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Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day weekend bums me out. Don’t get me wrong, I love love love me some three day weekend, but as three day weekends go, this one is the pits. It is the symbolic end of summer. How could it not be a major downer.

Spring in New England is great. Fall in New England is great. Winter in New England is six shades of suck. Summer in New England? Summer in New England is to humans as a belly rub from an Angel is to a kitty. Pretty much the best thing ever.

This week marks the end of the belly rub. Crap.

Two Bad Things

Two bad things worth noting happened yesterday.

First, immediately after praising the Red Sox and fully placing myself upon the bandwagon, the Sox failed to mount another late inning come back and lost to Baltimore. Fortunately the Rays lost too so the lead in the division is still 2.5 games.

Second, I got a letter announcing that I have Jury Duty in November. Mother puss bucket!

Setting Myself Up for Misery

Well kids, September starts this weekend. You know what that means, right?

It means it’s time to start having my heart broken by the Red Sox.

They are 2.5 games up on Tampa Bay, in first place in the American League East. If it ended today, the Sox would be in the playoffs!

They keep coming back and winning games. Last night was another example. They were down 3-1 to the Orioles in the seventh inning. Two runs in the bottom of the seventh, one more in the bottom of the eighth, and chalk up yet another come back win for the Red Sox.

I can’t believe I am about to say this publicly, but John Lackey has been great. They don’t score any runs for him (is it personal?) but his pitching has been excellent. Lester seems like he might be back to his old (meaning not 2012, and not mid season 2013) form. He’s been dominant in his last few starts. Peavy has been all we hoped for and more. Good ol’ disabled-list-after-holding-his-child Clay? Well who the hell knows, but he is pitching a rehab start this week. If he comes back, and is close to the guy he was early in the season… well… that would be a pretty formidable starting rotation, would it not?

The offense is clicking. Napoli no longer strikes out every at bat, just most of them. Ortiz seems to be cooling off a bit. Everyone else looks ready to make a post season run. Things look really good here in Boston.

Of course… September starts this weekend.

September. The bane of the Red Sox fan’s existence.

Not all of us remember the 1978 collapse, but pretty much all of us remember the 2011 collapse. Those who don’t remember are either two years old, or boozed it clear out of their brain.

Just in time for the heart break… I have started to believe. They are going to screw me again, aren’t they.

Go Red Sox!!!

Another New WordPress.com Function

To go along with the built in youtube search, wordpress.com now also has a twitter search. Shall we test it?

Did it work?

Apple TV Update, but Will We Take It?

I saw an article this morning about Apple TV being updated to include a few new apps, including Disney Channel. If we could get Disney on our 2nd television, without buying a second box, that would be awesome sauce.

Unfortunately, the last time they rolled out an update it fried our box. We were unable to do anything on Apple TV after taking the update. We got a second box (in the hopes of fixing the first and moving it to the 2nd TV) and have yet to take that first update. I don’t want to get burned a second time.

Should we try updating again? What do you think?