Season-Opening W

The intramural flag football season is finally underway! All the practice (a month and a half’s worth) and preparation (our massive 10-pg playbook, haha) is now being put to the test, and we passed our first test tonight with flying colors. Our offense was on fire, scoring touchdowns on our first seven drives of the game, and our defense played quite well en route to a fun 38-14 victory for Mid-Life Crisis. It was 38-12, but Moyer took a kneel-down in the end zone for a meaningless safety on the final play to run out the clock. If anyone wants to come watch, we have four more games this year on each of the next four Thursdays at 6pm on IM field #1, right next to the music building.
Talk about another frustrating Twins game. Right after Grad Synoptic, Jacob & I went down to Bill Pickle’s Tap Room downtown to catch the last half of the game. It was 2-0 Oakland in the 5th when we got there, so things were looking a bit down again. But then the Twinegmatics came to life in the 6th inning with back-to-back solo home runs by Michael Cuddyer and Justin Morneau. The front patio door at Pickle’s was open to the sidewalk, and apparently I was cheering and shouting so loud that I could be heard half a block away, haha. But that was it for the positivity on the day, as in the next half inning Torii Hunter dove for a ball in shallow center field and missed it, allowing the ball to roll all the way to the wall, resulting in a 2-run inside-the-park home run for the A’s. That totally deflated the Twins and killed all the momentum they’d just built, and they wound up losing 5-2 to fall into a 2-0 series hole. Now we just need Brad Radke, whose arm is practically falling off (torn labrum and stress fracture in his throwing shoulder), to give us a gutsy performance tomorrow to stave off elimination. We need to win two in Oakland to send it back to the Metrodome for a deciding Game 5, but I still believe!
In the other ALDS series, kudos to the Tigers for evening their series with the Yankees today 1-1! Whatever happens with the Twins, I want to see the Yankees lose.
Also today I got a letter in the mail from a somewhat anonymous friend at the University of Minnesota (judging from the envelope), and the only thing in the envelope was a 2006 Homer Hanky! But there was no note and no name anywhere, but while I can’t be sure who it was at this point, I have a sneaking suspicion it was Jolene who sent it. 🙂 At any rate, whoever it was, thanks!! I hope to have a chance to wave it around on Saturday for Game 4, because I won’t be able to catch Game 3 tomorrow afternoon, due to spending all day at the Penn State Christian Grads retreat out at Stone Valley, way out in the boonies.
I wonder if this study will lead to all sorts of senior citizens toking it up in nursing homes in the near future… 🙂