NOTE: This was supposed to be posted Wednesday, but I forgot to publish it. :p

Today is my last day before school starts. I’ve had a great summer watching the Mets and just relaxing from school, but today I have been so bored. None of my friends are around, except one. We walked to the pizzeria for lunch and then came back to my house for about 20 minutes before his mom called and he had to leave. There is nothing to do. I am tired of video games, the internet only goes so far, there is no baseball game on now, and there is nobody to go outside and play with. My little sister is complaining how bored she is but she is too lazy to go outside. I am playing fall little league but that doesn’t even start until tomorrow. I  think I am ready to go back to school.

But all today I have been thinking, doing lots of thinking. So here are some random thoughts I have had:

• Look at all the great baseball players who have there baseball careers cut short from the military: Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Hoyt Wilhelm, Christy Mathewson, Bob Feller, Yogi Berra. There are a lot more. Imagine how good their numbers would be if they got to play all those years!
• Last night the Mets TV station, SNY, did a silent sixth inning. They gave the broadcaster’s the inning off. It was actually very boring. Because at this point in the year the game does not even matter, and the actually game wasn’t very exciting anyway. I was watching and then just started thinking about school starting and before I knew it there were two outs.I need the broadcasters to keep me entertained at this point of the year. Now if I was AT the game that would be different of course, because then I can look around a lot and see the whole field.
• Uhh, what other thoughts do I have? I forget. I am so bored right now my attention span has shrunk to the size of Eddie Gaedel.

Next time I make a blog post I will be back in school. Hopefully then I will be less bored and actually be motivated to make a good post. :p

Last night, I was watching the Mets game. It was a great game, low score, fast pace. Cory Sullivan hit a solo homer in the second inning and that was the only run in the game until the seventh, when the Cubs tied it. In the eighth Kevin Gregg came in and then was replaced by Angel Guzman. Together they allowed the Mets to score 5 runs to make it 6-1. It was a great inning, the Mets were putting together hit after hit after hit after hit. Very exciting to watch, terriffic rally. The only thing was, I wasn’t very excited.

I mean, I was glad that the Mets were winning and it was fun to watch, but the whole time I was thinking, “So what, this doesn’t mean anything. I would love this if we were in a pennant race but this doesn’t mean anything.”

Often I have wondered what it is like to be a fan of the Royals, or the Nationals, or the Pirates, or the Padres. I think to myself, “I wonder how they get through the season, when they know the games don’t count for anything.”

So I ask you: if you are a fan of a losing ballclub, how do you get through the season?