I'm Over It (Already)!

For me it’s kind of like someone is kicking me in the butt with tennis shoes instead of steel boots now.

But I’ve moved on and I’ve also already moved on from ‘08. I’m still not sure how the regular season will feel next year. I’m hoping I won’t have the attitude of “Oh, sure they are having a great season, but they will get swept in the playoffs again”

Already clinching the division was less exciting this year than in the past.

Next year I think it will seem more routine for lack of a better word.

as they are already halfway to the win total I pessimistically predicted for them when the season started.

I’ll pop in a few DVD’s from this season and it’ll be back….just not yet

with their pathetic performance. But I’m not over the fact that it ended so abruptly. I so wanted the baseball season to go on and on. I miss listening to a game every day. I feel like hibernating. Wake me when pitchers and catchers report.

Going to the theatre tonight and tomorrow and starting next Friday a retrospective of my favorite living director Andrzej Wajda. Sadly the Cubs loss means I can try to see all 35 plus of his films ( plus another dozen done for TV). Despite being one the world’s greatest directors , virtually none of his films are actually available for screening anymore. It is small consolation but am excited anyway.
I am also planning ahead as I switched my airline reservation to come to Chicago from tonight to next April for the first home weekend series Vs Cardinals.

I had a friend say Sunday “Gosh darn it now I have to actually pay attention to the election”

My comment was “Actually the only bright spot for me is being able to fully concentrate on the election!”

….that this team is, for lack of a better term, “locked” into the current roster composition for at least the next 2 seasons, and that the current roster composition is just not quite good enough.

I guess that we just have to hope that they keep on making the playoffs and that some streaky guys get hot at the right moments. Because I’m not sure how Hendry will free up the resources to make changes that will truly improve the team, rather than tinkering at the margins or reshuffling the deck.

this offseason will be hendry’s biggest. he has to be very active. were this close and our core isnt getting any younger.

Last week my wife and her mom went to visit some longtime family friends of theirs in Pismo Beach (about 175 mi north of LA). I opted not to go because I started a new job two months ago and I’ve got a massive project going on right now.

Les, the husband of the couple they visited, is over 80 years old and a lifelong Cub fan. He and his wife Dorothy have two grown daughters, no sons, and no grandkids. For some reason the daughters don’t share in his passion for the Cubs. What’s worse, Les is also slowly dying of emphysema.

Last Sunday, Les took my wife around their house and loaded her up with lots of his Cubs memorabilia – a logo beer glass, a hardcover book on the team’s history written by the Sporting News, a special Cubs edition Fannie May chocolate bar, and a few other goodies. As they went from room to room, he calmly and gently explained to my wife that “I realize I’m not going to see them win a World Series, so I’m passing my stuff along to your husband so he can carry the torch”. It was hard for me not to get a lump in my throat when my wife took everything out of her suitcase and shared what happened.

So, will I be back next year? You’re G.D. right I will be…and every year after.

that’s when the puck drops on the ’Hawks 2008-2009 season at MSG.