A hat tip to The Monkees and this lovely, gentle tune for today’s blog post title:

It’s beautiful October weather here in Massachusetts. It’s funny to think that while here to visit family and friends I’m also here to play as much golf as I can. Here the season is rapidly winding down while back in the Valley of the Sun the season is just getting ramped up as the snowbirds trickle in from Canada and points in the mid-to-upper Midwest. (And with them comes the cost of playing as well – in some cases it’s triple what the courses charge during the off-season). But that’s OK – I prefer my golf New England style, anyways.

Lots of folks here are still talking about the Indianapolis Colts play against the New England Patriots on Sunday – in fact, that’s pretty much all they’re talking about. I mean, it was a broken play, so what? Happens all the time, doesn’t it?

Me? I still can’t get over that crazy ending to the Michigan / Michigan State game on Saturday? As soon as I saw it I said to the guy sitting at the bar next to me that the poor kid’s life is going to be defined by the one play, and he’ll spend the next twenty years in rehab. But seriously, now the dude is getting death threats. All because he messed up one snap at a most inopportune moment.

I can’t help but think that if Vice-President Joe Biden enters the race for the 2016 Democratic nomination it’s only because it’s been determined that Hillary Clinton is at real risk of being indicted because of mishandling classified information because of her stupid e-mail set-up. In a real world she wouldn’t even be a candidate due to (at the very least) the gross negligence and incredibly poor lack of judgment she displayed. And that doesn’t even take into consideration her embarrassing tenure as Secretary of State.

The Kansas City Royals are looking really good against the Blue Jays. It looks like they got hot at the right and Toronto peaked to early in September. A Mets-Royals World Series would be kind of exciting.

This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. It’s because they are winners, and people are attracted to winners. Same reason why folks are attracted to Donald Trump’s run for president.