Jon will be home from St. Louis tonight and I’m looking forward to it. It’s been a relatively easy week of solo parenting but I’m exhausted.
Oh. Em. Gee. NLCS Game 7!!!! The Giants are the comback kids of the MLB. They came back from being 2 games down in Cincinnati and 3 games down in St. Louis. Game 7 was two excellent teams playing and while the score wasn’t even close, there were awesome moments. It was hysterically funny to watch Marco Scutaro enjoying the rain the 9th inning and I loved seeing Sergio Romo’s reaction to winning the game. Probably the best moment was Scutaro catching the fly ball from Holliday… who had injured him in Game 2 while sliding into second base. I have profound respect for the Cardinals — they messed with Texas last year. I also have a great deal of respect for Jason Motte, their closer, who issued this tweet after the game.
My World Series bet. I have a World Series bet with Emily. If my Giants win, she’ll donate $10 to International Justice Mission. If her Tigers win, I’ll be donating $10 to To Write Love on Her Arms. Both are worthy organizations and I’m glad that one (or maybe both) will benefit.
I’m wondering what happened in Game 1 of the World Series. Seriously… all the sports talking heads have been playing up Verlander and how he was going to shut out the Giants. Yeah, that totally happened… NOT! Verlander lasted only 4 innings and our Panda bam-BOOMED three home runs out of the park. Scutaro (whose jersey I’ll be acquiring one of these days) made it on base every time he was up and continued his 11-hitting streak. My homeboys won it 8-3 (2 of those points coming because Angel Pagan couldn’t jump high enough to catch a homer).
What truly disgusts me. You all have probably heard about Ann Coulter’s tweet in which she calls President Obama a “retard”. Many of you probably saw the well-written letter to her from a Special Olympics athlete. What really disgusts me, however, is seeing people who advocate for special needs children defending Ann Coulter. I saw someone on a message board explaining that Ann Coulter is “just a comedian like Stephen Colbert”. Two problems with that: 1.) Ann Coulter is not a comedian by any stretch of the imagination. She is a political commentator. 2.) Stephen Colbert may be a comedian but he knows that there is a line between being funny and being insulting. Ann Coulter never fails to go for the insult. Hearing people defend her is as nefarious to me as Greta Van Sustren’s statement that “nobody was insulted” by Todd Akin’s statements on “legitimate rape”.
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Really? This morning, I was walking the bear child to preschool when two minivans pulled up behind each other, barely avoiding us on the sidewalk. Two adults pile out and were pulling kids out of the car while screaming at them to get moving and that they were going to be late for school. Granted, I may or may not have been walking Daniel to school in my pajama bottoms but seriously??? YOU MORONS ALMOST RAN OVER MY SON AND ME!!!! This is freaking preschool — your kid is not going to get detention for being late like they would if it was middle school or high school where they were responsible for getting themselves to school. If you have a persistent problem with being late, try getting your precious sweetling up earlier. It’s not even like there was a drop-off line issue — the two of them came flying out of nowhere and the second one almost rear-ended the first one. Watching the adults and kids piling out was almost like watching a bunch of circus clowns.
Game 2 tonight. I used this as my last take because I generally put together Quick Takes over a few days and I was watching the game while assembling these. The pitchers seemed equally matched tonight. There were no runs batted in and had Posey not tagged Fielder out in the 2nd, it could have been Detroit who won. I also loved the interview with Romo and seeing him photobombing the Panda.
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Let’s see what happens in Detroit.
My ‘helper’ for RCIA apologized to everyone before class started: “My phone will beep…hopefully, a lot…because the Giants are on.” (no joke)
And regarding #6…I work at a school and can’t tell you how many times I’ve witnessed parents blame their 4 and 5 year olds for being tardy. As if the child was old enough (and responsible for) getting up on their own, getting dressed, and arranging transportation to and from school. I second that notion on preparedness on the part of parents when it comes to school.
Ann Coulter and her supporters are, once again, engaged in America’s favourite hobby: applying and defending double standards.
What is it about rushing to get children to school late, esp preschool? My theory was that if we didn’t leave home at a certain time, we would be late. No rushing on my part was going to change that. Rushing could give my children a less than ideal start to their day. PJ bottoms to take children to school? Definitely have done that. Even went to a before school teacher’s meeting that I’d forgotten about in PJ bottoms. Glad you survived your week!
I feel like the fact our pitchers had to hit can really make a difference. It’ll be different in Detroit, just you wait 😉
I did not see that post-game tweet. That shows great character.