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Last night I watched an incredible baseball game. At the end of the season, it will most likely be in the top 10 games of the year. John Gruber even brought it up and linked to this story in the NY Times. There were points where I almost turned the game off, but my opportunities to watch the Yankees in California are few and far between, so I was going to suffer through what seemed like an impending loss.

Then the comeback began. It was that familiar feeling I’ve had so many times over the past decade when you just know they are going to win. But what really caught my attention was something Jon Miller said after the Yankees had scored four runs in the 9th against Jonathan (Guns of) Broxton and he was walking off the field to the dugout. Broxton came into the game with a four run lead, so it wasn’t a save opportunity and giving up those four runs in the ninth wasn’t a blown save. Broxton didn’t come back out in the 10th, that honor was bestowed upon George Sherrill. Since the game was tied when Sherrill came in, Broxton wasn’t the losing pitcher.

So Broxton doesn’t get a blown save or a loss, but his four runs in one inning is good for a 36.00 ERA. So his stats aren’t completely unscathed, but I think I said it best with my tweet last night.

What a statistical sin that Broxton gets neither the blown save nor the loss in that game.

I thought of this quote after the game this weekend.

“Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.” –Gary Lineker

So I was looking forward to Final Fantasy for the iPhone ever since Square announced that it would be coming out, as well as Final Fantasy II. I’ve been playing it since the day it was released, although I haven’t been able to really dedicate a lot of time to it.

In the interest of time, I figured I would try and find a walk through for Final Fantasy to make sure my memory was as good as I think it is. After all, when I played the original on NES, I wasn’t even in high school yet.

So it appears that no one has created a walkthrough for this specific version of the game, but luckily, I found an original that should work just fine since the content of the game is the same.

Click here for the Final Fantasy walkthrough

In case you are wondering, my part is made up of:

Fighter/Monk/Thief/Red Mage

Here is a shot of my party in Elfheim.

I wish you all good luck in the battle against Chaos.

I’ve only been playing it for a few weeks but I am absolutely in love with Ramp Champ. For fans of Skeeball, Ramp Champ puts a fun twist on the classic boardwalk game. Ramp Champ comes with 4 built in levels, and has in-app purchases that allows you to download “packs” that include more levels and more prizes.

Prizes? Yes thats right. There is loot in Ramp Champ. As you can see in the picture here, I’ve collected some sick prizes by spending the tickets of my winnings. The expansion packs that you can purchase from the app store also include new prizes to spend your tickets on.

In addition to collecting tickets for each game you play on these levels, there are three specific goals of each level to strive for. For example, one simple goal is always to reach a certain point level, usually 10,000 points, but sometimes higher.

As far as gameplay goes, its a very straight-forward flick of the screen to fire the balls at the targets. It’s a very short learning curve, but it takes a while to master.
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Stacy got Sophia this fleece hoodie a few weeks ago, and I snagged this action photo of her with it on.

I tried to find places to get them online, but it looks like Pet Smart is the only place. They didn’t have anything on Amazon or // eBay.

So the new qik live iPhone app lets you stream live from the iPhone to the qik.com web site. I decided to give this a try and broadcast a few hours of me playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 over the past few days. It works well, so I will continue to stream like at my web site qik.com/perfy

This has turned out to be a fun vacation!