Let's Play Catch-Up

Welcome back to the blogosphere. Time for a few random items, none of which are necessarily related...except that they all happened to or were observed by me.

The Boston Red Sox are a pretty good baseball team...just off the front of the AL East...but the Los Angeles Dodgers and St Louis Cardinals are the class of baseball, second to none.

The NL West is so bad, they ought to do what they do in English Premier League Soccer: relegation for most of the division.

Spent Saturday in California's Shenadoah Valley, home of some of the best wineries in California. In case you're not a geography major, it's east and slightly south of Sacramento in the Sierra Foothills. Google map Plymouth or Amador...and, in spite of the rain and my lack of participation in wine tasting, it would be hard to find a more beautiful place in Northern California. Outside of my beloved Napa Valley, of course.

A day at the wineries and associated eateries, including a white wine release party at the stunningly beautiful Villa Toscano winery, shot my diet straight to hell...for one day. No damage done; as of Monday morning your delightful host (me) is ten pounds less a man than he was just 21 days ago.

Firebird owners are a fun bunch. My broadcasting buddy Mark Demsky and I spent part of Sunday afternoon with them at Marc Freire's Rocklin Automotive for a live radio broadcast and Firebird car show. Good group, and in high spirits in spite of the rain.

Speaking of: can any of our highly regarded Sacramento area weather guessers get a forecast at least close to right? Three-plus days of rain...we need it, but at least give us a little bit better idea when it's going to end. SHEESH!

Kyle Busch is good. His race teams are good. This kid, at 24, is going to put up Jeff Gordon-like numbers in NASCAR when the story's done. If someone doesn't beat the crap out of him first.

Hugh Laurie is the best actor on television. Debate it.

There are no middle feelings about the Fox series "Fringe." Everyone I know either absolutely loves it, and won't miss an episode...or just can't stand it.

MSNBC is on the "left." Fox News is on the "right." Where is CNN?

If a man likes "General Hospital," does that make him -- dare I ask -- bored with his life?

Jus' axin...