This is only a Test

Over the past weekend the wife and I made our every other month trip to Sam's Club. While strolling in we walked past the big screen Tv's with football on them. Erin (wife) says, hey that sure would be nice for football and movies! Thinking to my self, Damn right woman! the bigger the better. i play along and ask what size would you think we would get? She thinks a 50' Plasma would do. Very Nice! After looking at a couple for a few minutes I begin to get back to our real shopping list. We don't get more than 10 steps and we come across a Bose surround sound. She says to me, Wouldn't that be great to have? Much better than having wires all over the place and better sound. I says Damn right woman! I explain to her how that would allow us to get rid of the DVD player and receiver because it takes care of it with that 'little thingy' there. WOW! Once again we start on our path to the real reason we went there and continue our day. That evening she starts to measure out where the tv would fit in our apartment and how we could rearrange the furniture to make everything look 'better'. Now the question I have to anyone reading this is a simple one, Is this just a test? Is this one of those times that she has baited me and just waiting for me to say lets go get it and then she snaps? Why does she want a big Tv? It can't just be because she doesn't like the food at BW3's (Buffalo WildWings, don't know exactly where the 3's part came from). Seeing the Notebook on a 50' Plasma with incredible Bose sound probably doesn't do a lot more than seeing it on a 27' tv. Does it? She can't really want me to have a bigger TV than almost anyone in my Fantasy Football league, she knows that means everyone will be at The Penthouse (my pad) every Sunday, Monday, and occasionally on Thursdays and Saturdays, right? The next thing you know she will want to get a kegerator for good measure. Maybe put up some pictures of the Swedish ski team. At this point the decision on the Tv is a hold, but only until I can determine with more certainty if it is only a test.

A Yankee Dilema

Greetings to you. It is the Dawg days of August and the baseball season will soon be playing second fiddle to NFL games that mean less than a Lions scrimmage. As I sit at home filling out my box scores for the yankee game vs the blue jays, I begin to think about the conundrum that I am in. I am a yankee fan. (Insert Boo here... Insert other comments here) Say what you will but my parents had it right when I was young. I had the Pj's with the feet on them and Yankee pinstripes. Look out for the zipper on those things, the effects can be lifelong. But I was listening to the am radio and the announcers were discussing some changes to the lineup that the Boss might be considering. I look back to last year and all of the discussion of letting Bernie Williams go. Being a yankee fan and knowing what it was that Bernie did for this team I was pissed. Now the talk is about who they could bring in to replace Mo. Dang! Nothing like getting rid of one of the best closers ever. Now this is where the problem starts. To be a Yankee fan to me that means doing what it takes to win. Right now they aren't winning. Yup not winning a world series means not winning. Just winning your division every year doesn't define winning (see twins past five seasons). So to make changes and try to win is what i should expect and demand as a dreaded yank. But to see some of these guys leave the team would be really strange. Seeing Jorge in a Royals uni would be just too much. Having joe leave and someone else sit there and collect checks and rings would be weird. But even more uncomfortable than seeing Mo play in Chavez Ravine is the lack of the bling. It is all about the ring. So I say make the moves, do what you have to, just get another championship in New York before they leave the house that Ruth Built for the Compound that George erected. Do work son.