Major League Baseball played all but one of its 2,430 regularly scheduled games this season — the Pirates and Cubs were rained out just this last Thursday night.
Today, the last day of the season, five of the 15 games went into extra innings. It’s as if they didn’t want it to be over.
The Tigers face the Twins Tuesday in what they call the play-in game.
For want of a better place I’ll post this here.
This year the New Mexico Quilters Association balloon fiesta raffle quilt was designed by Norma Jean Koelm, the same woman who won best in show at the State Fair this year. The raffle quilt was made by members of the quilt association including my wife.
Every year a quilt is made by the association and raffled to benefit the quilt association.
If you go to the fiesta stop by the Association’s booth and take a look at the quilt and maybe buy a chance on it. They’re only $2.00. It’s a beautiful quilt. You can see a picture of the quilt in Oct. 3rd’s Journal Balloon Fiesta section.
Mary made the largest balloon in the upper left quadrant of the quilt. It was made by piecing together what seemed like 100 tiny pieces of cloth. FYI all the balloons shown are images of actual balloons and individual permission was obtained from the balloons’ owner.
Ahem, back on topic….
To me, it was a bittersweet end to the season. Then again, the end of baseball for another year is always bittersweet.
My Giants are out of the race, but had a great season.
I now jump ships and become a Colorado Rockies fan for the duration, or until they are knocked out of the race. Go Rockies!
Says the lowly Cubs fan, “Crap, guess we gotta go through this again next year.”