I thought that was a pretty great quote from Lou (that first part above is, I'm pretty sure, verbatim).
Especially in these times of black cats and goats and '69 curse reminders.
But I also thought that when Matt Sinatro and Lou decided to drive to Cinci and got lost... funny for sure but kinda set the tone for that series, you know?
Lou, you're the driver here.
No matter what happens with sore shoulders or sleeping bats or talk of curses.
I've placed all my faith in you, bro.
When I look at the Yankees and Joe Girardi... I'm still just SO glad that things worked out like they did and you're here in Chicago.
Or... hopefully St. Louis right now.
Cincinnati did us a favor by staying hot and beating the Brewers.
And now we can get back to some very serious baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals.
My favorite rivalry in all of sports.
15-6 Ryan Dempster will face 13-6 Kyle Lohse.
And I'm sure the Cubs are working up a large shoulder chip with this string of crapball, so I'm expecting good things to begin today.
Go Cubs.
ps: I got invited to speak at host Don Evan's "Lovable Loser's Literary Review" at El Jardin last night.
His blog can be found here.
Among the other guys who spoke were Rick Kogan (WGN's Sunday Papers and Chicago Trib guy) who's a contemporary of Mike Royko's and a legend himself, Lin Brehmer of XRT (if you listen to him you already know he's a huge fan, and funny guy too), author Jim Garner who's written a bunch of books and has a blog called Bardball.com which is sort of baseball and poetry.
And a couple others, and me.
What the hell I was doing in a room with genius guys is beyond me, but everybody seemed to like the illustrations (I showed a couple and read the one about the Bartman play.)
Pretty much fun.
