Events

Cubs just got swept. Predictable. And sad. Guess I'll just work tomorrow, or wander Lakeview aimlessly with Parker. Plus, Danielle has to return the Game 4 tickets, so I won't even get a souvenir of the post-season. Next year, I suppose. For the 100th time. Sheesh.

Yesterday I said that the Cubs need only win one game of the NLDS to ensure they play Game 4 (to which my friend got tickets). That's not, strictly speaking, correct, and it assumed the only way the series would end in 3 games would be if the Diamondbacks swept the Cubs. My cousin pointed out the flaw in my reasoning. It's possible (however unlikely) that the Cubs could sweep the Diamondbacks, with the same result for Sunday's game. So, to revise and amend my comments, as long as each team wins at least...

My friend Danielle scored tickets to the National League Central Division Series Game #4, at Wrigley Field this Sunday. Of course, since it's a best-of-5 series, if the Cubs get swept, there won't be a Game #4. But if they win just one game in the post-season, we're going on Sunday.

I may be getting NLDS playoff tickets...stay tuned...

With two games to go in the season, the Cubs clinched the National League Central. Now they only have to get past three markedly better teams to get to the World Series...

"Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms.... But a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot."—Robert Heinlein, Friday. Happy primary election season!

Poor guy. I got two bits of bad news for Parker. First, his bad butt has returned again, this time with bad, um, mouth as well. His vet suspects Crypto again, plus whatever else he may have picked up from his foraging in the yard. This time she was pretty direct in her prescription: No unsupervised, off-leash time at all, ever. So Parker will have to have walks with just me instead of going to the park or day camp for a couple of weeks. It also means that I won't just open the back door for him first...

For the first time in eight months, my dog has no odor. None. It turns out Petsmart has hypo-allergenic shampoo. (Last time they used stinky shampoo.) That is all. Photo to follow.

Chicago Tribune notice: Nancy Aishton, 61, native of Janesville, Wis., lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, passed away Sept. 14 at her home in Evanston, Ill., of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Nancy is survived by her son David Braverman of Evanston; her mother Joan D. Aishton of Evanston (but native of Janesville); her two brothers and their families, Peter and Mary Ellen Aishton of Des Plaines, Ill., and John and Barbara Naland of Alexandria, Va.; and her uncle and aunt, Alan and Betty Dunwiddie of Janesville...

Marcel Marceau died yesterday. So did the St. Louis Cardinals, who were mathematically eliminated from the post-season.