Posting this general post on Sunday night, but backdating it to the normal Friday slot for non-bridge posts.

Red Sox won the World Series tonight.  It was kind of anti-climactic.  I'm happy for my birth mother and the rest of her clan in Boston, but in spite of my best efforts I never really fell for this team.  The Japanese pitchers, Okajima and Dice-K, were pretty weak.  Manny Ramirez' much publicized 'not the end of the world if we lose' quote kind of turned me off.  And just the whole 'buying a championship' attitude that made me loathe the Yankees for so many years leaves me feeling ambivalent towards this team.  Mainly I'm just glad it's over.

A-Rod is leaning strongly towards opting out of the last 3 years of his massive 10-year $250 million contract.  That only interests me because of the $21 million that the Yankees won't get from the Rangers if he opts out.  I like the negotiation/game theory aspect of this and I'm curious to see if this ends up being the right decision.  It seems very counter-intuitive, but his agent, Scott Boras, is no dummy. 

Watched The Wind that Shakes the Barley today.  It was set in Ireland during the War of Independence in the early 1920's.  I had read some excellent reviews and unfortunately they raised my expectations a little too high.  It wasn't bad.  It held my interest.  But only barely.

Enjoying the latest Ultimate Fighter series.  Matt Serra's team is surprisingly crushing Matt Hughes' team.  Should be a good fight between the 2 coaches at the end.

If you missed the latest Bill Moyers journal with Charles Fried and Fritz Schwarz, I HIGHLY recommend it.  Part 1.  Part 2.  Fried is a pompous windbag, but Schwarz is brilliant.

I plan to get back on schedule with regular posts this week.  Sorry it's been pretty sporadic this month.