WE'RE BACK

We got off to a tough luck start, but we're back. We. Are. Back.

Tonight Wake Forest celebrated it's now annual victory over Florida State, putting us at 4-2 overall and 3-1 in the ACC. If BC loses in-conference and we win in-conference, we're on top of the Atlantic division! I wonder who they play next in the ACC...

Thu, Oct 25 at (12) Virginia Tech 7:30 pm

Niiiice. Our next ACC opponent is UNC, on the 27th.

Until then, enjoy this picture of The Phonz relaxing on an invisible, slightly inclined sofa.

go indians! (pause) boo indians!

That's what happens when your team is already in the ALCS and you're hoping the Yankees don't make it that far. You pull for the Indians; then, the very moment they succeed, immediately turn on them because your enemy's enemy is now your enemy.

I must say, I never thought at the beginning on the season - hell, two weeks ago - that the Red Sox's championship series associates would be the Indians, D-Backs and Rockies. Whereforeartthou Yankees and Cardinals and Astros? I feel like a frat member whose brothers all dropped out and now has to hang out with the pledges. Maybe next year, guys.

Watching Joe Torre on the tube right now, I have to feel for the guy. I'm annoyed by a lot of things about the Yankees - A-Rod's lip gloss, Jeter's fade haircut, the media's contradictory treatment of those two, the payroll that's still 50% more than Boston's - but Torre is certainly no part of it. If Old Man Steinbrenner really cans him, other teams would be smart to make every effort to pick him up.

The Indians will be very tough to beat. Sabathia and Carmona (who last year had the worst tenure of "closer" in history) should probably go 1-2 in the Cy Young voting. Their key will be how the 3 and 4 starters and their horrible but oddly effective closer perform. For Boston, they couldn't be hotter. Manny and Ortiz are peaking simultaneously (!), and the bullpen got back on track after a rough patch. If Daisuke can pitch well I think Boston will definitely get to the Series.

Prediction: Boston in 6.

BOOM!

God I love baseball.

finally

Part 1: After over a year of planning, I *finally* got to play Halo 3 by visiting Mike for the weekend. It was worth the 860 miles driven in a three day span. The campaign mode is a little short but still lots of fun to play. I became very confused by the "Believe" commercials, though, because the battle portrayed therein was not part of the campaign. When the game ended, I was expecting one last level that would look like "Believe" - some sort of final show down between humans and the covenant where the Chief gets captured before doing something with a plasma grenade. But I guess not. I think the multiplayer is the best of the trilogy. The one flaw of the original was that the pistol was far superior to every other weapon, the flaw of the second was that winning depended too much on duel-wielding. Here I think a happy medium was perfectly found. Duel-wielding, grenading, meleeing, or assault-rifling are all about equally effective. Also the plasma pistol doesn't home-in anymore, so using it with a Battle Rifle isn't such an annoyingly dominating strategy. From Friday night to early Sunday morning Mike and I played about 16 hours total.

Part 2: The Red Sox *finally* won the AL East!!! When the division lead went down to two with about two weeks left I really started to worry. Especially with the Yankees finishing the season with Tampa Bay and Baltimore. But those crazy bottom feeders didn't roll over and helped a refusing-to-implode Boston team clinch the division with two games left in the season. Phew!

classic comedy comes to life

but as it turns out, "who" isn't on first. he plays shortstop.