Detroit Tigers @ MindSay

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.

This morning I did some window shopping and found the coolest thing I'm gonna get by brother for x-mas.

It's a Detroit Tigers Pizza Cutter that plays the end of the 2006 ALCS that they won. It's pretty freakin' sweat.

My brother is a die-hard Tigers fan so this is perfect. Everytime he has pizza he'll be reminded how awesome Detroit sports teams are.

I plan to go back and buy it later. I may even pick one up for myself.

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.

I watched bits and pieces of the series the Tigers played against the A's this weekend. I didn't watch any of the games all the way through. The one a Saturday I was watching while on my dinner break at work and I couldn't stay to watch all of it becasue I had to get back to work. The game on sunday was a blowout after the second inning and I got bored really quick (although Ordonez's two homers in the second was cool).

But I notice something interesting. It seems like the Tigers' manager, Jim Leyland, never smiles. Or at least never smiles while the TV cameras are on him.

The Tigers are the top ranking team in the A.L. right now. They went to the World Series last year. You'd figure that their manager would smile every once in a while during a game. Even when the score was eight to two in the second inning of the game on Sunday Leyland was looking all serious.

I just think it's a bit odd that's all. The guy should smile more.

 

Thanks,

Mark