Playoffs Outsider is written by a Mets fan with issues. Another October with no team to watch, I turn to the Yankees in despair despite teasing Mr. Sunshine (my Yankees friend) all day about Wild Cards and 4 seeds. At least the Yankees are from New York, and at least I am familiar with the players. Playoffs Outsider is financially motivated to root for the Phillies (Stubhub). All these things I do are wrong. Playoffs Outsider is also called by the ghosts of his ancestors to root for the Formerly New York Giants.
So there I am. Another day at the real job put to bed. A day where I had to do work-work and not feed my twitter heroin addiction. Good thing I had loaded up the blog with posts. I catch on that Halladay has a no-hitter and even on the radio I can tell he has great stuff.
I’m driving home and figure I’ll catch the last three innings.
Rrrrrrring.
Cell-phone. Mrs. Mets Police. Her car won’t start. I have to go meet her and jump the car. Awesome.
Nope, I had no interest in seeing the first playoff no-hitter in my lifetime. Why would I want to see that. At least I got to hear it.
Now I’m home and fried. I just want to watch some baseball and we have this dumb 8:37 start. When will the TV executives catch on that I’d rather see the end of a game than the beginning. 7pm starts all summer long, and I rarely see first pitch. I usually see the end. (Well except for all the games in August and September). If Monday Night Football started at 5:30 I’d love it. Maybe I should move to SF and rejoin the Formerly New Yorks. I could cut the middle and wear an old black NY Giants cap.
I haven’t watched a pitch yet and I’m already sick of Conan mentions. I don’t know if there have been any but I’m so sick of Frank Caliendo mentions from whenever that was that my brain is trained to hate. I actually like Conan.
Oh, and dinner. There was none. My old backup of Lucky Charms? None. (Anyone can blog, being a fat blogger takes effort like this). Double backup Frosted Flakes? Junior finished them. So Raisin Bran and a cranky blog post for dinner.
Playoffs Outsider is leaving now…off to blog about the Mets and use the picture in picture to watch Yankees and maybe Hawaii 5-0…fall asleep in the 4th inning and wake up tomorrow to see how C.C. did.
UPDATE 8:39pm: I know I just said I don’t care about first pitch but I just missed first pitch. Why? She’s lost. The directions I gave her are bad. By “me” I mean Google.
UPDATE 10:12. I made it until the bottom of the 5th. Sleepy. Not a Yankees fan. Don’t care. Mmmmm sleep. Good night Mets fans. I have a good rant loaded for the morning, see ya then!
Phillies no-hitter = twisting the knife