oh well

Last night the Tigers beat themselves again with nervous young pitchers and errors, and lost the World Series. I am sad, since the Tigers make it to the Series so seldom, and might not make it there again in my lifetime. That was one of the things we were talking about at work Thursday night - how none of us might still be alive to see the Tigers in the series again. And if they had not made so many errors and poor plays they might have been in every one of the games they lost except for the one against Carpenter, as there is no way they could have won that game against such a good pitcher. Also, if Kenny Rogers had started games one and five they would have had a much better chance - or at least they would have had a good chance to have won at least two games - and that was a poor choice on the part of an other exemplary manager.

But if they had to lose, at least they lost to a team which has not won the World Series in a long time (though they seem to go there fairly regularly) and that does make it better. It is always good for a league to spread around the wealth, so to speak, and to give teams from smaller cities and smaller markets without as much money to also get a chance to win championships. So I am very happy for the team and fans in St. Louis today. I hope they party hard for those of us in Detroit! One of my best friends from college lives in St. Louis, and I'm sure that Dave is feeling both sad (as someone who grew up as a Tigers fan and Michigander) and very happy (as someone who has lived in St. Louis for some twenty years now) today.

They probably would not have been able to play a ball game here tonight anyway. It has been raining all day, and we seem to be having fairly strong winds this afternoon. Very bad weather for playing baseball!

The main thing is, though, that if anyone had told Tigers fans that the Tigers would have been in the World Series this year before the start of the season, that person would have been laughed out of the room! While the regular season and the Series could have both ended a bit more happily, this season was a miracle. Period! And if anyone says otherwise, they can bite me!

It is good to have Bill home. He is glad to be able to eat home made food, glad to be able to talk blue state politics with people who despise both major political parties, and glad to be able to have what he calls intellectual conversation (though what is college for if not to have intellectual conversations?).

Tonight Dan and Steven and I will go see Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra starring Patrick Stewart, with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I am pretty excited about it!