Baseball geek...

To celebrate the nation's birthday, I'm watching baseball and cleaning my toilet. Life, so grand. The baseball game's worth it, though. Orioles at Yankees, it's a good game but the pitchers are all having a off day or something. Bruce Chen started for Baltimore and let 6 go by, and Tanyon Sturtz started for the Yankees because of the Pavano's injury, and he's so much more reliable in the bullpen than as a starter. His arm just started to go and he ended up walking the bases full and forcing Sosa home by a walk. I feel bad in a way, I've missed a lot of games this season, but I'm sure my boys will pull up soon. They're in third, but only behind by 5 games.

It's 4-6 Yankees in the 4th, and there's a been a spectacular display of the one of the few things that irritates me about the game (besides celebrity cameos in the stands getting more air time than the players) and that's intentional or unintentional hitting, and it all gets blown way crazy. The home ump warned both teams after Sturtz accidentally hit someone, and then Gary Sheffield got hit on the hand by Baltimore. Both managers were "discussing" it with the ump, and now it seems like they've all been warned...and the pitchers can't mess with inside pitches too much. They're grown men, it bugs me when it looks like retaliation... my brother's old t-ball games were like that. 42 kids in the outfield and scuffles over the ball all the time.

Ok, ok...I'll shut up about the game. But I'd rather talk about that than the bleach fumes emanating from my toilet in the bathroom.