It probably was because the season ended on Sunday for the Boston Red Sox, as they didn't make the playoffs. But I wasn't dreaming about Trot Nixon, Mike Lowell, or Keith Foulke (the three Sox who might not be back next year).
Nope, instead I was dreaming about former Boston Red Sox centerfielder Johnny Damon, who's now on the dreaded New York Yankees.
In my dream, he changed his name to "Johnay" Damon.
But in my defense, doesn't that sound like something he'd do?
I was in downtown Los Angeles, with a bunch of my co-workers from Portland at a bowling alley. Actually, my old boss Tracey from LA was there too. Anyway, I don't know what we were doing, but I know I had to leave to get to the airport to catch a plane. I went outside to get a taxi, but then changed my mind, and went into this little Latin Supermarket. But just when I got inside I dropped the nine Golden Dollar coins that I was carrying. (You know, the Sacagawea ones.)
As I bent over to pick them up, I saw the rack of newspapers, and a cover about Johnny Damon. It looked something like this:
That quote, "We're not idiots, we're trained professionals", that really stuck out in my head. I just had to mock this up in Photoshop to show you. Oddly enough, the LA Daily News isn't even a tabloid-style, like the New York Daily News is. But for some reason I knew it wasn't the New York paper, because I remember thinking, "the Dodgers are in the post- season and they put him on the cover?"
Weird.
Anyway, good luck to the Detroit Tigers who play the Yankees tonight at 8:05 Eastern. Because you know the old saying, "my two favorite baseball teams are the Boston Red Sox and whoever is playing the Yankees ..."
