Good losses

In case you haven't been overly patriotic to La Nation des Red Sox as of late, I'll tell you that the last two games have been close, close losses. My 2007 Cy Young Award winner, Hideki Okajima, blew a save, and Jonathan Papelbon came in only to lose the game on Sunday. On Monday (well, it was still Monday on the west coast), the Red Sox came back to tie the Oakland A's, only to lose in the bottom of the eleventh inning due to Eric Chavez and his ridiculous ability to pull an outside fastball over a right-field fence. Kyle Snyder gave that up, despite that he made Chavez look silly on the previous pitch, a change-up in the dirt that Chavez went around on. Taihen na loss. (Tough loss.)

Still, I've watched these last two games and I think the Red Sox have been playing like they have all this year. Wily Mo Peña single-handedly helped Mark Ellis not once, not twice, BUT THRICE to hit for the cycle. Okay, that doesn't prove my point, but I find it amusing. Anyway, honestly, the other two teams were on, and so were the Red Sox. The failures weren't overly grand, especially not with a bazillion-game lead in the American League East, and it's 10 oh-five PM EST tomorrow for another late-night fiesta.

Fiesta. Fiesta, fiesta.

This stuff doesn't really matter. In other news, I'm in the midst of reading Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions (AND I HAVE TO REMEMBER TO GO TO THE HAMILTON-WENHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY IN THE MORNING TO PICK UP MY COPY OF AFTER DARK BY MURAKAMI)... Vonnegut's fun. I'm surprised that all these critics lost interest with him after what are generally perceived to be as his four masterpieces (Slaughterhouse-Five, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Cat's Cradle, The Sirens of Titan), because although he gets more and more radical in his viewpoints (or just more blatant?!), he remains a maker of really thought-provoking points. I thought I'd put up this passage...

Never mind; I don't find the passage as amazing as I thought it was at first; either that or I just don't remember what it is. Either way, the book is animated in a deranged way.

And if I don't find the passage as provoking anymore, then that's a good loss.
(But that line's not a good ending to this freewrite.)