Bring out the imp
Mike:
So now that the Division seems* locked up, I'm a little embarrassed about my own doom and gloom pronouncements last week.
*[said with fingers-crossed while knocking on wood]
Bill:
Yeah, and aftah reading Verducci's debunking of the biggest myths of MLB's wild-cahd era, our recent histrionics seem even more laughable.
Mike:
Well, I guess that's why they call us "fans" short for "fanatics" and not "imps" short for imperturbable.
Bill:
Seriously, I wish I could say otherwise, but the fact is, 100 times, no, make that 101 times out of 100 if the Sox have a 14.5 game lead that dwindles to a 1 game lead, I'm going to bust a nut.
Mike:
But no point in dwelling on our weaker moments.
Bill:
Of course not, especially during Christmas.
Mike:
On the first day of Christmas my Manny gave to me, 5 RBI.
Ok, h.b. I will give you that.
Yours in hypocrisy,
B.M.
Posted by: Billy Mahty | 2007.09.27 at 05:33 PM
Nat - probably a bit late on this today (west coast/work thing) but cautiously excited about Heroes. Kinda like my entire Sox outlook. I don't want to get bogged down w/ another dozen new characters.
Go Kazmir!
Go Beckett!
Posted by: Sonoma Sox | 2007.09.27 at 05:38 PM
Ron F, in case of a tie, it goes to head to head record. If the division title was truly such a big deal they'd make 'em play a 163rd game.
Posted by: chucks | 2007.09.27 at 06:04 PM
Natalie - everyone keeps trying to get me into FNL, but I still haven't seen an episode. Eventually I will be convinced, get the DVDs from Netflix, and then yell at everyone I know for not getting me into it sooner. (In the last two years, this exact scenario has happened with: Arrested Development, The Office (US), and Veronica Mars)
Posted by: Jackie | 2007.09.27 at 06:31 PM
Jackie - I'm the same way. I just got into Freaks & Geeks and Arrested Development. Coming up: 24, Six Feet Under, Firefly, the new Battlestar Galactica.
Posted by: Billy Mahty | 2007.09.27 at 07:14 PM
Judging from the way Manny just motored around the bases I'd say the Oblique's healed.
Posted by: Harwich Rich | 2007.09.27 at 07:27 PM
Jason O,
Pardon me if I borrow the words of Doc addressing Johnny Ringo:
"I'm sure of it, I hate him."
Said in jest, of course . . . As a Bamer and a Yankee fan over the past few years, you can relate . . .
Watching the Tiger and the Sox try their hardest to flush the season down the toilet was carving years off my life. At least the Sox have made a turnaround.
Auburn, on the other hand, is headed to the Swamp this weekend . . .
[Apologies, friends and hb for bogarting the thread.]
Posted by: BamaSoxFan | 2007.09.27 at 10:13 PM
the imp's asleep ...
Posted by: soxdownunder | 2007.09.28 at 04:12 AM
You gonna be "Down Under" at Copperfield's Sunday, SDU?
Come on, how much can it cost you, a few grand?
Posted by: Bob | 2007.09.28 at 08:59 AM