LOST and weird and frustrating and sad...

Remember 2004? It was a big year.

LOST premiered, Friends ended.

Britney Spears got married, got divorced, and then got married again.

The Red Sox won the World Series after 86 years of whining waiting.

And, of course, Fox hunting was finally outlawed in the UK.

2004 was also the last time the White Sox swept the Twins. Until Sunday. The losses on their own were ugly -- and at home, ouch -- but it was more than that... a bigger loss than just a series sweep. The nail in the 2011 season, I suspect.

All of that momentum from June seems a thing of the past and the things that were going so well, most notably the back to back to back dominance from the starting five-- well, no longer going so well, at all. Blackburn is doing that thing again when he looks like he's simply forgotten that he is a major league baseball player -- like really he's an art history from Fresno named Stephen with a ph who Quantum Leaped into Blackburn's body in the third inning and has no idea that there is a difference between a sinker and a slider.

It's not just Blackburn, they are all sucking in their own special ways, but he just has nothing. He looks lost and it's weird and frustrating and sad. I think someone really should check to see if there is an art history teacher in Fresno who suddenly has no idea that there is a difference between Edward and Dennis Hopper. Maybe we can still fix this.

Ciao, buddies.
-christine