So you play a 162 game season.  Then have a 5 game first round playoff.  (I actually like the winner take all wild card.  It puts a huge emphasis on winning the division.)  If you have an ace, he gets to pitch 2 of the 5 games.  I am bias of course because of the A's, but having to face Justin Verlander twice seems almost impossible.  You have to win every other game he doesn't pitch.   Make it a seven game series and see who comes out on top.  If you can AFFORD an ace you have a terrific shot of making it to the next round.  Do you think the Yanks or Tigers would have won if it was 7 games instead of 5?  It makes a big difference when you have Sabathia or Verlander going instead of Fister or Kuroda.

 I am all for taste testings within supermarkets, but Walmart had a taste testing for no name coca cola.  "This no name coke would go well with a nice old cheddar cheese dear."

Expendables 2 - 8.0/10

We have a new BBQ restaurant right near our place.  They make a tremendous pulled pork sandwich.  There is nothing that smells better then a place that serves pulled pork covered with BBQ sauce.

Did you know that there is a professional mini golf tour?  We played at the best mini golf course in the States and there were people out there with multiple putters and their own golf balls.  The grand prize was $4,000.  Finally something lamer then being a professional bowler. 


So people don't hike in Myrtle Beach.  We didn't see one person on any of the trails that we did over the weekend.  It looked like we saw a scene from a horror movie.  There was a smoldering fire, and all their stuff was lying all over the place, but no people around.

Really dug the first Arrow episode.  It did seem like a rip off of the Batman story line, but overall it was well done.

Sara is gone for the next couple of days to a conference.  I will be putting the slow cooker to use I believe.  Maybe some spicy tacos will be in store.

Sometimes I get the words "exotic" and "erotic" mixed up when I am talking.  Erotic cheeses mean something completely different, and yet I don't know what it is.

People seem to enjoy posting pictures and comments about the events that their at, rather then actually enjoying the event that their at.

If you really know a topic you can tell if somebody knows just the bare minimum to have a conversation with you.  I hate having conversations with people like this.  You have no input, you are just spewing off something you heard from someone else.

Got a smoking deal in Niagara.  Tastings at 3 breweries and 2 wineries for $35.00 each.  They also pick you up from the hotel and drive you around.  That might be the best part about it.

 Still no hockey, I actually think they will get a deal done, but they need to be careful.  Fans in the mediocre NHL markets might be a tough sell to comeback. 

Oktoberfest is my worst nightmare.  Polka music, terrible sausage, and out of control drunk University students.  Even when I was in College I hated it.  I tried to like it because I love beer so much, but you can only dance to the Chicken Dance so much.

Did you know that their was a product that was marketed as a mustache fixer?  You wore it while you ate to make sure you didn't get food in your mustache.

Watched an interesting documentary about hyper active parents that are causing their children to not be able to make it in the real world.  They have had everything done for them their entire life.  I see this all the time when I am selling computers.  I try to talk to the student about what they are going to be using the computer for and the parents answer every question for them. 

There are a bunch of rip offs of American Horror Story that have come out recently.  They all stink, it's hard to make something frightening when you have a ghost of the week story.

Halloween is right around the corner.  There is nothing sexy about a zombie women.  And if you do think there is something sexy about a zombie you should do some more research.