Baseball's Once a Year Treat

I always find with baseball the thought of watching a game isn't appealing and is mainly the image of being bored for the majority of the time and seeing someone make it to first base maybe twice in an hour.  Usually throughout the really long season (150 or so games per team) I watch the brief hit or catch highlights on the St Louis Cardinals' website, or more desperately a dramatic strike out.  It's basically something that could help me survive the NBA lockout (lots of opinions on twitter! none by me) and doesn't involve me having to do anything.

This though is wrong, the last time I watched a game I was in an airport and loads of sweet action was going on, hits runs and all and a few days earlier I'd forced my holidaying companion to watch about 30 minutes of exciting play - I couldn't watch enough, it was better than going outside and sweating and being tired.  The time before that was in my third year of university, after a swell Comeplay a friend with Sky Sports said I could come and watch the last game of the 2006 World Series with him as it featured St Louis battling for redemption after being swept the last time they were in it.  We got to his flat, he went straight to bed and I sat on my own and explaining myself to his flatmate who wandered in confused.  It was awesome and the Cardinals won it for me.  This was a team I became a fan of, bought a tshirt for and played as on Triple Play 2001 because of a large ginger goateed player whom Wikipedia claims confessed to using steroids throughout his career but not for performance, for health..

Well the obvious news is they're back in it and here is the crazy game they won to get there, Cardinals - Brewers Game 6, it's intense stuff.  The added emotional/poignant reality is also that the teams best player, Albert Pujols, is potentially off at the end of the season in spite of being offered $200 million to not abandon me.  The best hitter and defend all in one, it's like a combo of Steven Gerrard.  Anyway, the conclusion is I would watch some games if they weren't on late.  Sneak ad:

X Factor brief opinion, Sophie is good, Frankie gets worse each song, unusually the bottom 2 was correct and Rebecaa Ferguson's first song was played on the radio today, yay!

Lockout Shmockout?

Two posts within the same month means that I am tripping.  I think it's because a laptop I bought broke after 25 days of buying it (refurbished mind) and me thinking I had a year warranty suddenly realising it was actually 30 days and that I was in fact very lucky it broke so quickly.  I just had an email saying I was getting my refund so at least it isn't getting sent back to me telling me I'm wrong and suck.  I assume this is what you get for buying a well speced laptopfor £230 - saying that my living-on-the-edge-mind is to buy one of the same value again and hope it too breaks and then I will get another and so on for maybe a year or two until I've sample every laptop and have lost important files (I have no such files) and unbacked up photos continually for a year.

Moving on from that sorry tale, the current predicament is that my annual fear of the months between June and October, while the NBAseason isn't on, is in full swing with the Internet becoming a really dull place.  In fact the probable reason I got obsessed with buying a new computer was because finding deals and spending money was my replacement for basketball interneting.

This is all amplified due to the lockout, where no basketball is played, everyone wants more money and no one wants to compromise to benefit me, which means there's a good chance there will be no season for even longer or even at all.  I'd imagine this will make me go back to Baseball :( although that ends in September I think and St Louis' star player has a broken arm or some such misery, and I can't trust Liverpool to make me happy.  Any sport ideas would be well received, specifically if they have a lot of stats I can geek over.

On a side note, this book is awesome and doesn't require imagination like a story book

particularly if you love numbers and money, not at all if you don't :-|

 Speaking of economics, I made my too patient girlfriend go here with me when we had like 1 day in London: