Well, if the first two pre-season games have been a preview of the 2012 World Series, the Yanks are up 2-0 on the Phillies. A few windblown homeruns and some good Yankee pitching being the highlights. A-Rod going 3-3 in his first appearance yesterday including knocking the first pitch he saw from Roy Halladay to the opposite side and out was a great sign.

Game 3 of this mini-series starts in about 15 minutes with Michael Pineda making his first appearance in pinstripes and you know where I'm going to be.

Braun got booed by Giants' fans yesterday who chanted "cheater" at him which is pretty ironic as they were the only fans not getting on Bonds. As long as it's your guy, it's okay.

Manny is taking Cespedes under his wing for the A's, which Billy Beane said was part of the plan. But in other plans for the Oakland team, it appears as if the rights maintained by those aforementioned Giants to San Jose are going to be upheld. This is bad, bad news for the Athletics. Re-signing Beane and jettisoning many of their best players this off-season all seemed to be in preparation for a new stadium and a new city in 2014. But now, with that seemingly not in the cards, the dreaded contraction word has come up around the fallen-on-hard-times Swingin' A's. Seems like a noose may be in their future should this come to pass.

Harold & Kumar's 3D xmas movie suffers in 2D.

I finally wrote up a short synopsis of my romantic dramedy, "Caving" for the lit-manager. I'm saying it's based on a real phenomena as well as a true story (my own which apparently became a little more true this past weekend) but if 50+ degree temperatures are to become the norm in the upper mid-west during winter, it may be more fantasy than reality.

Oh, and before some of the short stories from "Rose" are published and animated in the Jerusalem Post, it looks like they're going to go with the old "Turtle Story" prior to that. Pretty psyched to see my friend Meital's art to accompany that piece and the paycheck could lead to some more art for me ie the 2nd elephant tattoo on my left arm.

Okay, time to turn my attentions to Florida and Yanks v. Phillies.

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