Everybody knows the MLB playoff schedule this year was laid out by a drunken man on a merry-go-round. Long layoffs, inexplicable breaks during series, 10:00 PM start times for significant games, Tim McCarver doing color commentary. No excuse, man. None.
I will, however, give mad props to the drunken man and give him another spin on his merry-go-round for planning the two off days between Sunday’s Game 7 and Wednesday’s Game 1. I needed the sleep. I wasn’t sure I could make it through another series of 1 AM bedtimes after dumping truly heroic quantities of alcohol down my cake-hole.
So here I am, only down 21 hours of sleep in the past twelve days. Raging, raring to go. 8 o’clock can’t come fast enough. Please God, let the world hold itself together at least until next Thursday. Because I am unavailable until then.