DANG...LOST AGAIN

I just saw that People magazine named someone else "sexiest man alive"....and once more, they pass me by....oh well, as the Cubs and the Blues (and the Democrats) say....there's always next year.

HERE COME THE HOLIDAYS

Looks like we are having Thanksgiving for my wifes family...it will be joyful mayhem...lots of unbelievable food and much wine and Anheuser-Busch products will be consumed...the turkey is almost an afterthought....enough little ones running and screaming to make it wild....although more and more, teens and young adults are our children now...still, Jack Daniels and I will get reacquainted, much like Clark Griswolds dad did...hope yours is as nutty-fun as ours will be.

CRUEL SOCCER CONTINUED...

Trinity Catholic High School lost 1-0 on a weak first half goal yesterday. But if you don't score, you can't win....and with a healthy wind the first half, I thought the kids should have shot more.....seems todays boys want to walk it into the net...oh well, takes a lot to get to the state finals, and congrats to them for that.
Sunday it is....a time for Mass and family...except some bozo plunked my mailbox last night and I have to get it straightend out. Remember the TV show MacGiver? .........the one where he used miscellaneous stuff to fashion ways out of trouble? Time for me to jump into "Mac mode"....
Have a great week....someone once said that if we could all make Monday our favorite day of the week instead of Friday, that life would take on a much more positive tone....as for me, I'm still working on it............

SOCCER IS A CRUEL GAME

We saw our wonderful nephew lose his game in the Atlantic 10 soccer conference on penalty kicks. PENALTY KICKS....................AN AWFUL WAY TO END A SOCCER GAME!!!!!
Both teams played well, but SLU got a lucky goal, while Dayton hit the cross bar once and had a goal in the second half called back due to offsides. Oh well, sometimes I hate that game as much as I love it................The game was marred by some hoolligan-like tactics by SLU... somehow I expected better from a team ranked nationally, but Dayton's kids really took it to them.............One more game today, as daughters high school team plays for the championship at what I still call Soccer Park in Fenton....

BACK IN THE HUNT

Last visit I was hoping for the Cardinals to go on....alas, they did not, but I did. It's been busy, with grandkids in the house and school and daughter in cheerleading. In St. Louis, we are now in the finals of soccer competition, always a big deal in this town. Our daughters high school is in their final four, our nephew is in Division 1 college soccer tournament at St. Louis U. Crisp air and the excitement of excellent soccer. If you don't like the game, I can't help you....If you do,this is as good as it gets...........

THE GREAT PUJOLS

God forgive me for being such a chicken....the Great Pujols blasted a bomb off the stupid wall of the idiotic Minute Maid Park, saving the skins of the Cards and bringing them back to Busch STadium....lets see what the Astros can do in a real ball park........I had to be brought back to baseball reality by my daughter from Chicago, who called me after the big bang....Then calls from both boys in California solidified the moment........my wife couldn't believe it when I told her as I crawled into bed....way past my bedtime...........
GO CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't really believe it............

Here I sit, broken hearted....nah really just disappointed again in the Cardinals lack of timely hitting in the NLCS against Houston....I really do hate that team, especially Biggio....I can't watch the rest of the game....win or lose, I'll find out sometime after its all over......maybe turn on the radio about midnight....just can't bear to see them lose....
And if they stage a miraculous comeback and win..........well, then just say I missed it. I already wasted a lot of time on the games this summer, when I could have read War and Peace or something. The big bummer is my son Tim got two tickets to the third game of the World Series.... that will not likely be played in St. Louis.