Look Who's Thirty!

Roger and I celebrated our 30th birthdays last week. As we met when "[we were] just seventeen" (Beatles reference), we've known each other for almost half of our lives. Amazing!

Less than thrilling things that occurred this past week. The Red Sox did NOT sweep the Yankees, although the Cubs did regain some ground in the NL Wild Card Standings. We are hoping that the BoSox will regroup soon and be even better and stronger for the play-offs.

In the meantime, when we're not watching NESN, we are catching up on our "Sex & the City." We are latecomers to the party that is SATC. We've been renting a DVD each week and are now two-thrids into Season Three. I didn't think Roger would enjoy the show this much! Hee hee. He even bugs me to reveal future plot points - What happens to Trey? Does Aidan come back?

The new Sunday night star is Fox's "Arrested Development". We've been watching it since Episode 01. It is hee-larious. We especially like the inept Buster and his jealousy towards adopted brother An Yang. And the rivalry between Michael and GOB. The freshman show received its first Emmy for Best Comedy Series last night. Hooray!

Shut Up! Shut Out!

Last night, Roger and I were reading our respective texts - his, a manual on cardiac procedures and mine, a manual on the audio editing application Sound Forge 6.0 - as we took in the Red Sox vs. Angels game on our new favorite TV station, NESN (New England Sports Network). We enjoy listening to the NESN commentators, whom they show occasionally as two laid back guys in collared shirts, often keeping company with a small stuffed Green Monster reclining in a white adironack lawn chair and a Sox bobble head toy, we think it's Pedro Martinez. It was a good game for a Sox fan, and a Manny Ramirez fan (he went on to hit three homers), as the Sox took charge early on, 10-1.

Perhaps even sweeter was the running game summaries at the bottom of the screen that showed Cleveland Indians pummeling the NY Yankees! First it was 3-0, then 6-0, then 12-0. And on and on. To read more on the Indians-Yankees game (Indians 22, Yankees 0), pop over to this good USA Today article. Here are some interesting facts, records, that were broken or matched by last night's game:

• The previous AL player with six hits was Detroit's Carlos Pena on May 27 at Kansas City. Jorge Orta had been the last Cleveland player with six hits in a nine-inning game, on June 15, 1980, against Minnesota.
• Vazquez also lasted 1 1/3 innings on April 14, 1998, for Montreal against Milwaukee.
• New York had never lost by more than 18 runs, falling 24-6 at Cleveland on July 29, 1928, and 19-1 at home against Detroit on June 17, 1925.
• Previously, the Yankees' biggest shutout loss was 15-0 at home against the Chicago White Sox on May 4, 1950.