Can It Get Any Worse?

As a Yankee fan this is about as bad as it gets. Over a two day span, the Red Sox won the World Series, Alex Rodriguez opted out of his contract, and the Yankees basically ran my all time favorite player, Don Mattingly, right out of the organization. Over the last year they have lost Bernie Williams, Joe Torre, Ron Guidry, and now Don Mattingly. Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada are free agents and there is no guarantee that they are going to come back.

Alex Rodriguez is a phony, self absorbed piece of crap who couldn't care less about winning and only cares about the money. Anybody who blames Scott Boras for Rodriguez's choices are wrong. Boras is only doing his job. A-Rod should be able to make his own decisions. The Yankees have said numerous times that they will not re-sign A-Rod if he opts out of his contract. I will be totally disgusted if the Yankees go against what they said and make A-Rod an offer even though he opted out.

Halloween

I think I might go visit my friends in Albany this weekend. There are a lot of Halloween parties and when I went last year I had a lot of fun. My problem is that I have no idea what kind of costume I should get. I always hate going through this every year because I can never make up my mind. Every time I get a good idea it turns out to be impossible to pull off. I went as Hugh Hefner a couple of years ago and that worked out real good but I don't even remember what I went as last year. Ive only got a couple of days left so I'm gonna have to think of something quick.

Back

I just got back from home today. I planned to go home last Thursday but then on Tuesday I got a call from my dad saying that my grandmother was sick and she was in the hospital. I wasn't that surprised because she has been sick but then I found out that it wasn't the grandmother that I thought it was. My dad's mother was the one who was sick. This really surprised me because she had never been really sick before. My dad told me that she couldn't get out of bed and then she refused to try because she hates hospitals and she really didn't want to go to one. She actually said that she would rather die in her own bed than go to the hospital but finally when the ambulance got there my cousin and grandfather convinced her to let them take her to the hospital. If my cousin wasn't there I don't know what would have happened because I don't know if my grandfather would have ever called the ambulance. She is doing better now though and she should be alright.

It's Over

The Yankees just got knocked out of the playoffs and I am completely miserable. There are going to be a lot of repercussions from this. This could be A-Rod, Mariano Rivera, and Jorge Posada's last game with the Yankees. It was almost definitely Joe Torre's last game. It shouldn't be though. Its not Joe Torre's fault Chien Min Wang got rocked twice. It's also not his fault that the best lineup in baseball barely hit the entire series. This time made a great comeback just to make the playoffs and overall Torre has done a great job since 1996. He shouldn't be fired based on his team playing a few bad days, but he probably will be.

playoff stress

Watching the Yankees in the playoffs is probably the most stressed out I ever get. This team drives me crazy. Going into the series I was confident we would win. After we lost game 1 I still thought the Yanks would win but things got crazy in game 2. The Yankees were winning until millions of insects swarmed the field and distracted the pitcher, Joba Chamberlain. They looked like they were in really bad shape after being down 3 runs early in game 3 but eventually the bats woke up and they pulled the game out. I am probably going to have a stroke before this is over.

Weekend

This was a pretty boring weekend. I didn't go out or do anything because i felt like crap. I basically just laid around watching tv and caught up on a bunch of work. I had a great time watching the Mets complete the biggest collapse in baseball history. Normally I don't care about the Mets. I focus my hatred on Boston. This year is different though just because of how much all the Met fans I know enjoyed how bad the Yankees played at the beginning of the year. They also had a great time telling me about it. I noticed a bunch of new Mets hats and jerseys on people that I had never seen in Met gear before but had suddenly become big Met fans over the last few months. I just wonder how many Met hats I'm going to see in the next few days.