Anyone catch Conan O’Brien hosting the Emmy’s last night? Finally, someone worthy of their salt. The entire opening bit with the Osbornes was very amusing, but the next bit when he was trying to hook up with Jennifer Aniston, but ended up riding a white horse on the beach with Garry Shandling was hysterical. Another bright spot was him brandishing a guitar, threatening to sing the Jethro Tull song “Aqualung” if winners started taking too long with their acceptance speech. He actually made the Emmy’s interesting again….I hope they make him a regular. And the fact that they’ve put his show on Comedy Central is a stroke of genius. You can now catch “last night’s episode” the following day at a reasonable time. I’ve been watching it quite a bit and I miss being able to stay up to see it. Here’s a good story for you: I was actually ON the Conan O’Brien show one night, back in 1996. They superimposed Shaquille O’Neal’s face over mine in the crowd. Of course, being the narcissistic pig I am, I leaned over to make sure I got my face on TV. Good times……
Today is the first day of my favorite season, autumn. Perfect temperatures (70), beautiful scenery (New England) and hell yeah, the baseball playoffs. But the weather is the part I like the best. You can leave the window open a crack when you sleep and it’s just divine. I really should live in San Francisco – 70 all year long.
Finally, I’m still playing the hell out of my High Heat baseball game. I completed one season already as the Los Angeles Dodgers, where I finished 86-76, 6 games out of the wild card. For my current season, I switched to the Minnesota Twins and moved my home stadium to the Polo Grounds because I don’t want to play on turf. Well, I’m off to a totally weak 32-39 start, fourth in the division, but only 3 games out of first place, which shows you how weak the division is. Sheesh am I a nerd or what? 31 years old and still playing baseball on my PC. Geezus.