It's late in the season, and we're out of the running.

I'm listening to the Pirate game, and Lanny Frattare (Pirate announcer) is speaking on how moving it is to have the pirate ship animation on Jumbotron (the one I mocked for the phrase "there be squirrels ahead") backed by the music of Carmina Burana. Never noticed that before. Then Lanny says "let's listen."

This is what happens when your method for getting a solid crowd is to bring the Milwaukee sausages come over to race the pierogies for Friday night, then the next day, trade sausage batterer Randall "Corndog with a stick" Simon.