It’s been a while since the last blog post. The Fall TV lineup has been in full swing. So, I’ve been watch lots of 30 Rock, Heroes, Weeds, etc.

In sports land there has been the MLB playoffs. The Cubs lost to the Diamondbacks, who look even worse since the Rockies swept the Diamondbacks last night. Who knows if the Cubs will ever get it together. Their hitters always seem to be swinging for the fences, which does no good against the Brandon Webb’s of the world. The pitching is Carlos Zambrono (volatility) + Lilly, Hill, Marshall (mediocrity). The bullpen isn’t very good. Maybe Hill and Marshall will get better, but this hitting (Soriano, Lee, Ramirez) has probably already peaked, even though Ramirez will have more years left than Soriano and Lee. It’s almost like Boston Red Sox-lite. They don’t spend enough money to get the great pitching and good role-hitters, but have the few power guys (Ramirez, Ortiz, Lowell), at the same positions too. Problem is, Boston-lite won’t win the World Series, and it won’t get you out of the NLDS.

Onto better news…

My fantasy teams are starting to turn around. I had some bad luck early in the year with Bulger under-performing, and then injured. I made some trades to be better in a few weeks, and now I have a bye week. After that, barring injury, like always, I could make a run for the playoffs after being down 1-4 after week 5.

College football Saturdays, NFL Sundays are great. I have to balance that with the EPL. But the English have been off TV for two weeks with Euro ‘08 qualifiers and a weird TV schedule. This Saturday was quite crazy in college football with the #1 and #2 teams losing. Now Ohio State, South Florida and Boston College are 1, 2 and 3. I don’t think any of those three would beat LSU or Florida.

Finally. The biggest news of all. The new Radiohead album In Rainbows was released through digital download only. You choose the price, so it’s been getting more press than normal. I got the download after buying the disc box (vinyls: LP + B-sides, cds: LP + B-sides and artwork), so I paid a flat $80 fee. I’ve listened to the album about 15 times now and it is pretty great. Like all of the other Radiohead greats (OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac) it doesn’t get old. It ranks up there with Neon Bible and Boxer for my favorite albums of 2007.