Tillinghast Defeat

Our golf club runs a Ryder Cup format tournament - 10 team, 8 players per team by random draw. We play a nine-hole scramble, a nine-hole best ball, a nine-hole alternate shot, and a nine-hole singles match over two days.

Although I drove the ball quite well, I went 0-3 in the first three matches, not matching up well with my partners for one reason or another. Our team, Team Japan, didn't fare much better. Going into the last round, we were tied for last. However, we fared well in the singles contest. I won 2-up. My opponent conceded the final hole with him lying four in the rough and I was on the green in regulation. Our team won 5 and lost 3 singles matches. As a result, we scratched back to 5th or 6th place, so it wasn't completely embarassing.

Can't say the same of the Mets who have now gone home for the Winter. Sorry Chris.

Sox Win!

Finally, after 12 years of enduring the Yankees taking the AL East crown, the Red Sox finally take the division title. The fact that it came on a blown save by Mariano Rivera made it all that more sweet. Amazingly, we held first place since APRIL 18th. It was an interesting season to be in New York. On one hand, you didn't want to gloat about being in first (even 14 games ahead), because you knew a $200mm payroll was unlikely to play sub .500 ball for long. However, on the other hand, you were constantly in fear that taking the division was not going to come easily. The only thing that took the pressure off the Sox fans in New York was the fact that the baseball focus in New York wasn't on Red Sox/Yankees, but rather the collapsing Mets.

I found it pretty cool that the team celebration occurred on the field at Fenway - long after the game was over. Apparently, they played the NYY/BAL game on the jumbotron and close to 2,000 fans stuck around to watch (even though the Orioles were down 9-6).

Now, we just need a little help from the Royals to beat Cleveland. Keeping the best record in baseball would be a good thing. However, let's not lose sight of the fact that we have to beat the Angels first!

Go Sox!

The Beginnings

In the beginning there was a blank page. Is there anything worse than a blank page?

So you may ask, what's with the blog's name? It's a tribute to the movie Caddyshack, and the famous Bill Murray soliloquy:

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.