win, lose, draw

So, a few days ago I said I didn't like a guy and then apparently I jinxed him.
(Peavy, I'm sorry. For the record, I only said that thing about you because my manager had been feeding me lines for flirting with my boyfriend. I actually couldn't pick you out of a lineup. Now you can go take that information and do better next time, OK?)

In other news, I have learned that when you have a tied game in baseball, they don't let it end that way. They go into overtime, which in baseball is called "extra innings." Each team tries and tries and tries until finally one of them wins. Extra points for determination!

I learned what it was called because I asked the question. You see, Game 3 of the World Series was tied the one time I checked the score. My awareness of a score always strikes me as earth-shattering enough that it's probably cemented right then and there, as if the Gods of Sports saw me coming and decreed that No More Time Shall Pass.

Tied games are particularly tough for people who don't like sports because it means that the people you love who care are probably pissed off (a tie doesn't make ANYONE happy, no matter how many times I point out that it's kind of like we all learned how to get along) and also...and this is noticeably worse...because the game may CONTINUE LONG PAST ITS SCHEDULED TIME.

No one watches TV on a schedule anymore, so this is not quite as upsetting as it was back in the day when my shows would get preempted because SOME GUY didn't perform quite as well as, let's face it, he should have, and now I don't get to watch Mad About You tonight.
But still, it takes longer.

Speaking of performance, why is it referred to as "performance anxiety" in both sports and sex, but as "stage fright" in other performance-based scenarios? This is an excellent case of sports using words poorly. A sport is not technically a "performance," nor is (done correctly) sex. That seems odd and kind of backwards. There are numerous other cases of words being used wrong in sports but if I listed them all here I'd have nothing to talk about later. We wouldn't want that.


UPDATE: The Cardinals won that game. Game 3. So that means they were winning, 2-1, at that juncture. At some point we will discuss when they play where and why. I just have to research this, first, because from where I sit it seems somewhat arbitrary.


UPDATE THE SECOND: The Red Sox won Game 4. I thought I should include that in case you were getting your World Series update news from me, which of course you are. Which means that they ARE NOW TIED! 
Boom. 
Shout-out to the Sox for allowing me to wrap up this post in a nice little tie-related bow.