The ancient art of losing

And there I was thinking that America only celebrates winners. Last weekend the Phillies (the Philadelphia baseball team) lost their 10,000th game. No, it's not a typo, ten thousand! Amazing as this is to Americans it's even harder to comprehend for non Americans. Major League Baseball teams in the US play over 160 games a year. That means they play pretty much every other day. Still, if you played 160 games a year and lost them all you would be playing for 62 years. Fortunately for the Phillies they've been around since 1883 (Phillies) so they actually had enough time win a couple of games every year too. Mind you, the average is not great. So far they've won only 8,810 games versus that magical 10,000.

And here comes the weird part. The fans have been loving it. Everybody wanted to be there at the historic game so the last couple of games have been completely sold out. We went last Friday for the first of 3 home games against the St Louis cardinals. They won that one 13-4 and managed to win on Saturday as well. Sunday, however, was the historic day that everyone had been waiting for. Here's some of the signs that fans were holding up.


Finally a little update about the feline situation. Friday has take several deep breaths and calmed down a little since Denny came in. They haven't really had a chance to introduce them selves since Denny is now in quarantine. After sneezing for 3 days we decided a trip to the vet was in order to make sure it was nothing but a cold. It turns out it's an infection and we have to keep the two apart for a little bit. Not a big problem as far as Friday is concerned but Denny definitely wants to go exploring by now.