Baseball ranting/rambling

Well, the Angels beat the crap out of the Twins and clinched the American League championship. (No offense to laurel or any real Twins fans, but that's just calling it as I see it.) I mean, dang, 10 runs in one inning - that's insane. I don't think I've ever, in the hundreds of baseball games I've been to or otherwise watched in my life, seen anything like that, especially not in post-season play. Wow.

Anyway, so regardless of who wins the NLCS... I guess now I kinda hope the Angels go through with it and win the World Series. It's looking like they'll be playing the Giants (unless the Cards come back from 3-1...), which'll make it exciting for all the California people, I guess. Still. The Angels have never won a World Series before, so I'm sort of excited for the idea that they would. Especially since they were the wild card and all. AND they beat out the Yankees, which moves them up several notches in my book. :) The Mariners haven't won a World Series yet either... sigh, maybe next year. Damn the AL West.

Speaking of the Mariners, it sounds like they're going through a lot of staff rotations for next year that could really suck. The manager wants to move to Florida, and the team still hasn't gone through with contracts for Olerud, Moyer, Wilson, and Edgar Martinez. Ideally, they'd pick up all of them, but it sounds like there are money issues involved. It'd suck to lose any of those players, of course. I mean, Olerud is just a consistently good ballplayer, and Moyer's a great pitcher. Martinez is getting old, and didn't have such a good season this year, so it's unclear what they'll do with him, I guess. I dunno.

It's just, I'm finally in a city with a good baseball team, which hasn't been the case for about ten years (since the Phillies were in the World Series in 1993, and I spent that summer in Pittsburgh anyway, so it's really more like twenty years. The Pirates never had a winning season during my 8 years in Pittsburgh). So I'm psyched to care about baseball again, and looking forward for next year; I should start looking into getting tickets to some evening games at some point.

DDR Cryptics

I posted this to the DDR BBS. Thought there might be a few people reading my journal but not the BBS that might like to take a stab at them.

If you haven't done cryptics before, type "Cryptic Crosswords" into Google and you'll get something helpful.

An example might be:

0) Bird's arm inside a seated position

in which case, a bird's arm is a "wing", and a seated position is to "sit", and if you put wing inside sit, you get "Swing It". If these are too hard (or if I've screwed up), I can put clues like how many words they are and what mix they're from, or something. :)
( Solve my puzzles! )

Just another Maniac Monday

Eli and I spent the evening in an unpacking frenzy, to decide whether we can have our Housewarming party this Sunday, October 20th. I'm hoping we can. I wonder if I should just send out email tonight and invite people and worry about whether we can actually pull it off later. The problem is if we don't do it this weekend I think we can't do it for like 3-4 more weeks because of Halloween and DDR tournaments and crap. So I hope all of you in Seattle can make it to a party. That means YOU, even if you think I don't mean you. Yeah, you, the ones I haven't really met yet. :P

We had tuna tataki for dinner again. Whee!

Work was okay. Fun meetings and stuff. I almost raised my hand during one to say that I know something about XSLT, but then I realized they might actually want me to do stuff, so I didn't raise my hand. I'm lame. Actually, I'm probably pretty behind on stuff anyway... I admitted later to one of the developers that I used to do quite a bit of XML/XSLT stuff. Hopefully, he won't tell anyone. :)

I got to see what a football day in Seattle is like. It gets really crowded down by the stadium and there's a lot of noise, and the buses can't pull up to the sidewalks because everyone parks all over the streets. Whee.