Dale Earnheardt

If you hate NASCAR, then you are a racist. I don't like NASCAR, so that makes me a racist. Also, because I don't like Koreans.

Kidding.

I was going to write about how great the Yankees are going to do in the playoffs and how they're gonna win the World Series, then Daniel Cabrera takes a no-hitter through 8 1/3rd in tonight's game. I still feel pretty good going into October. In spite of tonight, this lineup is scarier than fat people who smell like pork on the subway. As long as the pitching stays healthy (Moose, Johnson, and especially Mo) and Johan Santana gets abducted by aliens, the Yanks should make it to the World Series. But nothing would surprise me. Except if Santana got abducted by aliens, that would be a stunner.

It's going to be a fun October regardless. The MLB playoffs are starting and both NY teams are in it, we'll start to see which teams are for real in football, the leaves are preparing for death by shriveling up and turning orange (like Hulk Hogan), and Halloween ends the whole month. I don't usually dress up for Halloween, but I'm thinking this year maybe I'll wear an orange shirt (like Hulk Hogan, if his red and yellow shirts didn't have good fabric and the colors ran in the wash).

Orange.