First of all, the Random Thoughts would like to congratulate the Bearister family on the arrival of Benjamin Newman Simon! With the arrival of Ben, Team Voldemort gains one additional fan, the Random Thoughts gains one additional reader (why wouldn't the Random Thoughts become nightly bedtime fare?) and big sister Emily finally gets someone to do her bidding. Congratulations Adam and Julie!!!
Ben has entered this world more than 4 1/2 weeks before his due date, just in time for the start of the 2006 baseball season. Poor, poor Ben. After all, it took precisely 73 minutes of baseball fun for me to remember why April through September can be the most frustrating months of the year. They've got this really cool rule in baseball, Carlos. If you throw the ball over the plate, it is called a strike. Pretty neat, huh? Why not try it sometime.
On the other side of town, the 2005 World Series Champion White Sox opened defense of their title last night versus the Tribe. For those of you too busy watching Bree go on a bender, the Sox grabbed a 3-0 lead by playing opportunistic baseball, watched Cleveland come back to tie the game at 3, and
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once the rains stopped, went on to a 10-4 victory. Reportedly, after the rains, a crowd of 40,000+ thinned out to less than 5,000 forcing Tail-chaser Brian Anderson to remark how strange it was to come out of the clubhouse and play in front of only 5,000 fans. I'll tell you what, Brian, you'd better hope that the starting pitching holds up. Otherwise, check with Konerko and Buehrle. They've been around long enough to prepare you for a September of begging even the Ligge's to show up at the Cell. Stylish yellow jerseys optional.
Hey, someone told me they played some college basketball games this weekend. Talk about a let down. After such a wonderful tournament, thus far, the national Semi-Finals were less than thrilling. Not really much else I can say. Not even an Erin Andrews sighting to divert our attention.
Sorry to jump back to the Chicago National League Ballclub, but they currently have the bases loaded with zero outs in a tie game and rookie Angel Pagan at the plate. This ought to be interesting. Maybe we can get lucky and get a catcher's interference call or something.
I expect a decent game tonight as the Madness officially ends for 2006. I doubt that there will be very much offense, but it should be competitive. It's really a crapshoot. Let's go with UCLA 65, Florida 62.
Pagan gets a hit!!! Pagan gets a hit!!! The Cubs lead!!! Start printing the World Series tickets now!!!
And its only game one.
Sigh.
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I too want to wish congrats to the Bearister family. Hey, at least he waited until AFTER the Cubs game to break Julie's water. How stressful was that flight home from Vegas??
The Cubbies are in the process of having another fantastic inning -- 6 runs are in, bases are loaded, no one out and the 10th batter of the inning is at the plate. BTW, if Carlos is our current ace, we're screwed.
Speaking of the Tourney, I heard the scalpers in Indy are selling tickets for LESS than face value just to get rid of the damn things.
Hey Dan, no trivia question today?
Congrats to the Bearister family. The Chicago Bear's fan base just went up 20%!
CUBS WIN! CUBS WIN!
Magic number:161
Go UCLA!
Thank you to everyone for your best wishes. Everyone is home and healthy - and if I was only 4 hours late he won't remember anyway, right?
As for the Cubs, Ben is a fan and is most optimistic. Lifetime record - 1-0! No heartbreak yet.
I am working on having the kids do a chorus of Bear Down.
Is it possible that the Tourney Gods place a cap on how much excitement can fit into one tournament - we just get to figure out if it comes early, middle or late. Looks like we filled our quota early. At least the first 2 weekends were a lot of fun.
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