early hibernation (final entry of the season)

ok, the angels lost.  again.  is the world happy now?  they were right, they couldn't get past the red sox.  again.  it's taken me a couple days to cope with monday night's heart-wrenching loss, but here I am- no longer rooting for a playoff team, no longer the featured blogger on mlblogs, ughhhh the bane of my existence.....

this will likely be my last post for a while whilst i move on to the pending nba season.  (as far as the rest of the playoffs go, i think dodgers will face tampa bay, and if that's the case i hope tampa bay wins.  if it's dodgers/sox, i hope the dodgers win.  either way, i think the dodgers will get past the phillies).

here's my goodbye to a championship-less, yet, still amazing season:

ode to my  2008 angels: (warning, i am NOT a poet, nor do I know anything about poetry)
springtime in california, how i miss your glorious rays,
warm days, crisp night's, requiring my red jacket at the big A.
on a losing night,
torii's inner fight,
walked off the grandest slam i'd seen in all my days.
fighting with the blue's, (the umps and dodgers too),
seeing the couple in the row before me make their decisions to say "I do."
not off to the best start, but good enough to still be best
becoming the nation's winningest team, and another title- AL West!
watching the red sox fans whine, as we take 8 out of 9
then succumbing again to playoff pressures,
though to snap the cursed streak.
we lived to see another great season
end early
so then,
we'll warm up again in spring 2009
and continue in the fight
to be baseball's most proven team-
for an angels Red October
I will continue to dream.

Goodbye MLBlogs for now.  If you'd like to keep up with me until next Spring, you can find me on blogspot here.