- Sunday, September 28th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
There was a brief outage (a few hours) for my site today, it was all my fault. I waited until the last second to renew my domain and Godaddy reverted it to their default parked page. Everything should be back to normal now though.
Not a whole lot of news to report today.. I had the whole weekend off, Saturday Mae and I went to the Como Zoo for a bit, it was surprisingly busy though, so we didn’t stay too long. Didn’t even get a chance to hit up the Conservatory due to a wedding. Lame. After the zoo we stopped home to grab some things, followed by a stop at Target for some garlic bread, and we headed to my dad’s house for dinner. Lasagna plus our garlic bread, and it was quite tasty. We watched some TV while the dinner was cooking, played some Wii after dinner and left there a little after midnight.
It was a pretty early night, followed by Mae leaving around 1pm for work and me sleeping for a while after that. I got up and got the domain issue sorted shortly before Robert got home and starting playing Resistance.
The Twins lost yesterday, as did the White Sox; and both clubs won today. Now as I mentioned previously, the White Sox play the Tigers tomorrow to make up a game that got rained out earlier in the season. If the White Sox win, we play them on Tuesday in a one game playoff to decide who gets first place for the American League Central. If they lose, we clinch the central and go to the playoffs. First pitch is tomorrow at 1:05 CDT, so be ready.
Time to go find some grub.
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- Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Today was a good day off. I got some more information regarding some possible changes at work, I sat on the couch ALL DAY, and the Twins SWEPT the White Sox.
I didn’t get to see the beginning of the game because Bill put in 10,000 BC, but as soon as that was over he went to bed and I turned the game on. I had been keeping tabs on the game on the ESPN GameCast, so I was well aware that we had gone from a 1-0 lead in the 3rd, to losing 1-6 in the top of the 4th. I turned the game on right when the comeback started. I watched through the middle innings as both teams were deadlocked, and on into the 10th inning when Gomez’s blooper to center field brought Punto home to win the game, sweep the series, and regain sole possession first place in the American League Central for the first time since August 23rd. Having been in the Metrodome for the final game of the regular season in 2006 against the White Sox, I know what the atmosphere is like inside The Dome in the final innings of a critical game that can make or break a hope for October.
Now it get’s real tricky. We have a three game series at home against Kansas City, and the White Sox host the Indians for three games to end the regular season. However, if the Twins and White Sox are still within 1/2 a game of each other on Sunday, the White Sox have to play a makeup game against the Tigers on Monday. If after that game the Twins and White Sox are tied for first place, they will have to play a one game playoff on Tuesday.
So basically we sweep the Royals and hope that the Indians can take at least one game from Chicago. Today’s win brings the Twins’ magic number down to four. Any combination of four Twins wins or Chicago losses secures the AL Central.
It’s going to be an interesting weekend.
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