The Talking Heads

Everyone sit down before you read this next line, we don't want anyone to collapse. The Boston Bandits have won 7 of their last 9 games. I know, I know. It's utterly stunning. Last week I wrote about the Alex Williams and we tore it up there after. But this week, I'm going to tempt superstition and write about our beloved Bandits. If we end up losing a bunch of games, you can bet that the rest of the season I'll be writing about the Shannon Young/Pierre LaVillenuve affair that may or may not be happening, Neil O'Rourke's vengeful pitching this season, silly little Japanese pitchers taking steroids and how reheated pizza and milk may be the greatest breakfast ever. My faithful readers are now hoping for an 0-15 run before the Allstar break so they can read about those riveting topics.

Do you remember that old Talking Heads song? The one where it says you may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife? And you may ask yourself how did you get here? Well, that's kind of the collective questioning in Boston right now. Sure it's been against Elmira, New York and Buffalo, but we are still Boston. Plus all three teams have had guys get caught on 'roids, so whose to say that everybody on all those teams aren't juicing up? Pretty damn impressive if you ask me. You know what is a nice sweetener for this curren trend? I'm on a 7-game hitting streak and my BA is over .300. You remember last year at this time when I was stuck down at AAA and wasn't getting any PT, then I get called up to the Bigs and am inserted directly into the starting line-up? I remember that and all the skeptisizm that surrounded that move. Looks like it's worked out pretty well for the team.

Winning is kind of a sweet nector. I could already feel myself getting blood thirsty to be a winner, but now, after getting a taste of success, I don't know if I can go back. Hopefully this isn't just a short trend. This is the direction that we all saw this team headed last year when we had the top farm system. We're finally headed down that road, and if we fall back again, I just may snap. But fear not Boston fans. Your big mouthed vocal leader isn't looking to bail out. Halifax's blue is too light to be cool, Hartford teal is just wrong. And Allentown purple? Don't even get me started on Allentown purple. That's just wrong.

As long as this winning run isn' just a mirage, you may be seeing me in a Boston jersey for a long time. Just throwing that out there.