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TWINS WIN!

History was made people!

The MN Twins played today a 163rd game of the season. They were battling the Detroit Tigers for the American League Central title and the right to the playoffs.

But let's back up. They played a series with Detroit last week, which they split and left the Twins 3 games out of first place, with only four games left to play in the season. In the history of baseball, no team has EVER come back from such a deficit. Ever. Until now.

The Twins managed to do nothing but win while Detroit did nothing but lose. At least enough that they ended the regular season (162 games) in a tie for 1st place. That meant that these two teams had to go head to head in a one game playoff to determine who takes the title and gets to ride the wave into the postseason and whose season ends tonight.

The game was played here in Minnesota and it started at 4pm this afternoon. It just ended moments ago. It was an unbelievable game, all the more so for what it represented. It lasted 12 full innings with a seesaw score from the get-go. It ended up a Twins victory 6-5 in 12 innings.

And let me mention that after the game was over, home-grown Joe Mauer, led the team on a sprint around the warning track to give high-fives to every fan who could reach. The whole team followed in a mini-parade, thanking the fans for their contribution in the best way that they could. THAT is how we raise 'em in Minnesota.

Amazing, unbelievable, incredible, awesome.....never count them out!

Go Twins! You live to see the postseason...now we just have to mow down the Yankees!

We're gonna win Twins, we're gonna score! We're gonna win Twins, watch that baseball soar. Knock out a homerun, shout a hip-hooray! Cheer for the Minnesota Twins today!!!!!

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I Could Turn Into A Baseball Fan Now

Got a group of people together yesterday and drove to Detroit to go to the Tigers' game. I'm not a huge baseball fan, but I had a blast. It was a really exciting game, and the Tigers came from behind to score 6 runs in the 8th inning and win the game. It was crazy.

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Movies And Sports

So, I now have two weeks of teaching under my belt, and I still love my job. The kids aren't as well-behaved as they were at the very beginning, but they're still pretty good. I'm rearranging the seating chart this weekend, and hopefully that will help. And I emailed a couple parents whose children were not paying attention in class and not turning in work. It felt vindictive...I loved it.

I've been having the same dream where I'm teaching a whole lesson on subjects and predicates. I heard the slow, methodical cadence of my voice, pausing between the subject and predicate while I underlined each...it was all way too real. My dreams have become an extension of my waking hours. I don't enjoy it.

Speaking of things I don't particularly enjoy, I saw Hairspray last night and I didn't love it. It was ok, but I have no big desire to watch it again.

I did catch the last hour of 25th Hour on tv yesterday, and that is a movie I love. It's so great...I had forgotten what an awesome movie it is. I'm going to have to watch the whole thing now.

With the start of the college football season, Saturday was absolutely wonderful. Not even the fact that Michigan got absolutely spanked could take away from the wonderfulness of watching college football for hours upon hours. Each fall, the start of the college football season is probably the thing I look forward to the most, so I am a happy happy boy right now. I got to watch the Michigan State game, and after that the Illinois game, so it felt like I was home. It was nice.

Now I just need the Tigers to step it up. They're starting to stress me out. Do they not want to make the playoffs this year?

mood:

sad

music: Natalie Cole, "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye"

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So Much Left To Do

School seriously needs to start. With each day that goes by, I think about more and more things that I need to buy for my classroom. And of course, I buy them. Thankfully I get a pay check on Thursday. If school started any later than tomorrow, I think I'd have to start hiding my wallet.

Speaking of tomorrow, I'm pretty much ready. I just have to put together a getting to know you-type survey for the kids, and I'll be good to go. For Monday, anyway. The rest of the week is a whole other story. Don't get me wrong, I know exactly what I'm doing. I just don't have any of it ready. The following week is beyond me, though. I have no idea what I'll be doing. At least we (and I use the "royal we" here, it was really just the teacher next door to me) planned a year-overview, broken down by semester, quarter, and month. I felt like such a slacker. Oh well, now I just really need to come through for her with the lessons for Arabian Nights and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, so that's what I'm going to do right now. It should be interesting, since I haven't read either. I guess that's step number one.

In a completely unrelated side note, FOX's game of the week yesterday was either the Tigers and Yankees or Cubs and Cardinals. Every time time the Tigers are scheduled to play on FOX, they always show the alternate game down here, so I didn't really think about it. Naturally, they showed the Tigers...the one time I didn't think to check! Sometimes I swear there's a conspiracy against me.