Mostly baseball notes

-You think you hate Freshy Freshington? You haven't been around Gwen when that commercial comes on.

-The baseball season is well over, but I did have a couple of final thoughts. I can only grouse in misery about the hated White Sox winning it all for so long, so here's something else that really bugs me. See, this is the first year in quite awhile that I had been able to watch all of the postseason and I realized....I hate watching postseason baseball on TV. Its like every single commentator just jacks up the banality about six notches. I mean God, Joe Morgan was already the worst announcer I've ever heard, but it seems like every one is trying to top him. And nothing, NOTHING is worse than the dreaded post-victory onfield celebration interview. Every damn one is the same, the EXACT same. Like this-

"We send it back down to the field now where Token Woman is with Winning Hero"

"Thanks Mustachioed Announcer. Winning Hero, this team was down in the series, you were down tonight, but you just kept fighting back. Talk about this teams gutty resolve."

"Wow, you know this team, we just always kept fighting. We never said die...give all the credit in the world to Grizzled Manager and Veteran Catcher...they just wouldn't let us blah blah blah..."

"How huge was that play by Joe Blow back in the fourth inning?"

"Wow, that play, it was just huge for us. Blowie always comes through in the clutch, he's a guy you love to have on your team!"

"What does it mean to win it all at home in front of so many friends and family?"

"Wow, it's just amazing! These fans, they're the best fans in the world, they always supported us...when we were down balh blah blah..."

"Ok, go celebrate!"

"Thanks.

Just once. Not every time but once, I wanna see the interview go like this...

"We send it back down to the field now where Token Woman is with Winning Hero"

"Thanks Mustachioed Announcer. Winning Hero, this team was down in the series, you were down tonight, but you just kept fighting back. This team just seems to have so much gutty resolve."

"I think you just answered your own question there. In fact thats not really a question at all."

"How huge was that play by Joe Blow back in the fourth inning?"

"Not that big. If he was any good he'd be a regular starte wouldn't he? He did his job, what does he want a cookie? He already make four million a year to sit on the becnh eight innings a game."

"What does it mean to win it all at home in front of so many friends and family?"

"Seriously, did you go to school for this? Or does someone write these for you?"

"Ok, go celebrate!"

(running off) "I was gone three minutes ago!"

Damn, that'd be sweet.

-Have I mentioned how much I hate the library? There is a squinting woman on the computer across from me loudly complaining to the librarian about all the junk mail in her e-mail inbox. Wait, now she's going to make copies. I can hear her complaining about all the copies she has to make from way over here. Groan.