Reflections on Birthday Wishes Unfulfilled

I just cannot cut a break. I was hoping I could watch the Reds win a game for my birthday, but alas. It didn't help that the Phillies' pitcher took a perfect game into the seventh. Final score: Phillies 2, Reds 0. Regardless of the loss, it was a great time with Brian and Karin. Check out some more pictures here. Unfortunately, Randy and Sarah weren't able to make it. Sarah came down with a bad case of stomach unpleasantness. We missed them.

Speaking of Randy Surface. Here's a guy that can't cut a break. We have concluded that Randy has is own baseball hex. Growing up, he was never a sports kinda guy. Was always indifferent or even repulsed by baseball until he spent a year in France. He came home resolving to like baseball. It's been his intention ever since to attend his first Major League game.

About four years ago, he came up to Chicago and we went to Wrigley to see the Cubs. Well, we happened to go to the game that Daryl Kyle died, which was cancelled before it started. Last year, he came up and we tried our luck at a Brewers game. We got the wrong start time and ended up arriving at the stadium around the eighth inning. Now this weekend his wife gets sick. We just can't figure out why God doesn't want him to see a baseball game.