21 Days

Beginning August 7th, the Sox entered the most important 3 week stretch of the entire season. Its a 'make it or break' period in which the Sox play every day - 21 games- against the best and more important teams. Of those 21 games, 14 are at home. As I write this, the Sox are already 4-2 during the stretch, with a loss to the LA Angels (make-up of a rain out), 2-1 vs the New York Yankees, and most importantly, 2-0 vs the AL Central leading Detroit Tigers. After a 4-game series to perpetual cellar-dwellers Kansas City (I'm going to Wednesday's game), the Sox play 3 in Minnesota and 4 in Detroit, before coming home to face the Twins for 3 more games. In this stretch, the Sox could cut the Tigers lead significantly, and single-handedly knock the Twins out of the race altogether. No news news here... So far, from what I've seen of these 6 games, the Sox appear to be coming around. Sure, they've gotten some breaks, but are finally starting to show some signs of life.

Lots else happenin here at Southside Adventures Global Headquarters.

I'm beyond broke and seeking new employment. I've gone so far as to apply for the night shift at the local sex motel.

I've been slowly reading thru The Best American Short Stories 2005 and so far its really great. The first story in the collection is about baseball. I've also picked up some Carl Sandburg.

Saw two moveis this week. The original Red Shoe Diaries with David Duchnovy was horrible. You've got to start somehwere, I guess. The sex scenes were Ok, but it just didn't hold together for me. A much better film was Green Street Hooligans with the gnome-like Elijah Wood. Its the semi-true story of the West Ham 'fan' (read;thug) group call the Green Street Elite (GSE) which in real life is known as the Inter City Firm. A lot of the thuggery focuses on the real life rivaliry between West Ham and Millwall, who's 'firm' is not named, but in real life are called 'The Bushwackers'. Violent, but a fine picture.

My softball league in the burbs is done for the year. We finished up the season with our best win of the year, a good one against a good team, to finish out the campaign 4-10. With Lollapalooa over, the city league revs back up the week - 3 more games to go.