Out of my lucky face
No more ranting about the Cubs. Am currently auditioning other teams to become the Official 2006 Favorite Club of Mr. Faded Glory, which — depending on the Cubs’ administration and/or upcoming (please!) housecleaning — may actually be permanent.
I’m leaning toward the Detroit Tigers, namely because I’m partial to their uber-cool hats, uniforms, logo, current stadium, and old stadium. (Also because they rebuilt within the last few years just as the Cubs should have done — and Ivan Rodriguez and Maggs Ordonez were both talents I suggested the Cubs overpay for…) Also in the running: Colorado Rockies, Philadelphia Phillies, Cleveland Indians, and Toronto Blue Jays. We’ll continue to keep our eyes on the Baltimore Orioles, as well as productive (a-FUCKING-hem) No. 6 hitter Corey Patterson.
Regardless, today is a new day. And the bad is succintly summed up in the Sun-Times Saturday sports page.:
Baker: ‘I don’t know what’s going on’
The only thing worse than hitting rock bottom is the anxiety that the real thud hasn’t yet come.
More true words never spoken. It’s not going to get better. Not till 2007, at the earliest.
But, juxtaposed with the bad, we’ve got the good:
Boston, May 25:
set: Severed Hand, Corduroy, World Wide Suicide, Do The Evolution, Given To Fly, Dissident, Even Flow, Marker in the Sand, Low Light, Insignificance, Army Reserve, Garden, I Got Id, State of Love and Trust, Comatose, Inside Job, Rearviewmirror
first encore: Wasted Reprise, Man of the Hour, Elderly Woman…, Parachutes, Black, Alive
second encore: Why Go, Life Wasted, Smile, Indifference, Leash, Rockin’ in the Free World, Yellow Ledbetter
According to The Sky I Scrape, it’s the first time Pearl Jam has played former crowd-incitement-anthem Leash since 1995. Leash! That means on this tour they’ve resurrected not only w.m.a., Rats, Garden, Satan’s Bed and I’m Open — but now the intense and powerful Leash! Get out of my fucking face, indeed!