Random Thoughts, Sights, Sounds - A Potpourri of Knowledge

Today's post will truly be random, as we'll be all over the place talking about events that have occurred over the past several days.

First off, with today being Labor Day, which traditionally marks the end of summer, happy end of summer everyone. Thank God it's over, because I hate the summer. The only good thing about the summer is the lower volume of traffic going to and from work.

Now that we are in baseball's final month of the regular season and the Red Sox trailing Tampa Bay by 6 in the loss column, you can kiss the AL East title goodbye. The Red Sox had a good month of August, but Tampa was better, as they continue to show that they are the better team (with the best winning percentage in baseball after five months).

I went to the final Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees game at Yankee Stadium last Thursday, and it ended as my other two trips to the House That Ruth Built ended with - a loss. I finish my Yankee Stadium career at 0-3, watching the Sox blow late leads in two of the games (which always makes for a more arrogant, cockier Yankees fan). Pair that up with the 8-hour trek home and it was a win-win day :p. I do have to say, as far up as I've sat in the upper tiers of the ballpark, there's not a bad seat in the stadium. The site lines are outstanding. But it's a good thing they're building a new stadium, because the amenities and the room in the concession concourses suck.

So, as my intake of games at the original Yankee Stadium ends, a new level of baseball fandom begins, with my son going to his first Red Sox game at Fenway Park last Friday (along with experiencing riding on the Subway system for the first time). He enjoyed watching Wally the Green Monster and having a Fenway Frank and ice cream in a helmet.

Saturday proved that you can take seven years off between rounds and still play Golf, but you will really, really suck at it. I sucked when I played seven years ago, I really sucked on Saturday and quickly remembered why I haven't played since July, 2001.

I've saved the best item (and my personal favorite) from the past couple of days for last. On Friday, with the announcement of Sarah Palin as his choice for Vice President, John McCain has secured my vote in November (though, he had it all along) and has won the race for the White House.

Any Presidential nominee who can introduce the word 'MILF' into the vocabulary of discussing the election with Obama is okay by me. WOW, the guy can sure pick himself an attractive woman. The guy has such good taste, how can you not vote for him. In past presidential elections the candidates have tried to secure the "soccer mom" vote as a way of winning the election, not McCain, he's going after the MILF-lovers vote, and now he'll get it with his wife, Cindy.

And he'll get it based on his choice of Palin, who is a former runner-up for Miss Alaska. Palin's got a little Julia-Louie Dreyfuss-Tina Fey to her.