Well, it’s been 26 years — longer than I’ve even been a Brewers fan — but, it finally happened. The Brewers made the playoffs today.

How am I a Brewers fan, anyways? It all started when I was a kid at the age of 10 or 11, and I loved looking at box scores in the newspaper. I decided to pick a favorite team, since there wasn’t a MLB team in Nebraska. I could have picked KC, but, didn’t.

I selected the Brewers based solely on the names found in the starting lineup. Molitor. Yount. Gantner. Spiers. Higuera.

So after about 20 years of futility, they finally fucking made it.

But it wasn’t without a total roller coaster of a season.

Slow start in April and most of May. June was glorious. Most of July was great, until the Cubs rolled into Milwaukee and swept four games. August was outstanding, but September was atrocious up until the final week.

On Sept 21, the Brewers were 2.5 games behind the Mets for the Wild Card lead.

Going into the final series on Friday, the Brewers were tied with the Mets.

Thankfully the Mets choked big time, and the Brewers won two out of three from the Cubs to make the playoffs for the first time since 1982.

I have a fair amount of friends who are huge Mets fans, and I don’t feel sorry for them at all. I’ve gone my whole life without seeing the brew-crew make it in, and here they are. I still don’t believe it.

It was an excruciating viewing experience at a sports bar this afternoon watching both games simultaneously. The Brewers trailed most of today’s game 1-0, until the 7th when a bases-loaded walk by Craig Counsell tied the game.

In the 8th, Ryan Braun hit a 2-run homer. CC Sabathia, who has been unbelievable, went nine innings and didn’t give up an earned run. He gets my vote for NL MVP, but he won’t win it.

Then I had to watch the end of the Mets game. They had threats in both the 8th and 9th innings, but it ended when Ryan Church drove a deep ball to right — but it was caught on the warning track.

How far can this team go? Who knows. I was insane enough to book a flight to Milwaukee for the first playoff series back in the early part of September, and it looked like a horrible idea about a week ago. But, I’m going and I even was able to find reasonable tickets on StubHub.

Holy Fucking Shit.

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It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Coen movie in the theaters, but we made it out to see Burn After Reading the other night. I was actually prepared to wait for it on DVD (as I am most movies these days) but it was Laura’s birthday, and she really wanted to see it.

And other than Brad Pitt’s woefully misplaced character and acting performance, it was a rather enjoyable viewing. Even Malkovich was annoying at times, but his character was certainly the reason.

Bottom line, it was typical Coen brothers. Which is good, and it hasn’t worn old on me just yet, although I can see the “regular” plot-twisting hijinks getting old at some point. And the cinematography hasn’t gotten too drab just yet, either.

I realized today I had watched Event Horizon lately — within the past 3 months — and have very little recollection of it. My memory has always been pretty bad in a lot of areas, but this seems pretty ridiculous.

While I should probably curb my alcohol consumption during movie-watching, I am going to make a more solid effort at writing about what I’ve seen in this journal. Yeah, I called it a journal.

Anyways, I watched A History of Violence and Wild at Heart over the past week.

AHoV was somewhat interesting, yet for the most part, I found it to be pretty boring at the same time. It seems like a great story, and I’m sure the graphic novel is way better than the film. I just think it was poorly translated onto the big screen in many ways.

Wild at Heart… oh what a classic! I hadn’t seen this in so long, I had very vague memories of it, other than it was Nick Cage being a badass. I can’t decide if this is the best Lynch movie I’ve seen, but it’s certainly very close to it.