Baseball is now done for me. My Tigers went into the month of September with a seven game lead in the AL Central. Then they started fumbling and losing some dumb games (THE ROYALS? SERIOUSLY?) and the Minnesota freakin Twins went on a streak winning like 17 of their last 21, including games against Detroit. It all culminated in an UNBELIEVABLE ( Read more... )

Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of Amanda's dad's passing. I'm a little worried how things will go for her, emotionally.

Secondly, the Detroit Tigers now just make me sad.

I'm finding it very difficult to give a shit this morning.

Quick recap for those keeping score at home:
Cancer sucks
Tigers suck
Cubs suck
Huskers really suck(ed ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was a hell of a day. Connor turned two yesterday so we had a nice little party for him with my folks, Amanda's dad and wife, her sister and husband and daughter ( Read more... )

Amanda mentioned the other night that she was thinking of donating her hair to Locks of Love. I'm torn. I'm quite a big fan of the Lock of Love program and encourage those that participate in it (my sister and her friend just donated a year ago or so ( Read more... )

It's opening day kids and for the first time in a while I get to watch the Tigers play an opening day game. The Fox Sports affiliate out here broadcasts a lot of KC Royals games so I get to cash in on it. Granted, the Tigers lost their first game of the season in extra innings to arguably the worst team in the American League, but I'm going to ( Read more... )

I decided a few weeks ago that this summer will be the summer of baseball for me and my oldest boys. I thought we'd go see a minor league game, maybe two, in addition to our usual trip to the College World Series, and maybe even go see the Huskers play baseball in Lincoln ( Read more... )