Well, let’s get the worst out of the way, shall we? The BoSox blew it and while I personally blame the manager for stupidly keeping Pedro in the game, there’s not much to do but ‘wait until next year.’

Hopefully, with a new manager the Sox can keep up the momentum they had during the last month of the regular season.

As for the World Series, even though I hate the Yankees I can’t work up any enthusiasm for the Marlins. I’m just sitting this puppy out and will once again be able to turn off the nightly news before the sports segment.

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Donna and I watched the USA Network movie “D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear”. It was actually better than your average telefilm, but probably nothing that will pull any nominations come Emmy time.

Since Chief Moose was the focus of the script it wasn’t a surprise to see the work of the FBI and other investigative organizations being diminished. It was amusing to see the FBI ‘profilers’ (usually held up as brilliant by Court TV and other network programmers) shown to be guessing at best and misinterpreting just about everything.

The news media also came in for some bashing, but considering how they act in most situations it certainly felt ‘right’ that they did. The one scene that didn’t make sense, given how the news reporters had been portrayed up to that point, was when a reporter (who had been one who accepted and used leaked information previously, and shown to really have no scruples) was shown on the phone telling his wife to keep his own children inside. The reporter was nameless and it made no sense to suddenly try to make him sympathetic, if in fact that was the point. If it was to show his hypocrisy, it was still unnecessary since it was evident already.

Last night, I also saw my first episode of the TREMORS series on SCI-FI. Since my knowledge comes from the three films the characters really didn’t mean much to me, but it was nice to see that the creators have maintained the same tongue-in-cheek style that made the movies such cult hits. Sadly, Michael Gross wasn’t in this particular segment, but his character was frequently mentioned, so it’s evident that he probably appears often. Depending on what else is on Friday nights TREMORS may become regular viewing at Chez Chaput.