Both Bay Area teams are in their respective Division playoffs this year. This is really exciting. I don't think it's happened since the year I got married (1989). I'm basically a dilettante when it comes to baseball even though I love it: every spring I watch the first couple of weeks of televised games and then I go back to following the scores in the Sports Section until the last couple of weeks of games which I then watch whenever possible. I rarely get to the ballpark because I rarely go to large public events. But I'm jazzed about the Giants clinching their division, and now that the A's have grabbed a place at the last possible moment I think the whole Bay Area is dreaming of a "bridge" World Series.
Secretly I'm hoping the Mariners scoop the A's. I'm from Seattle, the Mariners are my other home team. And man, what a season they've had. Everyone predicted gloom and doom when they traded Ken Griffey Jr., but the Reds aren't going to the playoffs, now are they?
Addendum to yesterday's plaintive entry: I know Columbine didn't put up her list to make anyone feel stupid. I can do that all by myself, thank you very much. Heck, just tell me some strange and interesting fact that I've never heard before, let me find out within the hour that someone else has heard of that strange and interesting fact, too, and I'll jump to the conclusion that I ought to have known it and my failure to do so means I'm not very smart. It's a wicked, pointless behavioral tic. I'm working on modifying it.
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