BASEBALL
The Tigers can clinch the Central Division with a win tonight. How great would that be?! Then they’d start the playoffs on Tuesday at home, with Oakland coming in. Anybody wanna donate to the “Get Tony Playoff Tickets” Fund?

I’ve ranted about Neifi Perez, the infielder that the Tigers picked up when Placido Polanco got hurt. Well, thankfully, Polanco is back. This hilarious quote was pointed out to me by Kradical, because he’s a great baseball guy and has heard me complain about Perez:

“[Placido] Polanco’s comment–‘I feel good enough to help the team’–betrays a becoming modesty, but let’s face it, a gouty koala would probably be an improvement over Neifi Perez.”
—Christina Kahrl, BaseballProspectus.com, 29 September 2006

I read that and actually spit coffee out of my mouth onto my desk. It was embarassing, since I was at work, but I laughed for 10 minutes. A gouty koala, that’s good stuff! And the best part is, she’s RIGHT!! Thanks Kradical for pointing this out!

THEATRE
As I posted, Opening Night went well. Now it’s time to work on building audiences for this show, and focusing on the next couple. I’ll be working on a couple in a row – the Christmas spoof Every Christmas Story Ever Told!!, which opens the Friday after Thanksgiving, as well as doing prep work for Fully Committed at Williamston Theatre, and I’ll be taking a couple of trips to Buffalo, to prepare for the show I’m directing at Studio Arena Theatre, The Mystery of Irma Vep. (Irma Vep, incidentally, is Vampire, anagrammatized!)

I’ll post reviews for Rounding Third as they come out this week.

KIDS (warning: bodily fluid graphicness ahead)
The kids are great. Maggie, however, was sick this week – she came home feeling really yucky on Wednesday afternoon, and spent the next 12 hours hurling her guts out every 45 minutes. Poor kid. She’s fine now. However, I did have one absolutely hilarious moment with her during this ordeal:

At about 2am, we were camped out in the hallway near the bathroom, (she loves to lay in her sleeping bag in the hallway by the bathroom when she’s not feeling well). After making her hourly trip to empty her stomach, she rinsed her mouth out and wiped her face, and came to lay back down.

As she crawled into her sleeping bag she said, in a very sleepy little-girl voice, “Dad? You know what I learned at school? When frogs throw up, their whole stomachs turn inside out and come right out of their mouths! I think that’s SO COOL!!”

Then she snuggled up on her pillow and went to sleep.

I laughed for about 10 minutes. How funny that, in the middle of throwing up, she’s thinking about how frogs throw up. AND she thinks it’s “SO COOL!!” What a kid!

THEATRE PART II
This is really funny. The setting: Performance Network theatre in Ann Arbor. They’re getting a bunch of publicity because an actor took a costume to be dry-cleaned, and left a prop in the pocket. The prop was a note, from another character to his character. The note said, basically, “I know you committed the murder. I have no choice but to kill myself. Love, your wife Alice.”

When the drycleaner found the note, they called the police. Hilarity ensued! Read the article here! I spoke with some folks at the Network about it, and they said “Whoops. But, also…YAY! Free publicity!” *laughing*