Twins Baseball
My sleeping patterns get all twisted around when the baseball season starts. Already, the first two Twins games have spilled over into extra innings. Thankfully both have ended with victories for the home team but I’m not sure how long I can keep up this pace. Twenty-six innings of baseball in as many hours starts to wreak havoc with your ability to speak cogently with the general population. It’s especially bad when you’ve listened intently to John Gordon’s play-by-play on ‘CCO. It’s really addictive. I wonder if he talks like that at home or out in public. WCCO should shoot television advertisements with John Gordon engaged in mundane human interaction speaking as he does when Shannon Stewart hits one out of the park in the bottom of the 11th.

The weather in the Twin Cities has been warming up considerably. This weekend I moved the 150 pound tube technology Solid State stereo onto the screened-in porch. It’s heaven. Last night I was out on the porch listening to the game stretched out on the couch. I had a freshly poured Sidecar in my hand and a bag of carmel corn from Candyland at arms reach. The cats were lazily bathing themselves in the pale orange glow of the setting sun. All was good. All was as it should be – peaceful.