The Friendly Skies

Maybe it's not the best of ideas to board a plane with $11,000 in cash stuffed in an envelope in your pants packet in your duffel bag. It's also not the best idea to drink your own urine. But Patches O'Houlihan does it anyway because it tastes good and makes him sterile. That's kind of my rationale for traveling with an obscene (for me) amount of cash on me when a cashier's check would probably be 22 times safer. But I mean, did anyone really expect anything else?

The last load of laundry is being done as I write this and just about all the T-shirts will be on display at the Series for as deep as I can go. The Garnett jersey is avoiding me and the Sikkow shirt has way too many holes in it after 12 years, but most everything else is available. The beard will be trimmed to the best of my abilities, Johnson will be flown out for maintenance purposes when ESPN wants to do their puff piece. I've a room at Caesar's Palace for three nights, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th, with two queen beds, so yeah I've got space available. If you're reading this, you're invited. Or I could go down as the only friendless player at the Series. Maybe that's the angle I can play up. I wanted to play in the Series so I could make some friends. That just might be sad enough to make the cut.....

Ding.
Ding.

Thank you Denver. City by the Bay. John Denver.

I'll take the City by the Bay. Sun Country, take me away.

More from San Francisco, with guest poster Nicholas J. Wolff, making his triumphant return to blogging after his unceremonious removal last year.

So it goes...

So it begins

Somehow I managed to eff up my first post. I'm not good at this.

So it begins

In trying to think of all the ways to communcate , why, with who, when, where and how absurdly ridiculous it all went down, this seemed to be the best way. This blog might run up until Saturday July 5th at around 2 PM. That would be one pathetic final post if that's the case. If the last post is on Tuesday July 15th at 3 AM, my life will probably be forever changed. We are 2,000 light years away from that moment right now.

I'm just so happy I'm playing. Man....