Five in a row

The Red Sox have won 5 games in a row! According to Fangraphs, there is now a 20.6% chance the Red Sox will make the playoffs!

My concern is that I find this all quite fantastic and I feel like I am being led along the yellow brick road.

But then again, I'm trying hard to be Mr. Optimistic so I'll go along with Fangraphs.

Tonight's game against the Nationals starts at 7:10 and Early has the start. I'm hoping for a 6^th win.

I am well above the middle on the hope-o-meter and in all honesty, it's creeping a little higher every day.

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It was hot today but not all that humid. That means no air conditioning for us. We spent the majority of the day under the ceiling fan on the porch. It was very comfortable.

Tomorrow will be a different story and you better believe there will be air conditioning. Once the humidity rears its ugly head, ceiling fans don't cut it.

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Several years ago I was heading out to Boston to pick my eldest up from college. When I went there, I always took the exit formerly known as "18" off the pike and drove down Storrow Drive.

On one particular trip, I got off of the mass pike at the Allston-Brighton exit (18) to find myself in a parking lot. Not the normal, "Boy, there is a lot of traffic but it's moving" parking lot. No sir, this was a full-on parking lot. No one was moving. And since the highway exit is a bit elevated, I could see that no one was moving further down the road.

Turns out some guy in a 11' 6" tall camper bus tried to drive down Storrow Drive.

He drove under this sign:

Which I bet a dollar made a racket when he hit it.

Did that stop him? No, it did not. He continued down Storrow until he hit this bridge:

Where his giant air conditioning unit got ripped off the top of his camper and shattered on the road, effectively closing the road.

When the state police showed up and cleared the road, they had to keep it clear so the camper could reverse all the way back to exit 18, Once there he could pull into a parking lot for a DoubleTree Hotel.

This is an event that occurs often enough that it has its own name. It's called "Storrowing" and it pisses everyone off.

I spent 2 hours in that traffic jam. Thanks to our modern cellular communication devices, I was able to call my son and tell him I would be late picking him up at school.

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Here are some links:

• I don't think I've ever heard it referred to as a "jail purse" before.



• Our society has gone to shit.



• Key line in this story: "But what’s the good in being a semi-professional time-traveller if you haven’t got a time machine?"



• I gotta be honest with you, it always bothered me that if you come here from Venezuela, you got free tuition but if you come here from Rhode Island, you get shit.



• Dementia Donny has sent all his minions out to lie about his fair.

A sweep!

Sometime around 8:15 or so, NBC finally switched over from golf to the Yankees/Red Sox game and I finally got to watch the game.

And a hell of a game it was.

The Red Sox took a 2-0 lead into the 9^th inning but Chapman couldn't hold it and the Yankees tied it 2-2. The Red Sox failed to score in the bottom of the 9^th so extra innings it was.

In the top of the 10^th, the Yankees scored 2 runs, making the score 4-2 which meant the Red Sox needed to score at least 2 runs to keep the game alive.

Well, they scored 3 runs, won the game and swept the Yankees in their 4-game series.

This evening, the Red Sox will start a 3-game series against the Nationals. Suarez has the start and first pitch is at 7:10

My hope level is slowly creeping up into the upper-middle of the hope-o-meter scale.

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Here are some links:

• On the Fourth of July, I will fly my flag as I always do. I do not feel the need to explain why I fly it nor will I use it as a means to communicate anything other than the fact I am a citizen in the United States of America.



• It is possible that Psycho Vlad may have taken on more than he can handle.



• It should be perfectly legal to shoot these assholes before they cause a plane filled with 200+ people to crash.



• I hope they don't send Tolle, Early or Bennett down to Worcester.

I'm kinda pissed

It was my intention to watch the Yankees @ Red Sox game tonight. NBC was supposed to carry the game.

Guess what? They decided to carry the Travelers Championship instead.

This is why I hate MLB for selling games to national networks. The national networks don't always do what they say they are going to do and as a result, it is the fans that get screwed.

So I'm listening to the game on the radio and staring at MLB GameDay.

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Here are some links:

• The nutcases in Iran are crazier than Dementia Donny.



• Goofy Joe thinks Dementia Donny is a loser.

Yea, I know...

Yesterday was a another busy day and I never got around to posting anything.

I had things to do and this wasn't one of them. This is not a "job" and writing it is something that I do when I'm bored and I have a few spare minutes.

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One of the things I had to do yesterday was go to a wake for my friend Paul's father.

Normally when it comes to wakes, I'm a "zip-in, offer my condolences and zip-out" kind of guy but Paul's wife, Diane, cornered me and decided I needed to tell their children about all the things Paul and I did in our misguided youth.

It was fun, which is not a word one usually uses to describe a wake...

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The Red Sox, fresh off their series loss to the Rockies, aka "The Worst Team In MLB", decided to play real baseball and they beat the Yankees on both Thursday night & Friday night. They played again this afternoon at 1:00 and the Red Sox managed to beat the Yankees for a third time.

I have no idea how they can lose to the Rockies and then beat the Yankees. The Yankees are the best team in the American League and have a formidable line up. They are are a flat-out good team who are currently at .585 but for some reason, the Red Sox come to life when they play them.

This is a 4-game series and the Red Sox are up 3-0 in the series. That means they have won the series which, as I always say, is the important thing. Winning series always moves a team up in the standings.

My hope level that they will sweep the series tomorrow is above "middle". Not high but nowhere near low...

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Anybody been to the Great State Fair that Trump is holding in Washington DC?

Anybody?

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I found this and it made me smile.

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Here are some links:

• Key line in this story: "...because they constantly get wet from showers."
  I'm betting it's not the "spray of water out of a plumbing system" kind of shower...



• Seems like the "president of peace" is having some issues.



• It's gonna get toasty around here next week.

Busy busy day

As a matter of fact, I was too busy to go golfing with Pat and Willie today.

I hope they didn't lose too many balls...

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Here are a couple of links:

• I don't know much about the middle east but I do know that if there is a problem between a man and a woman, the woman is always wrong.



• This whole "peace deal" is nothing more than a joke.