I should have known that after declaring my first real sports allegiance, I'd immediately experience my first sports-related heartbreak. I could write about how the fact that Matt Barkley will finish his career having never beaten Stanford is a huge blemish or about how much I hate losing early in college football because it deflates your whole season or how I'm cheering hard for the Ducks now (the only hope to save America from another all-SEC BCS Championship), but I never really wanted to write anything after that game - I just wanted to post this gif. Now, however, instead of being a vindictive takedown of The Farm, it's just a sad metaphor for our season.
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In less depressing news, the baseball playoffs have commenced. Unfortunately, no one my age likes baseball, even though it's the best thing ever. One of the biggest regrets of my life was going out with friends on October 27th of last year. This rare moment of socialization, in which I didn't even have that great of a time (a fairly typical outcome when I associate with humans), proved to be extremely costly. While we were dining and froyo-ing, I missed Game 6 between the Texas Rangers and the St. Louis Cardinals, better known as "the greatest World Series game ever played" (according to every sportswriter ever). If these "friends" (downgraded to acquaintances after what they did to me) liked baseball, this never would have happened.
Needless to say, I make sure that catastrophe will never repeat itself by ensuring my Octobers favor hits by ballplayers over kicks with amigos. (The latter is surprisingly not a problem for me these days, maybe because I say things like 'kicks with amigos'). I feel quite vindicated tonight after witnessing two walk-off wins by the Yankees and A's. As someone who despises the Yankees for how they always pull
miracles out of nowhere, it sucked, and yet being there to experience it all also made it kind of rule.
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