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This was brutal from the beginning.

95-67 ain’t too shabby a record. Three teams finished with this record today: LA Angles, NY Yankees, and my BoSox. Only two teams had better records: ChiSox (99-63) and St. Louis Cardinals (100-62). Since the Yankees and Red Sox are tied with the regular season record, the tie-breaker goes to the team that won the season series between these teams, and I hate to say it but the Yankees won 10 games to the Sox 9 games.

The ALDS shapes up this way: LAA has the home field advantage over the NYY, ChiSox have the home field advantage over the BoSox. Unfortunately Chicago has handled Boston this year. But the California…no…Anaheim…no…Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim have handled the Yankees this year. Unless the Boston starting pitchers step up I see Chicago winning in 5. I’ll also predict the Crenshaw Angles of The OC in 5 over the media favorite Yankees.

Most Valuable Papi!!!! How many times can this guy hit a game winner? Amazing! Talk about keeping us in the hunt for another series. But considering how poorly the starting pitchers are doing, it’s looking rather iffy at best.

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted, so I’ll try and sum it up for everyone.

1. We bought a house, as I mentioned here. With home ownership comes the responsibilities of a home owner…like managing a lawn, cleaning windows, and having a pet We got us a kitty, which you can see here. His name is Orley, named in memory of New Orleans. He was born on June 15.
2. As of today the Red Sox lead the AL East by 1.5 games. It is definitely going to be another intense September.
3. Microsoft has decided to release seven — yes seven — versions of it’s next operating system named Vista. Talk about mass consumer confusion just waiting to happen. Seriously, release three version at most: Basic, Intermediate, and Professional. The MS-hater in me believes this is their way to appease anti-trust people. “See, we offer a stripped down version, but no one wants to buy it.”
4. Judah turned one. Check out the photos here.
5. I’m playing my first season of Fantasy Football. It’s kinda fun. I think I’ve got a pretty good team. My #1 QB is Carson Palmer, and he is having a monster year so far.
6. A co-worker and I are starting to develop a professional website for Christian admissions professionals. We are trying to nail down the intent and scope of the site, as well as finding a software package that will meet the intent and scope that we decide upon Right now I’m toying around with tikiwiki. I just need to find a way to make it look less “geeky”.
7. Work is keeping me ever busy. I was commenting to Aj that I don’t remember feeling this busy last year. She pointed out that last year I was still learning my job, and this year I’m doing my job. Plus I think I have more responsibility this year, including having more people to supervise, which takes up more of my time.

Ok, I think that does a fairly decent job of letting you know where I’m at. Let the next week begin.

Today, over at Surviving Grady, he posted a transcript of what R. Lee Ermey would say to the Red Sox concerning their current play. Good times, indeed.

Red Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo release his first album this week. Good times.

Keith Foulke is up to it again. Tonight, he gave up the game against the Rangers. He gave up the game tying run on a double with one out, and a bases-loaded single to hand the win to Texas. Tito, catch a clue…in the late innings Foulke is not your guy.

He just gave up a grand slam. I have no confidence in Keith Foulke anymore.

I’m too cheap to purchase the MLB.tv package to watch my Sox, and we have the cheap cable, so I’m left with watching the games on MLB.com’s Gameday feature. Gameday is actually a really slick, for what it is. I can check in on the live action of any game going on.

I’m sitting here watching Keith Foulke try to give up another game. He just gave up the tying run as I was typing this out. I know he was brought in and dominated most of last year, but I started having suspicions about him during the playoffs last year when he was making “things interesting”. He has been anything but consistently good this year. If anything he has been consistently average. Some games good, some games bad. Today is of the bad variety. I know that Tito is sticking with him because he has proven himself in the past, but his performance this year is downright scary. I’m pretty sure that Foulke’s contract is up after this season, and I really hope that Theo goes on the market for a new closer.

Well, this will hopefully catch you up on what’s been going on in my world over the last week-and-a-half.

As mentioned here, I was recently in Michigan for a conference. There are portions of the conference that were geared towards me, more of the technical/operations side of things. It was good to hear from the presenters, and to recognize that while we are doing things well there are definitely things that we can improve upon. I’d like to see us take some of our print marketing we do and turn it into some electronic format. That process has already started in a very minor way, but we are a long way off (both in the office and in society) from moving totally away from paper.

For the trip we flew into Chicago, then rented some vans for the drive to western Michigan. When the conference finished on Saturday we drove back to Chicago and saw the sights. We took a ride on the Chicago River (which was very relaxing), strolled along Navy Pier, ate at Giordano’s, and saw the Navy Pier’s fireworks show from the top of the Hancock Tower. While waiting to get into Giordano’s we saw Tim Wakefield and Doug Collins (separately) walking down the street. On Sunday we went to Willow Creek for church. Boy howdy that place is huge, but they have a very effective ministry going on.

Work last week was mostly me trying to get back into the rhythm of being in the office. Lots of stuff going on, so there was no real time to relax.