The End of Baseball

My prognostication abilities have never been in such high order as this year in baseball.  Here’s a sampling:

 

1) I will do well in my fantasy baseball league of which I’m the commissioner (I finished dead last)

2) Francisco Liriano won’t be that good this year (He was 12-3 with a 2.17 ERA)

3) The Twins won’t make the playoffs – I said this even as late as early September (they came back from a 12.5 game deficit to win their division)

4) Once the playoffs were starting, I said there’s no way the Cardinals will win the first series let alone the World Series (they won the World Series relatively easily)

 

Maybe I’ll just keep these ideas to myself next year.

 

Anyway, the end of the baseball season has left me with a void.  I don’t really watch TV other than baseball and Saturday Night Live, so now that baseball’s over, that leaves me watching about 20 shows a year.  I’ve started to make a priority out of watching "The Office" more now, but that still doesn’t cover much.  The end of baseball also slows down my web surfing.  I probably spend 20 minutes a day reading baseball related content on the web, so I’ve got a big whole to fill there too.

 

One website I’ve started to get addicted to is Wikipedia.  It’s at http://en.wikipedia.org and if you’re like me and interested in most everything, you can waste a lot of time there.  I’ve started clicking on the Random Article link on the left side and just letting it take me wherever it wants.  Without that, I would’ve never known about the Aromanians in Greece or life in Hamburg, AR.  Another thing I’ve found very interesting is the articles on baseball players out there.  If you’re missing out on baseball now that it’s over, it’s fun to read the stories about Sandy Koufax, Christy Mathewson and the rest out there.  What makes it interesting is it covers the high points of their careers, but it adds some text around their lives and why their careers unfolded as it did.

 

The beauty of Wikipedia is that it can be updated by anyone, plus it’s free of ads.  There’s quite a bit of information about every imaginable topic out there.  You’ll even find an interesting link on the Minnesota Whist page.