Sheets

I like it. Ben Sheets is awesome. He also is always hurt, but hey, 10 mill on a one year deal isn't really that much, considering we only pay like half of that when we trade him midseason. Which we will do. If he gets hurt we're fucked, no way around that, but honestly, all we lose is the money. We weren't going to spend that money on other players at this point, may as well spend it on a gamble like Sheets.

I don't think this makes us a playoff team though. We'd need all three teams in our division to get unlucky and suck more than they do. Which hey, could happen I guess, but unlikely it happens to all 3. Also, our team is full of players that are either unknowns or walking injuries. If we make the playoffs, it'll be because Brett Anderson took another big leap forward and cements himself as a top 5 pitcher in the league (hey, a guy can dream right), sheets and duke manage to keep their arms healthy, mark ellis finally stays healthy or patterson remembers that he shouldn't really suck this bad in the bigs, Daric Barton or Chris Carter break out, Sweeney somehow manages to maintain his godlike fielding in right, crisp/davis dont suck or taylor replaces one of them and doesn't suck, o and pennington somehow manages to not be pennington. Pretty much if all those things happen I could see us being a playoff team, and honestly, I dont see any of those happening (except the whole brett anderson turning into some kind of deity thing, this I very much am looking forward to).

So yea, unless hurt, sheets is gone by july. Same with crisp. would not be surprised if kouz and duke also are shipped, that being if cardenas and cahill are succeeding like I hope they will be doing at AAA. Every year I go into the season with optimism thinking this might be the year. It never is. This year, not so optimistic. Team simply has too many question marks. Still can't hit, still way to much potential for injury, other than Brett Anderson, this is shaping up to be an ugly season. That being said, this is probably the year we win the world series, if only because I'm always wrong about these things.

Grades

Don't think I ever did a Fall 09 grades post. Went much better than expected. A- in J4, kinda bummed but probably deserved. P in neuroscience, which was fine. Real grade was probably a B, I'm fine with the P tho. Pysch I got a straight C. Which is awesome. I seriously thought I was going to fail that class. I had a D+ and a D on the first two midterms. The mean on the final was a 25/30, and grades were curved. That tells you how well I did on the final. I owned that shit. And icing on the cake, I didn't get an incomplete! The class required 6 hours of research work, zero of which I completed. I checked the grade list, I's were given out, not to me though. So overall, not great, but for the amount of effort that went in, very relieved.

This quarter was shaping up disastrous, as I didn't get into Ling 103. Here at LA, pretty much all upper div ling classes have 103 as a prereq. I found a loophole though, my Syntax II class at SC counts as a prereq for an upper div elective here, so I got into that class earlier than I probably should be allowed. Its called Mathematical Structures in Language, which, quite frankly, sounds fucking AWESOME. Also taking an intro to logic course, which also for some reason counts towards a linguistics degree here. Optimistic at the moment, logic has potential to be interesting I guess. An then J5, which pleases me. So feeling alright about this quarter I guess. Still been feeling a bit down mood wise, but hoping that turns around if I can manage to get swept up in my studies.