Holy crap! I just read the news about the Red Sox. I can't believe that. Down three games to nothing and they win the next two games in extra innings to give themselves a bit of hope at 2-3. Then they win the last two games to beat the Yankees for the right to play in the World Series. Now that's a comeback!
Not only that but the Astros and Cardinals are now headed to game seven.
I only have one question...Why am I missing this?!!!

Speaking of baseball, here's a thought....why the hell would you give your son a name that sounds like a breakfast cereal for kids? There is guy, I kid you not, that plays for the Cleveland Indians named Coco Crisp. It's true. Look it up yourself.

And on another sports note....I am getting a football game right now pitting the Bills of Buffalo, New York against the Jets from New York City. Just started. I think this game is about a week and a half old, I'm not sure of this though, but I don't care as due to my skill in avoiding the news I can watch it as if it was live.
Tomorrow I get a game from this last weekend but I have no idea who it will feature. Hope it's a Cowboy game.

And that's your sports wrapup. Now to the weather......

Last night's typhoon was a wet one. I should tell you, though, that I was a bit confused about the numbers when I wrote yesterday. It was, indeed, the 23rd typhoon of the season but it was only the 10th to hit Japan. I shouldn't say 'only' as it is still a record for typhoon hits in one year, but it's not close to the 23 that I had thought it was. My confusion stems from the Japanese practice of numbering typhoons instead of naming them. Even if a typhoon doesn't hit Japan it still gets a number.
Amy and I were told that they don't name their typhoons like we do our hurricanes. One of Amy's teachers told her, "We don't like to get so friendly with our storms." HA!
Strange thing, though, is that I have been hearing that this typhoon did indeed have a name. It was called "Lizard" or the Japanese word for it, "Tokage". So I am not sure of this whole naming storms thing. I should ask somebody.
Anyway, last night was a little crazy. Not too much so, though.
It had rained all day and by about six or seven last night was absolutely pouring. There is a small channel behind my apartment and it was rabid with water. Normally the thing has a small trickle of water and when it rains for any amount of time tends to get up to about the level of a small stream. But last night the thing was gushing; so much so that the water was raging down the channel and overflowing into the parking lot. Many of my neighbors took it upon themselves to go out there and move their cars to higher ground. The thing was moving dirt around and this morning I found that the rear tire of my bike was slightly buried in about 2 or 3 inches of mud.
A few of us gathered over at Dilek's place (same building, other side) and about every 5 to 10 minutes we'd stop talking to listen to the public announcements which seemed nearly constant from about 730 to about 1100. Apparently, two people went missing over in Zenkoji which is right next to my area of Tokoji. Not sure what happened. But there were announcements, sirens, thunder....it was very noisy.
Also, some of the people in this building went to some shelter to wait out the storm. I have to admit that I don't think it was that bad, here in Kofu, but perhaps if I lived on a lower floor I might have been more nervous; especially if I had kids like many of them do. I simply stayed on the fourth floor (Dilek also lives on the top floor) and had a few beers and some conversation. There was no wind so my thinking was that unless a mud slide came down the hill, we'd be fine.
But it was a very large storm for other areas of the country. According to CNN.com 57 were killed and 32 others are still missing. I saw a little bit of footage on a Japanese channel and even a bit on CNN and it looked quite brezzy down near Osaka. People were being pushed by the wind while trying to walk and waves were pounding the ships and docks. Looked like a mess. This was a big one.
But, we here in Central Yamanashi, except for those two in Zenkoji if they were never found, came through it all alright. And today there is only a slight breeze and a lot of wet ground to show for typhoon 23 or 10 or Lizard or whatever the hell they are calling it.

At the risk of sounding like a lazy bum I should tell you that Tuesday I was home by 2pm due to that just being the way Tuesdays go no matter which of the two Tuesday schools I go to, yesterday, like I mentioned in yesterday's entry, I was home by noon due to school being let out early for the storm, and today I was home by 11am due to the students and teachers at the academy preparing for this weekend's school festival and there being no classes at all. I went out there this morning at my normal time and Ito-sensei looked a bit surprised to see me and then apologized for not informing me of the day's agenda. Of course, I was not upset and simply walked back to the station and caught the nex train back to Kofu. I should have gone to the kencho but I didn't want to. So I came home. And good thing as there's a game on.
I imagine tomorrow I will have all four classes that I normally have at my Friday school but one thing I've learned about my job is Japan is that you never know.

Ok, back to my research on which defense works best against Chad Pennington and Curtis Martin.