The Odd Blog Summer In Review

It may not seem like it, but this is probably make this summer because on Friday it’s back to school again. I can’t believe this… it seems way to soon to go back to… that place. I’ve taken the last few weeks off to enjoy as much of summer as I can, and that last post sums up the Royals’ season anyway, so I don’t feel bad about taking off announced. Well, I tried to announce it but for some reason Twitter was down so I couldn’t do anything about it. As far as I know, it’s still down here for some reason.

It’s been a wild summer, so let’s take you back to some of the memorable moments. (MY memorable moments. You can do your own.)

First of all, somewhere in there David Ortiz was discovered to have used steroids. You can go here to read my usual spiel. I’m too lazy to write it, and you’ve heard it too many times anyway, so just imagine it.

Now to the summer in animals! Everybody remembers last year when there were a bunch of bugs at Jacobs Field in Cleveland. This year, it was birds.

photo: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ki5EPOdCHyM/SjHdoUwom61/AAAAAAAADII/HtsKQflRzO4/s400/Cleveland+bird_6-11-09_2.jpg

Some say Coco Crisp couldn’t throw out the runner. I think we should play it over anyway… in a dome! It’s not that I don’t like playing out in the elements. I just dislike it when stray birds affect the outcome of the game. Grumble…

Then there were the bees at the Padres game. I didn’t really care about those, but I’m still wondering why the Padres had a beekeeper on speed dial.

Now there’s this little incident from Kansas City:

photo: mlb.com
Whoa. That picture was a little bigger than I wanted it to be. I still need some work putting images in. Anyway, this one didn’t cause too much of a delay, and it didn’t really mess up the game or anything, so I’m saying that this was probably the best animal encounter 2009. Of course, if it had been Coco Crisp up to bat instead of in the field in Cleveland, I’d probably choose differently.

Now back to the present. I’m that are offense finally learned how to play the game. (You swing the bat at the ball. Not at the air, the ball!) We’ve had 40 hits in the last three games, as opposed to three hits in 40 games the last few months (purely hypothetical). Even so, I feel like we’ve cemented our place in the basement of the AL Central. Now we’ve just got one more obstacle:

photo: sportslogos.net 
Come on, Natinals! You may not be able to spell your own team name right, but you can start winning games! Let the Royals have the first overall draft pick! You don’t *cough cough* need it! *cough*

That’s all for now. I’ll probably get back to blogging once I get back into the grind of school. Argh. School…

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