Now For What Truly Matters: Family and Football

Well, as of end of day today I am letting the markets sort themselves out without my participation. I will be enjoying some quality family time with the lovely Mrs. Baseball and my three precious Baseball munchkins on the lakes, beaches, and golf courses of the great southeastern United States. I happily leave behind thoughts of Ben Bernanke and subprime mortgages to focus on waterskiing, Kadima, daily cocktail hour, and pandalus borealis on the barbie. This will make the last week or two before football season go that much faster. Indeed the pigskin is almost upon us. In the Baseball household there are only two football teams that matter - the New York Giants and the Oklahoma Sooners (although, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights bandwagon has made a stop at our household and we have signed on for a quick joyride). Expectations are not high for either of our squads, which is just how we like it since neither program has dealt well recently with high expectations. The big key for the G-Men is, of course, 1) not having the defensive personnel break bones like a bunch of matchsticks and 2) getting Brandon Jacobs into a somewhat viable replacement for Tiki Barber. If the running game is not well established, Eli will get pounded and launch footballs with the accuracy of Hezbollah's Kassam rockets. For the Sooners, the big unknown is how a red-shirt freshman will handle not just opposing Big 12 defenses, but a big, national spotlight game in week two (versus the 'Canes in Norman).

See all 20 of you in September. May you labor only in leisure this Labor Day!