Potpourri
2007-09-30 @ 9:24 a.m.

"I thought red for men...maybe pink for girls...and then orange for a MMF..."

He says all this while I admire my gift. I nod my head but I'm barely listening. "Yeah, yeah, yeah..." I'm thinking. "Whatever floats your boat."

Then I hear 'red...pink...orange.' Red, pink orange?

I hit the brakes hard. "Whoa, there, Martha Stewart," I said. "Just tell me when I should add a charm and I pick out what I want. Which, I can assure you, will not be colors that look like they were selected by a color-blind, 75 year old accountant." Personally, I'm leaning towards turquoise.

Anyway, that's my fella. Color-coordinator extraordinaire.

Thought I'd send some new blogs your way. They're new to me but may not be new to you. Check them out if you have time. There's All My Love, by Kitty and The Provocateur. Good stuff, that.

A word on my prognostication abilities: They suck! Back aways, maybe in May or June, I wrote that the Yankee were finished. Hit the nail on the head with that one, didn't I? Which is why, despite my best efforts, I cannot truly hate the Yankees. It's too hard to respect a team and hate them.

And I do respect the hell out of the Yankees. Lets put aside payroll and all that business stuff and talk baseball. As a Sox fan, I know fear. I generally experience fear every September when the Sox are in first, even when they have a substantial lead. Sox fans know fear and it usually arrives in a dark blue cap and pinstripes. Sox fans and the Sox themselves have a tendency to panic when the Yankees nip at our heels. You see it and hear it Sox fans and dare I say, the players themselves.

Not so with the Yankees. They seem to ooze professionalism and confidence. Sure, they've blown a lead our two. They've choked here and there. Such events don't seem to seep into the Yankee consciousness. I admire that calm, self-confident demeanor. Perhaps I'm not a good Sox fan but how can a baseball fan not respect a team that battled back from a 14 game deficit to make the playoffs? Wish for their utter collapse, yes. Hate or not respect them?

Or maybe it's ARod and Jeter. I know that technically there's no position between shortstop and third base but with those two, I think a new position should be invented. And I know just the girl to fill that position.

To show you how much of a Sox fan Steve is, I've told him a number of times that one of my fantasies is a threesome with Alex and Derek. He hits the roof every time I mention that fantasy. It's not jealousy, however. He just wants to know why I can't pick two Sox.