How 'bout them Sox!
The Boston Nine outpitched, out hit, and in general out classed the Rockies in a four game sweep in this year's World Series. As usual, great pitching overpowers good hitting.
The Sox great pitchers shut down the good hitting of the Rockies, and the great hitting power lineup of Boston clobbered the good pitching of Colorado.
Great beats good most days.
The first NFL regular season game on foreign soil was as boring as the London fall weather.
The N.Y. Giants beat my old town Miami Dolphins (no surprise, they stink this year!) but neither team could really move the ball on that mud bath of a field in a driving, miserable rain at Wembley Stadium.
English fans, along with a few Ex-Pat Americans paid 80 pounds per seat.
What is the NFL thinking? They actually intend to place a team in London, and perhaps Berlin in the near future. And we don't have one in Los Angeles! Or Birmingham Alabama.
One commentator on Fox Sports put it best.
"The average English Sports fan cares as much for American Football as the average American Fan cares about Manchester United" (English football, aka Soccer.)
Why not expand to L.A., Mexico City, and perhaps Toronto, where people acutually like Football?
The weather here has finally become fall-like. The leaves are coming down in great clumps, we totally missed the wonderful palette of color here in Eastern NC this year.
The mountains were glorious though.
4.5" of rain last week was a blessing, but we still need another 20" or so.
It will dip into the mid-thirties tonight. We will flip the switch on our fireplace for the first time this season, (Propane, Bobby, and propane accesories! as Hank Hill would say)
and I had to turn on the heat last night.
Just a week or so ago we were still wearing shorts and experiencing temps in the eighties.
If you don't like our weather, wait 30 minutes and it will change for you.
I can smell Thanksgiving in the air, and with Halloween just the day after tomorrow, I am looking forward to eating too much sugary candy, and to our annual ritual of watching
"Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein" and "Young Frankenstein"
"Where wolf, there wolf!" and "You take the Blonde, I'll take the one in the Turban!"
Yes, I can recite most of the dialog from that Mel Brooks classic from memory.
Can't remember my own zip code sometimes, but I know a lot of useless stuff.
So have fun, don't worry about your diet on Wednesday (unless you are diabetic), start stacking those hay bales and decorating for Thanksgiving.
Christmas is just around the corner!
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