My dad and I tried to go to the Sox Yankees game tonight but the game was rained out. That didn’t stop the executives in baseball land from getting about 30,000 people to come to Fenway park to sit under the rafters and consume $8.00 beers and $9.50 steak tip subs. Unfortunately we couldn’t pay Manny’s salary on the concessions because the lines were far too long even during an hour and a half pre-game rain delay. So we gave up on the Hill Top Steakhouse line and instead moseyed on over to Abe and Louie’s for a quality steak at not too much more than what it would have cost to snack at Fenway. My recollection from last year is that it rains all the time in May. With the new global warming climate changes I think we are in for a lot of reschedule games to August. Those games will seem to mean more if there is a pennant race.

The whole story of how they flew out Doug Mirabelli yesterday to catch Wakefield for the win was right out of Greek mythology (The Odyssey). Apparently he traveled on a jet plane and changed in a car led by the Mass State troopers in order to suit-up for the game and start catching upon arrival after being traded the morning before.