Matt Holthe's Fleeting Thoughts

Very late last night, the Cubs won the World Series. The final was 8-7 in 10 innings. Some people are calling it the best closing game ever. It was an awesome game, that's for sure. Cubs were up 5-1 at one point. Cleveland came back to make it 5-3, then another home run made it 6-3 and things were looking pretty good. Cleveland scores 3 runs in the 8th to tie the game. Rain started in the 9th inning. After 9 innings, there was a short rain delay. I was at Buffalo Wild Wings and the full house dropped to about 50% capacity (maybe less) during the rain delay. But the delay was only 15 or 20 minutes, and the Cubs scored 2 runs in the top of the 10th to take an 8-6 lead. Cleveland came back yet again with a run in the bottom of the 10th, but that wasn't enough as the third out was a short grounder to 3rd base. It has been 108 years since the Cubs last won a World Series, which of course was the longest streak in baseball. Now that torch has ironically been passed to Cleveland, wh...

Game 7 between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians will be tonight. The first two games were in Cleveland. Cleveland won the first game and the Cubs won the second. Then the series moved to Chicago for three games. Cleveland won the first two in Chicago to take a 3-1 lead. Then Chicago won game 5 to send the series back to Cleveland for the last two games. Last night, Chicago won to force the seventh game.

We still have 2 full months to go in 2016, but I've already scheduled 10 days of vacation in 2017. The second half of the school year has some days off (spring break, a couple 4 day weekends, etc) and we've allocated some "daddy-daughter" days on some of those days off. Then I always have my March Madness opening weekend, so there's two days for that. And we have a cruise scheduled later in the year, so I have time off for that. Just seems weird to have all this vacation scheduled already when I can't officially put it on any calendar for work yet.