Don't panic.

I'm always amazed in this town about how we've figured out the Indians season already. OK, Captain Cheeseburger lasting 37 pitches wasn't a good thing. Fernando Cabrera giving up more runs in Game 1 than he did all of last year, well, that wasn't so good either.

I actually turned on the radio at 12:15 to hear Hammy, Matt Underwood and Homer Mike talking. WTF? They are gonna play? After a three-hour delay? Sure enough, I turn on the TV and we start again. Cabrera on the mound and it's raining like Hawaii out there. The guy can't throw strikes. This needs to be corrected soon. Don't forget, he didn't compete for a spot and went to the WBC and didn't pitch much this spring. And then Jim Thome hit one into orbit off him. Wow. And I love the fact that Peter Gammons is on the broadcast (keeping score, too), but they had him behind the screen and he looked like he was in jail.

Hammy was great though on the radio. You could tell he was getting pissed that the Tribe was losing. He was carping about the fact they were playing in the rain and someone could get hurt. I thought to myself if the umps called it early, it would be like the mercy rule and I didn't want that. I lasted until Blake hit a double in the eighth and I shut it down like the chef about 1:40.

BTW, the Chicago Tribune mentioned that several Sox players thought that the Tribe has a chip on their shoulder after collapsing last season. Wedgie got pissed and said, "I don't know how the hell would they know that." Uh-oh, I guess the front office really does hate the White Sox.

Meal of Links

Gloria Monty died. She was the woman who saved "General Hospital". Trust me, back then, Luke and Laura were the hottest thing going. Then we found out about the World Security Bureau with Luke and Scorpio. Then Grant Putnam hooked up with Celia Quartermaine in that Prometheus Disk fiasco. And then Blackie went to jail and then Lesley Webber finally stopped crying when she got killed in a car accident but then came back like 15 years later and then...

Cue "I've got the power". The day I left Hawaii, it rained. And it rained. Then it rained some more. And some more. Then, it finally stopped Over this past weekend. 41 days later.

The best thing about last night's Indians game was, once again, the VW ads. Peter Stormare, representing Deutschland, is killing me as he wants to "unpimp ze auto". When he gives the VW sign, I am rolling every time. Holla.

Exercise Yard

The Masters is this week. After 21 days of watching hoops, I'm happy to watch something slower.

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