Taking a page from Carnac the Maginificent:

The answer is: Mosquitos and the New York Yankees

Question: Name two things God created simply to pester and annoy people.

Last night a lone mosquito seemed to know EXACTLY the moment I was drifting off to sleep when I’d hear his angry little whine in my ear or his little pesky mosquito body brushing up against my arm, leg, or toes. So up I’d get, turn on all the lights in the room and try and find the little bastard. A couple of times I came close, but at 3 AM every sound is amplified in the house and you simply can’t set out to destroy a mosquito and attempt to do it quietly. Hence, after a couple of failed attempts, and hoping I might have gotten enough of him to wound him (or at least convey my intent to do him harm), I’d shut the lights off and try and go back to sleep. And just as I was starting to get comfortable and drift off, the whole scene would repeat itself all over again.

Needless to say, there wasn’t a lot of sleep to be had last night.

As for the New York Yankees, is there any member of the Bronx Bombers that doesn’t swagger and act like their God’s gift to baseball? How that organization is able to replace one generation of obnoxious punks with another shows real character, I’ll tell you that. Bobby Abreu. Melky Cabrera. Robinson Cano. Shelley Duncan. Kyle Farnsworth. Joba Chamberlain. All punks. All coming up and learning from the King Punk himself, Jorge Posada.

And it wouldn’t be so bad if the ESPN baseball announcing tandem of Jon Miller and Joe Morgan weren’t such kiss-asses to the Yankees. These guys are obnoxious enough as it is, but you’d think it was the Yankees, and not the Sox, who had won two of the last four World Series.

Hmmm…maybe I should change the title of this post to Mosquitos, the New York Yankees, and Jon Miller and Joe Morgan.