So yesterday, March 30, was my father-in-law's birthday. Oddly enough it was also my birthday.

Yes, my wife married someone who has the same birthday as her dad.

Like father, like husband, I guess.

So Happy Birthday to us!

Anyway, yesterday was also the third game of a series between my Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Now as you know, I lived in Los Angeles for six years around the turn of the millennium. For half of those years I lived about nine miles from Dodger Stadium. Thus the Dodgers became my favorite National League team in baseball.

That's why I just I can't believe that my two favorite teams in baseball were playing each other on my birthday and I wasn't there.

And because the teams are in different leagues, they've only been playing each other regularly since interleague play began in 1997. In fact the last time they played with in early June of 2004 at Fenway Park in Boston ... a few weeks before I left California for Maine.

Apparently they also played in late June of 2002, June 21-23, at Dodger Stadium, but for some reason I didn't go. Maybe I was too busy going to see Lilo & Stitch?

Either way, it's full-on baseball season in the States right now, so you might forgive me if I I don't cover things like the Dubai World Cup horse race that happened on Saturday. But you should totally google it, it's so pretentious that most of the articles I've seen focus on the fashion and hats more than the horses.

Seriously, the hats are huge - in both a figurative and literal way. One store even brought in seven milliners because they needed so many hats!!

Yep, give me baseball any day of the week ... especially my birthday.