Well well, summer finally decided to rear it's ugly head around these parts. We went from 70s last week to mid-90s over the weekend. While I don't necessarily mind the hot weather, I'd appreciate it if it could be a slow build up next time. Jumping 10 degrees in a couple days just isn't cool. And it's supposed to go right back to 70s starting tomorrow.
Baseball
But at least it was sunny and clear for baseball yesterday. Hot, but no rain. And given the long lay-off, my body actually felt pretty good. My shoulder wasn't all pissed off, back didn't hurt, knee felt fine. It was like I wasn't all banged up! I proceeded to go out and pitch 6 strong innings, which is definately rare for me. But there was a down side. Here's me yesterday: "Man, I just pitched 6 innings and my arm doesn't even feel tired. Doesn't hurt or nothing!" Here's me this morning when I reached over to silence my alarm: "AHHHHHHH!!!! What have I done?!!"
Needless to say my right arm isn't moving so well today. I'm quite sore today, and quite surprised. I figured I'd be a little sore after not throwing for so long, but not like this. Hopefully it'll get better quickly and I'll feel even better this weekend. I'd hate to start the nagging injury series before hockey starts. Cause it's only getting worse once the hockey season starts up.
Cubs and CDs
I recently took a page out of my buddy Tom's book regarding my music collection. Seems Tom has the nice idea of playing every CD he has alphabetically once every few years. Takes him a few months to do it, but you occationally find something that you forgot you had. So I started this up at work the other week. I'd do it in the car as well, but I'd rather listen to XM on the drive to/from work to help me get through my day.
Anyways, right now I'm at the tail end of my Tori Amos section. Yes, one of my dirty little secrets is being a Tori fan. I'm not so big into her right now, as I'm not miserable. But when you're down, that's the way to go. But it is quite nice to be listening to Tori when you read the recap and box scores from the Cubs games. Cause you'll feel like total shit when that's going on and really need that help. I mean, could this season BE any more depressing for us?! We had 1 chance at temporary bliss over the weekend: Mark Prior's return. And then he goes out there and shits the bed. When you have more HRs allowed than innings pitched, that's a bad day (4 HRs in 3.2 innings). And Prior wasn't the only one that could make that claim. Novoa gave up 4 in only 3.1 innings of work. A terrible day that will likely kill the last of the hope for this season. I think at this point I have to be realistic about it. While still mathematically possible, the odds are pretty bad. We'd have to win over 2/3 of our remaining games just to get to 90 wins, the assumed mark for making the playoffs. We have a .382 winning % now, and would need to jump that by .300 to .680 to get to 90. With a team that is still without it's best hitter and 2 best pitchers. I'm not counting Prior as being back, as he still sucks and we're almost better off not having him right now. Maybe in a couple weeks I'll count him as being back. Needless to say, it's time to start working out some trades. Dump the veterans we no longer need to get some kids to restock the minors with.
Cereal
In a surprising move, I'd jumped to eating Kashi cereals. And I have to admit that it's not too bad. Right now I'm working the Go Lean Crunch. It's kinda like eating a cinnamon-spiced rice cake in a bowl with milk. But better than that sounds. I'm going to give it a couple more boxes before I finalize an opinion, but things are looking good so far. Plus, it would appear that it gives me alot of gas in the afternoon. I'm still not sure if it's something else doing that, but that's the only thing that's been common since last thursday. While not the best thing to have it work, as long as it's stink-free gas I can rip as many silent ones as I want. Which I do. Yes, I'm aware that I can be a rather discusting human at times. But at least I've tightened my criteria on eating food that I've dropped on the floor after the deodorant incident. Yikes!
Okay, times up kids. I'm outta' here.
PEACE!!!
Monday, June 19, 2006
Summer is here!
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