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In utter disregaurd to the danger of me losing at least half of you by venting about baseball right off the bat (sorry, lame joke), I am going to do exactly that. Was reading this weeks issue of SI tonight, it is Thursday after all, and there was a nice article in there about the St. Louis Cardinals winning the World Series. Yes, I know that the final game was almost a whole week ago now, and this is actually not news-worthy anymore. But bear with me for a second. I'll make it short. Basically, my problem with the article is that it wass trying to say that the Cards are truly a great team and were worthy of winning. Well, not from how I see things. True, they won. So they must have been a good team, right? Sort of. It is a sport, so really any team has a chance of winning, that's just one of the beautiful things about sports. And yes, they did make it to the post season, so they were not a horrible team. But in reality, they just happened to be a team with enough experienced guys on it to win in the end. They caught a VERY your Detroit team at perhaps the easiest time to beat them, and they took advantage. Detroit had almost a full week off before the Series started, the Cards had a day or two. This is huge is baseball. And most of Detroit's players are young and have little to absolutely no post season experience at all, let alone World Series experience. Also, Detroit had to beat the Yankees and Oakland to get to the Series. Two very tough teams that would wear most any other team out.

Anyway, I could go on, but I will spare all of you. In the end, the Cards won and that is all that ultimately matters. Errors, experience, time off, crowd noise, and what the players ate doesn't matter. It's the wins. And Detroit just happened to pick a bad time to have a couple of off games and St. Louis picked a great time to have some very good games. So, congrats to all of you Cardinals fans out there (Kathy). And here's hopin the Twins get there next year.

Also, I would like to take this chance to say that I don't think that I like Rick Reilly's "Life of Reilly" page that he has at the end of every issue. Initially, this page was one of the biggest selling points for me on SI. Loved it. Good, intelligent writing. Lately, seems like he is just writing trash. Granted, there are always going to be those nuggets of good, but do I really want to have to go dumpster diving every week to find them?

if you want a good page though, and almost a gaurantee of a good page, read Steve Rushin's page. Always the first by-line in SI and I never miss it. Granted, I am slightly biased to him, as he did grow up in Minnesota. But he is very intelligent, funny, and just writes good stuff. It is rare that I don't learn something from his page, or at least find myself touched by who he writes about. So, even if you aren't a sports fan, it would be worth reading him every week if you can get your hands on a copy of SI. And if you don't know anyone who has a subscription and you don't want to buy one yourself, and you don't want to stand in the magazine isle at Target reading it, I would imagine that pretty much any guy out there would jump at the chance to buy one for you. If you expressed your interest about it to him in just the right way. Guys are suckers for things like that. And well, you women know what you are doing and how to do it, so I don't need to say any more on that than I have.

Enough about SI. It is a great mag, but I really wasn't intending to go on that much about anything sports related.

So I tried to call the guy I ran into the other day about a job. Just got his voice mail but I at least left him a nice message so he knows I am for sure interested. And remember how I said I thought he was fairly high up in the company he works for. Yeah, was looking at his card while I was calling and pretty sure that it said "Vice President" under his name. That's pretty high up. Definitely going to try to call him again tomorrow.

I can't believe that I am already thinking about Christmas. And I am actually getting a little excited about it too. Usually I get in the mood to listen to some Christmas music for a day or two somewhere in the middle of the summer and then I am good until like December 20th or so. And I am usually dreading Christmas right at this time of year. And I have been from time to time already. But the last day or so it has actually crossed my mind a time or two, and there was no dread attached to those thoughts. Strange. Still not going to put more than my Kermit ornament on the tree any time soon though.

Think I might actually be able to stay at my new place tomorrow night. Finally. Still have a bunch of stuff to do there, but at least I would be there.

The Office. What a great, great show. Almost felt sorry for Michael tonight, almost. But really, I am having a really hard time remembering what actually happened on tonight's episode. I have been watching the dvd's from season two and those are all I can think of right now. D'oh!

mood: may as well watch some more of The Office
music: "Got You (Where I Want You)" - The Flys