Monday is my fun day?!

Have you ever been so tired you couldn't focus? I don't just mean you had a lack of focus, but you were so tired you kept losing all control of your head and it would free fall towards your desk or keyboard? That's where I'm at today. Fortunately, to this point, I don't have the imprint of a space bar on my forehead, and I haven't impaled myself with my staple remover or pen. It's odd too, since I went to bed a little before 11 last evening, after driving back from the Red Sox final game of the season. It's just one of those days I guess.

Speaking of the game in Boston yesterday, it was bittersweet, to say the least. It was the final game of the season for the Red Sox. They came up short of making the playoffs this year. It was a tough year, losing several key players for extended periods of time as well as getting lackluster performances out of Josh Beckett, John Lackey and Jonathan Papelbon. What was nice about it was that we beat our hated rival, the New York Yankees. Now, the Yankee fans we sat near were a pile of major jerkwads. I'm not saying all Yankee fans are this way, but so many of them have this swagger, one that makes you want to smack them. Now, I'm sure Yankee fans say the same thing about us members of Red Sox Nation, but I don't care about them, ha! It was nice to be able to keep the Yankees from winning the A.L. East Championship, but the "Yankees Suck" chants just aren't the same when they are going to the playoffs and we aren't. Now it's time for all the "experts" to predict what will happen this offseason. I guess I'm a Phillies fan for the rest of this season...

While on the subject of sports in New England, the Patriots play this evening down in Miami, a place they don't typically play well. I've heard a variety of predictions for this game, everything from a win by double digits to a loss by double digits. I'm sort of on the fence on this one. I'm trying not to project this one with my heart, because my heart says the Pats win big, by at least two touchdowns. They have a very dynamic offense with lots of weapons at Tom Brady's disposal. On the other side of the ball, however, they are less than stellar. In fact, the defensive unit scares me, and I don't mean a little. This team needs to outscore the opponent, because the defense isn't stopping even the bad teams (see last weekend against Buffalo as an example). I don't see Miami as a better team as a whole, but I don't see them as a bad team at all. I feel they have an average offense and a better than average defense. Question is, who will control their mistakes on offense better? This could be a shootout with both teams scoring in the 30's. I'm going to go with the Pats on this one, but in a close, barn burner, 37-36. I see Gostkowski making up for a few recent missed kicks by putting one between the uprights to win the game late.

While on the topic of sports, the Second Annual McCullough Polish Horseshoe Tournament was this past Saturday. If you all remember from a previous post, the organizers purposely planned the tourney for the past weekend because they knew Nichole and I couldn't make it. I'm not exactly sure how the first round or two went, but it sounds like Championship scores were 21-19 and 22-20, with both games being won by a 3 point bottle shot. Team Merlotte, comprised of the home team, the McCullough's, picked up their second consecutive championship. Does anyone else find it funny that they host the tourney each year and they have also been the only winners to date? Is it home field advantage or is some sort of cheating going on? We will find out next year when Team Marcole stroll in and take them down. I'm just saying...