Random Thoughts
Sitting here in the dark with no cable, I was just thinking.
Living in Southie is great. When you leave stuff on the sidewalk as you move in people steal it. Your neighbor on the left is a nice working girl whose quiet and polite. Your neighbor on the right is waiting for Whitey to return to power and flicks cigarette butts at you as you walk past. No one on the street is particularly happy to see you move in as you basically represent the loss of two more parking spaces. They were even more pleased when my two motorcycles arrived today.
The Sox just went 2-4, with four bad losses against two playoff teams. You go 2-4 in October and your home in time to celebrate Columbus Day. The Sox have no number three starter, John "$14 million" Lackey's numbers are worse than most teams' number five starters. The bottom half of the order is as automatic as 1-2-3 against playoff caliber pitching. Yet everyone has them as the team to beat. The bid to get Wakefield win number 200 has turned into an automatic loss every five days. Wake is a good Red Sox, but this isn't Little League where everyone gets a chance. This is a pennant race.
It's a contract year for the boy wonder who became an average at best young man, Theo Epstein. In an effort to create a bidding war he's floating a story that the Cubs are interested. Hey Theo, how can we say good-bye if you never leave? Not sure what those Cub's fans did to that billy goat but Theo? God help you. Maybe you'll get real lucky and see free agents JD Drew and Julio Lugo in a Cub's uniform.
Texas Governor Rick Perry has Mitt Romney so scared Mitt's joining the Tea Party. Turns out the reason for Texas' low unemployment is that anyone who donated a gee whizz to Rick received a pretty good government job. The more you donated the better the job. The problem with guys like Mitt who have never done anything other than be born on third thinking they actually hit a triple is that by definition they can't stand for anything.
"The challenge is not simply to replace Obama in 2012. The real challenge is who and what we will replace him with. We know its not enough to simply change the uniform." Finally, a political candidate whose actually making sense. Who you ask? Sarah Palin.
Thank God I'm surfing tomorrow, thinking has never been my thing.
KOKO
