I know! American Youth Soccer Organization!

I thought Baltimore was doing a lot better at the end of last season?...or something...Signed, Knows NOTHING About Baseball but has a Lot of Civic Pride. Plus I went to one game and they won. And it was fun.

Go Baltimore! Their biggest problem is that they're in the AL East with three powerhouses in the Yankees and Red Sox and the Rays, plus Toronto is also very good. The Yankees and Red Sox have the two biggest payrolls in baseball and over the last two seasons have snapped up all the biggest names in free agents. And the Rays were bad for so long that they stockpiled a huge number of high draft picks which have paid off for them. They're loaded with young talent. Whereas B'more's top prospects like Matt Wieters and Adam Jones and Brian Matusz have not quite panned out. (Though I think Wieters and Matusz will be all-stars in a couple years.)

I went to an Orioles game once. Courtesy of msbelle. It was fun. Same game as lisah. But like lisah (and maybe even less lisah), my enthusiasm is relegated to hometownism. And lack of trafficism-where-I-need-to-be.

We have been so lucky here. Self-pay has become more mainstream. We no longer get "whuts'at?" looks. In fact, what we usually get at the practice, the lab, the clinic, and the dentist is, "You're self-pay? We'll be glad to bill you. Or if you pay the full amount today we'll give you a 40% discount." Considering that when we had insurance the deductible was so high we wound up paying in full for visits and most treatments anyway, I'll take the 40% discount, and happily.

I went to an Orioles game once. Got invited to a super fun wedding in Baltimore, and we stayed a couple days after to eat crab cakes and such, including catching a game at Camden Yard. Orioles vs. Mariners - I don't remember who won but I got to see Cal Ripken Jr. play.

Oh Jon Stewart, no matter how badly you want January Jones to be an interesting interview, it's just not going to happen.

Perkins gets it in one!

Grace has a fever and just puked all over her bed. She had a fever and her pulse was super high (which is usually the sign of something wrong... pulse oximeter at home = yay?)Awesome. And Noah? Dentist tomorrow. We are fun.

Funnest mom ever!

Hey, would Noah be traumatised if you took a picture of him in a tub of cranberries? Not that I want to. Just that I figure he would not care or be over it in a day or maybe even think it was stupid fun.

Perkins gets it in one!

My parents used to make us play on AYSO teams.

OMG, WTF Good Wife? I am SO NOT A FAN of Kalinda and Blake and writing it like it's sexy. GROSS. (ETA: Well, at least it turned out OK)

I liked the rest of the ep, though.