I won two 1st place prizes with that costume. One party was at the Civic Center where I do water aerobics. I briefly walked in to that class in full costume. The young instructor's back was turned to me, and I tapped him on the shoulder.  He told me later that I scared him after he turned around and saw me.

Also we're finding out that Millenials are now less favorable for Obama so even if the get out the vote machine works like it did in 2010 without Obama on the ballot and with him less favorable it might not fight against the polling as we saw in 2010 and especially 2012.

Who knows.  I think a republican victory is likely but now that the expectations have been raised for a big win anything short of that will be spun as a victory of sorts.

Doesn't matter much either way.  Even if Obama does somehow hold on to the Senate or loses it just barely his agenda is over except for executive action and the Hillary vs. Republican X will start in full force November 5th.

According to returns released Monday more than 660,000 of Colorado's 3 million registered voters have already handed in their ballots.  

Of those voters 32 percent are Democrats, 43 percent are Republicans and 24 percent are unaffiliated voters

The numbers update as of today show 1,042,000+ votes cast - with 41.5% of the votes cast by Republicans and 32%+ cast by Democrats.  25% were cast by "Unaffiliated" -  official SOS site.

So, while things are balancing out two new polls out show Gardner up by as little as 2 and as much as 7. Udall hasn't had a consensus lead since early September.

The three states' lists are heavily weighted with names such as Jackson, Garcia, Patel and Kim -- ones common among minorities, who vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Indeed, fully 1 in 7 African-Americans in those 27 states, plus the state of Washington (which enrolled in Crosscheck but has decided not to utilize the results), are listed as under suspicion of having voted twice. This also applies to 1 in 8 Asian-Americans and 1 in 8 Hispanic voters. White voters too -- 1 in 11 -- are at risk of having their names scrubbed from the voter rolls, though not as vulnerable as minorities.If even a fraction of those names are blocked from voting or purged from voter rolls, it could alter the outcome of next week's electoral battle for control of the U.S. Senate -- and perhaps prove decisive in the 2016 presidential vote count.

But in this case you guys are right...an exciting 7 Game Series speaks for itself, the booth and graphics team just needs to stay out of the way!

Congrats San Fran, 3 in 5 years, not too shabby.  Way to represent the league playing real baseball, the National League.

And speaking of old announcers from a bygone era, Vin Scully will be returning for the 2015 season at age 87, which will mark his 66th year behind the mike as the Dodgers' radio and TV voice. I grew up listening to him, and apparently the one concession he's made to age is that he's only doing the home broadcasts, with occasional road games in the Bay Area, San Diego and Phoenix, because those places are an hour or less away by plane -- but no more cross-country travel.

But my Cardinals's relief pitching collapsed. I think they were tied or leading in the 7th for all but one game in NLCS.

As for the commentators, as Dizzy said:

"The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good."

In 1965, Leahey hired and took under his wing a brash 21-year-old guy named Al Michaels, who had just been fired by the NBA Los Angeles Lakers after only four games as that team's radio color man, apparently because Chick Hearn took a very strong dislike to him. Michaels sought out Leahey shortly afterward while on a trip to Honolulu with his parents and on a whim, asked him for a job.

Michaels would serve as Leahey's sidekick at KGMB-TV and radio station KGU-AM for five years, providing color commentary on Islanders and University of Hawaii football / basketball broadcasts, announcing high school football games and working as a TV sports anchor. In 1968, Leahey promoted him to be the Islanders' play-by-play guy, while graciously consigning himself to be Michaels' color man.

Michaels freely credits Chuck Leahey as his mentor, not only as the guy who taught him how to call a ball game, but as the person who eventually sent him packing -- only this time, in a very good way.

Leahey had been in the broadcasting business for a very long time, and over the years he had built up a considerable network of connections with teams and stations around the country. When word came from a good friend in the Cincinnati Reds' front office that they were looking for a new play-by-play announcer for the 1971 season, he strongly recommended that they consider Al Michaels for the position, and sent them an audiotape of his protégé working an Islanders game.

The Reds listened to that tape, were very impressed and hired Michaels on Chuck Leahey's recommendation. He was on his way.

Listening to some of the guys who are now calling games and doing color on Fox Sports and ESPN, I have to wonder if their primary mentors and inspirations weren't game show hosts, rather than sports journalists and broadcasters.

State police Lt. Col. George Bivens, speaking at a news conference at the Blooming Grove Township Building in Pike County, said evidence found suggests the 31-year-old is still in the area being searched. That includes soiled diapers -- snipers have been known to use diapers to stay in position for long periods of time -- and a distinctive brand of cigarettes, Bivens said.