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Holy shit. I have been linked at Sam's fabulous blog Blue Cats and Red Sox.

I HAVE BROKEN INTO THE BLOGGING UNIVERSE. NOW I WILL BE WIDELY READ AND FAMOUS.

. . . yeah, not really. But it's still cool, so to celebrate, I have finally written an actual bio for my user profile. It's all about me and my teams and how I came to love them. So, if you can't get enough of exhaustive essays on How I Became a Sox Fan, or if you've ever wondered in passing how the hell a chick from Maine came to root for teams from Detroit and Houston, go check it out.

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I love being signed up for the official newsletters from my teams.

Today astros.com sent out an e-mail entitled "Come Play - Perrmission To Skip Work Wednesday." Usually I delete these e-mails, since not being able to attend Tigers or Astros games when the tickets are so affordable totally sucks, so I don't need to hear about deals and such. But this one got me curious, so I opened it.

( And found this. Cut to save your friends list. )

BWAHAHA. Oh, man. If I had a printer, and, you know, lived anywhere near Houston, I would totally try that just to see the look on my manager's face.

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BONDO GOT A COMPLETE GAME. He was amazing and threw a ton of strikes and only gave up two runs neither of which were homers and he didn't load the bases once or anything! It was so awesome. <3

Meanwhile, the offense was tearing it up. I'm so crazy over Bondo's dominance right now that I can't remember anything else that happened, but I'm pretty sure that at one point, Dmitri got a two-run homer. ESPN.com ought to have the recap up soon and then I can refresh my memory.

There was similar awesomeness from the Red Sox. Papi got two homers, and Manny got one just for fun, and Bronson only gave up four hits. Ooh, and Tek got his eight hundredth career hit! Yay! John Halama scared us all for a while when he decided to load the bases, but he got out of that with only the one run given up, so I guess we don't need to tie up him and hide him in the closet next to Embree. The Red Sox won it 9-2. Only one more game and I can stop looking at that disturbing Indians logo till next week, when they bring Aaron Boone to town to be tarred and feathered. I mean, when they come to play at Fenway.

Okay, ESPN has come through. Bondo only gave up five hits and two walks and he got nine Ks. And, yep, the Tigers were pretty much hitting all over the place, and I was right about Dmitri's homer. =D

They are now a game OVER .500, for I think the first time this year. I wouldn't know, because I can't remember, and because I was stuck with the Twins feed, and the announcers were too busy mispronouncing Nook's name to give me any useful information. By the way: That's Nook as in book, hook, look, not fluke, nuke, or spook, okay?

The Astros squeaked out a win against the Rockies, 6-5. They would've done better, but it looks like Wandy imploded after five innings and gave up four runs. Amazingly, Phil Garner interpreted this as a sign to pull him out.

Oh, wait, just kidding, I'm doing a little informative reading, and apparently the problem was not Wandy so much as it was Jason Lane pulling a Manny, forgetting how many outs there were, and chucking the ball into the stands. *headdesk* That only let the one run in following a sac fly, but I'm guessing it probably didn't help Wandy's state of mind too much; he gave up a two-run homer and then got pulled.

Heh, and the next two Astros run came on two Rockies each making an error on the same play. Looks like it was a pretty stupid night at Minute Maid Park. I'm almost sorry I missed it. Okay, not really, but only because I got to watch Bondo's CG instead.

Speaking of stupid nights, hi, Devil Rays! How the fuck did you go from being up 10-2 to LOSING 20-11?! NO, that is NOT a typo. The Yankees got THIRTEEN RUNS in the EIGHTH INNING. Wooooooow. I was planning on musing over how the Devil Rays appear to own Randy Johnson (he gave up five runs in the first three innings and got pulled), but - dude. Thirteen runs in the eighth inning. That's kind of hilarious. (Yeah, welcome to my sense of humor.) Ranking on Randy Johnson would be kind of pointless now.

So, good games for everyone. Except Jason Lane.