Ooo look! Shiny!

I don't feel that I have any sort of attention deficit problem.  But I do admit that I am easily distracted by shiny things.  And interesting things.  And round/circular things...I find that shape pleasing.  And funny things.  And cars.  And animals.  And vampires. Okay...maybe my attention span could be crisper.  Even the path that brought me to my attention span was circuitous and tangential.

I wanted to write about the Atlanta Braves.  I love them.  A lot.  But I haven't really talked much about my love of MLB, mostly just the Reno Aces, and I didn't want you to think that I got confused by the similar A logo on the jerseys.  So I thought I'd explain that, back in the day, I was actually a Pittsburgh Pirates fan.  I still am. (Hey!  At least I kept it in the National League!)  But my husband was a bigger watcher of televised games than me so the Braves games were always on.  And I always watched.  And back then they had such a class act on the field (does the name Terry Pendleton mean anything to you?!) that I couldn't help fall in love with them.

And I'm back to the Pirates!  I came to love the Pirates because I was a Steelers fan.  And I was a Steelers fan from the time I was about thirteen years old when they beat the Dallas Cowboys in the Superbowl.  My best friend was a Cowboys fan and, as most good rivalries tend to start, I had to cheer against her team.  The Steelers did right by me so I adopted the Pirates too.  I always thought Sid Bream was fun to watch...though perhaps not the most exciting guy on the field and certainly not the fastest!...and then he ended up on the Braves....

Pirates!  I was talking about Pirates!  September 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!  This awesome day of celebration and Scurvy-prevention-juice-drinking was started in my home state of Oregon.  Put it on your calendar and start planning your pirate party!

Wait!  I mean the Braves!  I wanted to talk about the Braves!  This is Chipper Jones' final year and he is making it a helluva year.  It would be great if the team were doing just a tiny bit better as an organization.  But there is still some season left.  Not much, I admit, but some.  Go Larry!

But the super-important news is the Aces!  They won game one of the PCL Championship series against the Omaha Storm Chasers 13-1 last night.  And I'm supposed to be going to get my friend Deb so we can go to the game.  We were driving around in her '70 Pontiac LeMans convertible today...pretty...red...

ACES!! I'm going to the Aces game!  I'll let y'all know how it went when I get home!

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