Damn it to hell

The Red Sox are on vacation.

The only wildcard series left is the Phillies/Braves and that will be decided tonight at 8:00.

As for me, I'm guessing I'll be rooting for the White Sox in the AL and the Padres in the NL.

Thank goodness it's both hockey and football season...

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Here are some links:

• He's not wrong.



• It's very possible that Dementia Donny has gone deeper into his parnoia.



• Key humorous but sick line in this story: "...turning him into a human short-circuit."



• I rarely use self-checkout simply because the store doesn't pay me enough to run a register.

Darn it to heck

The Red Sox got their ass kicked 9-0 last night. They were not hitting well at all and the three hits they did manage to get were lucky. In my opinion, they couldn't score a run if the Yankees left the field.

Hopefully tonight goes a lot better for them. I know my youngest and his daughter are both wearing their lucky Red Sox shirts.

As for the rest of last nights games, here are the results:

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Unlike the Red Sox, the Bruins did great last night, beating the Rangers 3-0.

They named Pastrnak as their captain last Sunday and this was their first game with him on the ice as their official leader. Last season they had two assistant captains, Pastrnak and McAvoy and apparently this year they decided they needed a captain. McAvoy is still assistant captain and joining him as the other assistant is Hampus Lindolm.

Swayman had a great game, saving 100% of the 24 shots the Rangers took on his goal.

They are back at it on Friday when they go to Winnipeg to take on the Jets.

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The old lawn tractor has a new home.

The guy who picked it up drove it for a bit and said he knows exactly what is wrong. He seemed confident he could fix it.

I hope he gets a good many years out of it. It's a good machine that didn't let me down for 13 years (yes, I found the date of manufacture and it was made in 2013) so I'm glad someone got it who can keep it running.

I'm too old to mess with a v-twin small engine. Too many moving parts and way too many seals/gaskets that I can screw up.

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Here are some links:

• If you have anything to do in downtown Springfield, you should wait a day or two.



• I give it a couple of years and it'll be a shithole just like Iran.



• Another reason to avoid all those streaming services.

So it begins

The MLB playoffs started today at 2:00pm when the Braves beat the Phillies 5-3.

The 2^nd game started at 5:00pm when the White Sox took on the Astros. As of right now, the score is 1-0 in favor of the White Sox.

The 3^rd game is scheduled for 8:00pm between the Red Sox and the Yankees.

Finaly, the 4^th game is scheduled for 10:00pm when the Cubs take on the Padres.

Here is my complaint: Why didn't they schedule the White Sox / Astros game, which will be played in the central time zone, for 8:00pm (7:00pm their time) and schedule the Red Sox / Yankees game, in the eastern time zone, for 5:00pm?

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In hockey news, the Bruins take on the Rangers this evening. Puck drops at 8:00pm.

Scheduling hockey opening night at the same time as the start of the baseball playoffs is just plain stupid.

I blame Trump...

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Here are some links:

• Dementia Donny just keeps on making friends with everyone.



• Go goose someone.



• Just another case of toddler violence.

The new lawn tractor has arrived

I have built and installed the bagging system, installed the front bumper, dropped the mowing deck and lubricated every spindle. It came with an appropriate amount of oil but tomorrow I will run it for about 10 minutes just to heat everything up and then I'll change the oil.

In all honesty, I don't trust the guys who put these things together so I replace whatever oil is in them, I check the tightness of every bolt I can see and I make sure the filters are all installed.

Now all I need to do is figure out what to do about the old lawn tractor.

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Tonight is one of those evenings with no sporting events for me to watch.

The Red Sox are off until tomorrow. The Bruins start their season tomorrow. The Patriots are still trying to figure out why they shit all over the field last Sunday and don't play again until next Sunday.

Guess I'll see what entertainment has been saved onto the DVR.

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According to Fangraphs, the Red Sox have a 5.4% chance of winning the World Series:

I have a feeling that prediction table is going to age poorly. I will not be surprised if the Dodgers do not make it past the divisional series.

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Here are some links:

• Apparently bicyclists not only think they own the road, they also think they own the sidewalk.



• Despite what your seventh grade teacher told you, there are such things as stupid questions.



• I don't rely on my spam filters to move these things to the spam box. Whenever I get one, I log onto my email provider's server and write a rule to block any incoming email from that address, I don't even want to see them in my spam box.



• The last time women wore their hair like this, we ended up with a hole in the ozone layer.

So much for the big storm

At one point yesterday, one of the newscasters on our local station said, "Boy, we are really getting whalloped out there!"

I turned my head to look out the window and I say a leaf blow by.

No huge wind gusts, no branches down in the yard, no torrential rain, just a leaf floating across my front yard.

It's another clear-cut case of the media trying to induce panic in their viewing audience.

It's like whenever it snows, the national news guy says, "Millions in the path of a dangerous storm!" and I yell at him, "It's snowing for christ sake! It's not the end of the world. And yes, there are millions of people living in New York City, never mind the rest of us in New England, you moron."

I will admit to moving my generator to the front of my garage so if things do suddenly go to shit, I don't have to move cars to get it out but I seriously doubt anything is going to happen.

So anyways, that is the excitement around here - there are leaves blowing around.

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The MLB playoff brackets are not quite set yet but I'm willing to bet the Astros will be the ALWest winners and the Rangers will be on vacation.

No matter because I will be watching the Red Sox / Yankees games. Well, I'll be watching as much of them as I can. They start at 8:00 which means they probably won't end until 11:00.

As for today's final game of the regular season, the Red Sox lost to the Cubs this afternoon. Not the best way to end the regular season but they have until Tuesday to recoup and figure out how to beat the Judges.

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The Patriots got beaten up pretty well by the Jaguars, losing 35-6 this afternoon..

Not a great day for my sports teams...

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Here are some links:

• I feel bad for the kids with morons for parents who decided to not vaccinate their children against a childhood disease.



• Australia: They love their beer.



• Someone lost a SR-71 spy plane.