It is a very exciting time in Merica. In the throes of a Presidential election and baseball's post season. Of course then the nation's focus is torn between football and the triumphant return of the New Kids On the Block.

Less important issues aside though, the boys of Summer have done little to make this young post season very interesting. The Phillies showed their strength early jumping to a 2-0 series lead over the Brewers. They took Saturday off, opting to allow a inner city Philadelphia little league team to plain in their stead. The kids played hard but the Brewers managed a 4-1 victory. When the Phils returned Sunday though, wanting to win but not run, they hit 4 home runs to put away the Brew Crew and promptly got the hell out of Wisconsin as quickly as possible. The Cubs, finally remembering who they are, came out playing Cubs baseball and promptly dropped 3 games to the LA Manny Ramirezes. This makes the city of Chicago a collective 0-5 in October with the Rays still convinced that they know what they're doing and owning every aspect of the series against the White Sox. This brings us to the really important series: Red Sox - Angels. As all of the analysts reminded us, the Angels were "the best team in baseball" for the regular season, and that Mike Lowell is "not 100%". What they failed to account for though is that it's October now (month of the Red Sox) and Mike Lowell doesn't have anything but 100%. So of course I was the only one not surprised when the BoSox took both games in Anaheim and are poised to sweep the series at home.

In other news. There was a proposed bill to spend $700 bill. to bail investment firms like AIG out of their financial fail boat. Congress though rejected the bill, some of them having accidentally actually thought about the possible consequences while distracted from the strippers. The stock market misinterpreted this to mean Congress had developed souls or perhaps even a collective conscience, displayed its disapproval by plunging a record 777 points in one day. Fortunately, the bill was "sweetened" (with Splenda and cash under the table) and Congress agreed to take $700 bill. (which we don't have) and give it to companies who used to have that kind of money, and would like to have it again.