the division, and nearly as unlikely that they can overcome the Giants for the wild card (notwithstanding the fact that Houston, Chicago, San Diego, and Florida all have dibs on the wild card as well).
--
In kid news today, it was the first day of the new Sunday school year, and the girls seem to enjoy getting back to that.
UPDATE 13 SEP
Okay, so maybe I jinxed it. The Phillies lost today. Sorry guys.
No comments:
Post a Comment