It's over....until February 2006

Well, the Red Sox are out of the playoffs, losing today 5-3 to the White Sox at Fenway and 3-0 in the series. There will be no miracle come backs this year. Very disappointing but not unexpected. The Red Sox pitching wasn't the same this year. Manny hit two homers and Big Papi hit one also, but you're not going to win many games with solo home runs. Now I'll only pay peripheral attention to the rest of the playoffs, and will root for the White Sox to win it all. They haven't been in a World Series since 1959 and haven't won it since 1917, a streak of futility worse than that of the Red Sox before last year.

Oh well. Now lets see if the other Champs can get it going - that is the New England Patriots, of course.

Yay for football...


Even though he won't ever read this - Happy 34th Birthday to my little brother A.

This day in history:

Notable Birthdays: Retired South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, 74. Singer John Mellencamp, 54.

In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40.
In 2003, California voters ousted Democratic governor Gray Davis and elected Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger to take his place.