A Collection of Thoughts.
Well. I purchased my first home on Friday. A nice two bedroom townhouse in North Tampa. Man, do I feel overwhelmed though, now that I’ve spent a couple days wandering around the place. I’m looking at what needs to be done, what needs to be fixed, where I need to paint (uhh… EVERYWHERE, almost?). I’m just realizing how big of a job I have ahead of me. I really have no motivation to do it, and that’s my problem so far, lol. I should just take the next month off of work (wouldn’t that be nice) and start taking care of everything.
I noticed that one of the toilets doesn’t work (the stopper when the toilet is refilling isn’t cutting off the water flow when it should be.)… and that I have a ceiling fan in the living room that is running for the foreseeable future until I get a step ladder so I can actually stop it…
Walking through the community on Sunday, however, I’m definitely very happy with my purchase, though. It’s very nice! I think I’ll get along well with my community, but we’ll see 
I’ll need to socialize! *gasp* I spent some time around the community pool with my cousin, he was my first “guest” to the house, even though it’s still empty. Hanging around the pool was great.
My trip to Canada and Massachusetts was absolutely awesome, and relaxing. Canada was so much fun, and so beautiful (I really do love Magog, just a small quaint town that’s still large enough for my tastes). My time in Massachusetts was basically read my books all morning, then go out during the afternoon/night. It was definitely relaxing, and much needed, especially since as soon as I got back into Florida it was running around while I closed on the condo and went to work. All over the damn place!
I really did have to go Cold Turkey when it came to technology while I was up in Canada. There was no way I wanted to accrue international charges. At first I was going to turn off my phone for the entire 3 days. But then turned my phone onto Airplane mode so I could at least play with the games on it, lol…
Of course, the running around is only getting worse as I realize everything that I have before me. I still have to make sure multiple places have my new address, not to mention some of those places I don’t even think have my new phone number (changed that like a month ago)… My old job in MA never contacted me back about my 401k, which is annoying, so I’m not too sure what to do there. But I guess it’s something I don’t need to fidget with right away.
I’m very relieved to finally have this blog back up and running, and I don’t believe any of the styling is out of place anymore. We’ll see how it goes. I HAVE noticed that the images from the previous blog posts are missing, so I know I need to figure out how I want to upload those again to make sure everything is back to normal.
So… How about them Red Sox? I am absolutely appalled by the sudden disastrous loss to the Yankees (we were SWEPT in a 4 game series???? WTF!)… What went wrong? What is Francona doing to remedy the situation? We need a turn around, and SOON. I could not believe the Sox went from 8-0 vs the Yankees this year, to 8-4, so quickly… JEEZ.
Guess that’s all I have in my mind for now.
Learning Something New: Boxscores
Well, the first half of my morning has been a learning experience for me. A little frustrating at that.
I actually kept reading about the Red Sox’s horrible loss versus the Orioles on Tuesday (June 30th), where they ended up losing 11-10, after having a 9 run lead (worse comeback against the Red Sox in 20 years). John Papelbon was credited with his second blown save of the season, and I didn’t quite understand why Papelbon was given the blown save.
At first I was confused simply because I was being blind to the fact that they didn’t play in the bottom of the 9th, but I was wondering why Papelbon was credited with the blown save when he didn’t even allow a run in the 9th (again, before I realized they didn’t play the bottom of 9th)… So I jumped to look at the Boxscore. Once I realize that Papelbon WAS involved in the 8th inning (when Sox gave up another 5 runs that gave Orioles the lead), I was still a bit confused.
If we’re looking at Papelbon’s line, it simply shows that he gave up 1 hit, 1 walk, and dealt 1 strikeout. Now, in my mind, reading Papelbon’s line of statistics, and ignoring the rest, I see that Papelbon didn’t give up any runs or any home runs. So I was really quite confused as to how he “blew” the save. So I consulted my coworker.
Of course (for the veteran boxscore reader), it is revealed that Takashi Saito allowed 1 player on base, and Hideki Okajima already had a player on base when he was pulled, and it was John Papelbon’s allowed hit that got those two runners to score, I now understood why Papelbon got the blown save. But again, I looked at the statistics.
I understand (now) where Baseball statistics were going by accrediting Takashi and Hideki with the runs that were accumulated by the runners that THEY put on base. I was under the impression that because Papelbon was the reason they scored (by giving up that 2 RBI double) that the Runs would show up in Papelbon’s stats. I failed to realize that baseball keeps track of what pitcher allowed what player on the bases, and tracks each of them as the responsibility of that pitcher, regardless of how many new pitchers enter the game after them. Knowing that, I can finally understand the statistics, and we can move on.
Upon a second look after the hour long discussion ended, I realized that the ERA actually reveals that Papelbon gave up the runs. I failed to look at the ERA initially, which might’ve been able to help my understanding prior to consulting my coworker.
All the same, glad I finally understand the Boxscore Statistics a bit better
I’m starting to think I should do a post like this more frequently… showing something new I learned recently. Sure this one made me seem like a bit of an idiot (what doesn’t, right?), but it’s a decent idea.