Weekend Update

Time to get back to a little more of our regularly scheduled programming. My rambling on about the White Sox is probably not that interesting to a majority of the people who read this (yes, that would equate to two of the three) but I really can’t overstate just how amazing it was to watch baseball this week. I’ve gone my entire life without ever seeing a Chicago team in the World Series and it finally has happened. It’s like I now have to decide whether this means that anything is possible and I should take all those risks I’ve been to reluctant to take all of these years or that this is a clear indication that the world is about to end. It’s a coin flip between the two.

I should also discuss the other huge sporting event from the weekend, which was the Notre Dame-USC game. First of all, that was just a great game to watch. The crowd was into it and it was just a back and forth slugfest. Both teams were down at times and the game could have been a fourteen point victory either way and you wouldn’t have been surprised. In the end, I’ll be honest and say the more talented team had the ball last and won the game. Sure, it took an incredible fourth down pass, a lucky fumble, and an illegal push by Reggie Bush to accomplish it, but USC won all the same.

As an ND fan, I certainly would have liked to see the team win but I am definitely holding my head high. Remember, there were a lot of sports pundits who were predicting that ND would be 1-5 at this point in the year. I’ll take being 4-2 having lost one game in overtime and the other on the last play of the game. It is a team that is overachieving like mad and this is a good sign that when Weis starts bringing his players in we will get back to the Notre Dame we all know and love. The nice thing is that there was that much emotion and drama surrounding the game. That is one of those things that makes you want to believe that Notre Dame football is back.

I ended up watching the game in my apartment. I originally planned on going out to a local bar to watch the game but I happened to discover that the Oklahoma-Kansas game was being played in KC that night. This meant that the town was swarming with Oklahoma fans and it just isn’t that much fun when you want to be watching the game with a bunch of people in green shirts and everyone is in red. Plus, it made traffic just horrible to deal with. I mean, you’d be driving through the plaza and then traffic would just stop and you’d realize that it was a Oklahoma fan who had seen one of the fountains and is therefore being introduced to the concept of running water…

(See, I don’t just make fun of Kansas)

Otherwise, it was a really quiet weekend. No concerts, not much going out, just a recharge my batteries type of weekend. I did pick up five CDs from Amazon, which is scary in and of itself. But, one of them gave me another potential slogan for the back of the Battling the Current t-shirt. Here it is (from a Josh Ritter song) “I’ve been from here to Lawrence, Kansas, trying to leave my state of mind.” I think it is pretty cool and that is all that is important.