The White Sox are on vacation

Every year, if the Red Sox don't make the playoffs or they exit it early, I pick two teams to root for. I pick one AL team and one NL team. I usually pick teams that have several players or maybe a manager I know. Usually one, or both, of those teams washes out of the playoffs fairly early and this year was no different.

I picked the Padres and they lost to the Brewers in the NL divisionals.

I picked the White Sox and they lost to the Guardians in the AL divisionals

So now I'm rooting for the Guardians & the Brewers because I don't like the Rays and the Dodgers have won enough world series...

The NLCS starts tonight with the Dodgers @ the Brewers.

Go Brewers!

The ALCS starts tomorrow night with the Guardians @ the Rays.

Go Guardians!

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In football news, the Patriots beat up the Raiders 45-17 this afternoon and they are now .600 on the season.

That win puts them 1 game behind the Bills in the AFC East and gives them the #1 wildcard slot. Yes, I know it's early in the season but it's really not all that early. This is week 5 of a 18 week season so they are more than ¼ of the way through it.

Their next game is Sunday the 18^th against the Jets.

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Here are some links:

• Key line in this story: "...was news for me."



• Donny Boy's special little war sure is going well.



• Apparently the West Nile Virus has moved to the west.



• Rachel is going to Vegas.

And another win

The Bruins beat the Flyers 5-1 this afternoon.

The Bruins simply outplayed the Flyers, taking 32 shots on goal to the Flyers 15.

Now they head for the west coast which means I won't be watching any hockey for the next 3 or 4 games.

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Well, Dementia Donny is once again making stupid deals that do more to hurt the US than help it.

History tells me that Putin will take the money from Trump, use it to buy drones from Iran and never deliver the diesel simply because he has no diesel to deliver.

When all is said and done, the US will be out billions of dollars, Russia will have a shitload of new drones to attack Ukraine and we will still be paying $6.50 a gallon for diesel.

The man is an idiot.

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Here are some links:

• Wile E. Coyote - Super Genius.



• Back in June of 2025, Trump said, "Iran's nuclear facilities were obliterated". Now, maybe not so much.



• Didn't that Venezuelan chick give him a peace prize?

Nice win

The Bruins didn't just win last night, they beat the crap out of the Mammoth, winning 6-1.

And I'm pretty sure the Mammoth got that one goal in the 3^rd period because the Bruins had kinda slacked off.

They are off tonight and they take on the Flyers tomorrow afternoon. Puck drops at 1:00.

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The Guardians are not going away quietly. That series is now tied 2-2 with the final being played tonight at 8:00.

At this point, I don't really care which team wins but whoever it is, I really want them to beat the Rays in the ALCS.

I do not want to see a world series with the Rays as the AL team...

Update: I lied

There is no game tonight. It is tomorow night.

What can I say. I'm retired and days don't matter to me so I don't pay attention to them.

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I'm going to say out loud that to my knowledge, there are only two entities that use public executions: Iran and the taliban.

Am I the only one that thinks my country has gone to shit because we are about to join that club? We are about to become no better than the taliban.

Hegseth was a Major in the Army Reserve and then he became a FOX news opinionator. Dementia Donny appointing him as Secretary of Defense was almost as stupid as the appointment of BrainWorm Bobby to Secretary of Health and Human Services...

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Here are some links:

• And I thought our government was run by terrible people...



• You want to know the worst decision ever made regarding criminals? It is this sentence: "Due to his age, his name will not be released."



• Yet another reason to not fly commercial.

And the Yankees are on vacation

The Rays finished off the Yankees, the Brewers finished off the Padres and the Dodgers finished off the Braves. The final divisional series between the White Sox and the Guardians will be finished off either tonight or Saturday.

Go White Sox!

Go Brewers!

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The Bruins take on the Mammoth this evening. Puck drops at 7:00 and for some reason, I kind of expect DiPietro to be in the Bruins goal.

Then again, it might be Swayman because if there is one thing I know about Sturm is that I don't know what he's thinking.

Either way, I'll be watching the game and I'm hoping to make it through all 3 periods.

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Here are some links:

• Get ready for another increase in gas prices.



• The acronym "WTF" comes to mind when reading horseshit like this



• I'm sure he comes from a loving family with a mom and a dad...



• Only in Florida.

I guess it wasn't a fluke

The Senators beat up the Bruins last night, beating them 4-1 in regulation.

I made it through 2½ periods and from what I saw, the Senators simply played a better game, conrolling the puck and keeping it in the Bruins end. Swayman got worked pretty well, stopping 20 of the 24 shots the Senators took which sounds bad but really isn't.

The Bruins had 28 minutes of penalty time to the 18 minutes the Senators had which is a problem the Bruins have had for the last several seasons. They seem to spend a lot of time playing shorthanded.

Their next game will be on Thursday against the Mammoth.

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So Pat and I played "big boy golf" today. And by "big Boy", I mean instead of playing a par-3 "executive" golf course, we played a full sized golf course that required we use our driver, fairway woods, sand wedges, etc...

Now I don't want to say we did good or bad so I'll just say that between the two of us, we lost at least 10 golf balls.

And most of those golf balls were lost in the fairway rough under large piles of leaves.

All-in-all it was a good time but unless Willie steps up and suggests we go golfing one more time, we are probably done for the season.

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The MLB divisional playoffs look like they are going to go on for a bit more.

The Guardians are currently up 5-2 over the White Sox in the 5^th. I was hoping the White Sox would close it out tonight and there are still plenty of innings left for them to overcome.

The Padres / Brewers game kicks off at 10:00 tonight and I can guarantee you that I will not be watching any of that game.

Go White Sox!

Go Padres!

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The bumble bees that live in my yard are really enjoying my wife's plants:

And we have no idea why a plant that flowers in the spring has decided to flower in the fall:

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Here are some links:

• Another reason to not fly commercial.



• Imagine it's January 1942 and Franklin Roosevelt, talking about the Japanese, says, "Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego."



• This is a bad idea.