How I Spent My Day

Baseball and Packing.

It was a very eventful baseball day: the Dodgers scored in the bottom of the eighth inning to take the lead 6-5 after giving up three runs in the seventh which allowed the Nationals to tie the game. Then yesterday’s goat redeemed himself by striking out two of the three guys he faced in the top of the ninth to force a Game Five of this best 3 of 5 series on Thursday.

I don’t actively hate the Giants except when they’re actually playing the Dodgers, but I admit I’m glad the Cubs came back with four runs in the top of the ninth to defeat the San Francisco team. I have this feeling of “if the Dodgers can’t advance to the World Series and win this year, then let the Cubs do it.” The fans in Los Angeles have been waiting since 1988 to get back to the Series, but that pales in comparison to the wait the fans in Chicago have had. The last time the Cubs were in a Series was in 1945 (they lost). The last time they won a World Series was in 1908. I’m a Dodgers fan first, but I’m also a baseball fan in general.

The rest of the day was taken up with packing for warmish weather (Los Angeles for a couple of days) and coolish weather (Washington DC and its suburbs).