Sporting Ruminations

I don't know what it says about the state of my mind that I would follow up a post about my grandmother with a post about baseball. That it is scattered? Shattered? Smothered and covered? Probably all of those things. (That was a Waffle House joke, for my non-Southern readership.)

I have reread my last post several times, and while there are things that I would change, I am mostly pleased with it. I think that is what has kept me from posting another entry. I would reread it and get distracted by changes I would make, or thoughts of my grandmother. I am trying to avoid endlessly re-editing all of my stream of consciousness ramblings. I try to just set things down and walk away. I don't want to over-analyze my neuroses, or to make this too polished.

Rather than allowing the tone of this blog to become too high-minded, I have decided to post about what is consuming most of my thoughts this weekend: Padres playoff baseball, my college pick 'ems league, the Padres, the desire to snack, the Padres/Diamondbacks game that started 20 minutes ago, how much I dislike the Dodgers and would like to see them lose, LSU failing to cover the spread and Colorado actually covering the spread, which makes me think of dips and cheese spreads (see notes on snacking above), the odd response to an email reply that I sent to an old ex-boyfriend, and the Padres making the playoffs this year.

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I saved this and spent the day watching football and napping. Quelle suprise, mais non?

Turns out that my Padres won their game today, and so did the Dodgers, so it comes down to the last game of the season to determine who gets the division title, and who gets the wild card berth. Here are the various combinations for the game results tomorrow:

If we win (yay) and the Dodgers lose (yay), we get the division title.

If we lose (boo) and the Dodgers win (boo) we get the wild card berth.

If we both lose (boo/yay) we will win the division title, and the Dodgers would get the wild card because the Padres won 13 of the 18 games against the Dodgers this year. Hell yeah! That is an ass-whuppin', my friends! We OWN them...

Naturally, everyone on ESPN is talking about how the Dodgers "clinched" a spot in the playoffs. Oh, and yeah, I think the Padres played a game today too. The Dodgers spraying champagne on each other was the first story on Baseball Tonight. The Padres? "Well, yeah, these are big games". How annoying.

The Padres bullpen has been the best in the NL all year, and now it merits a "Well, they should be OK if they can get it to Hoffman." I need to just stop watching the editorials.

I think I am just grumpy because several teams failed to cover the spread today (I am looking at you Florida, Rutgers, USC and Nebraska!). Once again, I find myself in second place in the league. This is really starting to irritate me. I want my seben-fitty.