Hoo boy, we have a problem

So I'm feeling better now, and am starting to get excited over the Tribe's first playoff series since 2001. Here's a weird fact - the Browns made the playoffs more recently than the Indians. Wow.

Anyway, we may have a problem here. The way things are heading, we coul dbe in line for the best record in the AL. If so, we would play New York - the probable wild card. That's good and bad news.

The good news - if we play NY - is that the game times would be set. There's no way that the Yanks would NOT be on prime time. So - let's say we have a choice - Wed's and Thu's games would be at 8 pm; an off day Friday, then game 3 would be Sat night in New York, starting around 8 pm.

Saturday night...........October 6......uh oh, Janice's birthday. Janice is taking a trip to France that week and will be back Friday - and we already have plans for dinner that Saturday.

Hmmmmmmmm----- does BW-3 take reservations for a quiet, romantic table near a TV for that night?

I remember doing this in the past - I believe it was 1999, and we had playhouse tickets; I taped the game but couldn't stand the suspense so I caught an update in the car - and was not pleased with the results.

We're going to have to do some creative planning to accomodate this scenario. Stay tuned.

(Am I scared of the Yanks? Well, yes and no. That 0-6 record concerns me, but only one of those games was against CC or Carmona. So we will win our share.......but the sight of Joe Borowski (who, by the way, blew a save last night) vs. the Yanks with a lead in the 9th does concern me a bit. Might want to have a bottle of SoCo handy for that.)

Yes, I'd rather have Boston than New York for the first series, but we'll have to go through the Yanks at some point.....and maybe the law of averages will kick in and we will win 3 straight vs. the Yanks.

I bitched and moaned at Derek preceding last week's Browns' game that "no one wants us to win". No one in the media wanted the Browns to win to be 2-1. It would be too much of a soul-search for those so-called experts to accept that. Derek said I was making stuff up and reading waaaaay too much into some comments, and he was probably right.

But - who the hell does 99% of the media want to see in the ALCS? My God, everyone would want NY-Boston III in the 2007 ALCS. No one will want to see the Tribe (or, for that matter, the Angels) win a series. No one. It's us against the world here.