Take me out to the ball game

Nearly everyone who knows me knows I'm a Yankee fan. Ever since the Yankee's lost out on the chance to go to the WS again people have been offering my their condolences.

It's as if someone died.

I appreciate it. I'm always sad when the Yanks lose. The upside is that at least the devils lost too.

But I'm still following the post season. I've developed a love of the White Sox. It's temporary. It amounts to "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."

And don't think I can't hear the mutterings

slut

But it's not true. I'd be a slut if I stooped low enough to follow the Team That Shall Not Be Named in post season.

But if I did that I would hope my family would have me sedated and carted off to the nuthouse.

Then again, with my family, they'd probaby have contract taken out on my life.

In any event, I'm glad the White Sox have won and I'm hoping the Cardinals beat the Astros and go to the WS. What can I say? I'm a sucker for the under-dog. But who am I rooting for to win? I'm not sure yet. Most likely the White Sox.

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"This is all tied to Jack?" Sheldon said. "I'm shocked out of my socks."

Before you go out and buy some new socks for Mr. Sheldon, read one of the better summations of DeLay's problems, and the whole eLottery/Abramoff scandel, at TruthOut.org: How a Lobbyist Stacked the Deck, by Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi of the Washington Post, originally published on October 16, 2005.

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US caught re-gifting. Oh, the Horrors! Miss Manners will have the vapors when she reads this.