And I have to say, I went into the 2006 World Series as a Cardinals hater-- since they barely squeaked into the playoffs (not to mention, beat the Mets) and were grossly incompetant just 2 years ago, when the Red Sox--who barely made it into the World Series that year and had an 80+ year old CURSE on them!!-- won the World Series (I mean, couldn't they just beat the Red Sox in ONE game??? ).
Anyway, now the Cardinals are officially the world champions.
So I give props to the Cards and I have a new team to hate-- the Tigers.
Those fools from Detroit got into the World Series after basically giving the Yankees an ass-whuppin' and became the clear faves for to win-- some even thought they'd sweep all 4 games.
But instead, they lost-- badly. Granted, they were an underdog team-- but everyone was putting their hopes on them and everyone had been saying all season long that the American League was a billion times stronger than the National League, so it seemed destined that the Tigers would have a shining moment in the sun.
When it counted, though, they made constant fielding errors and lost against the incompetant Cards.
So to the Tigers: ROAR to you!!
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Anyway, I wanted to talk about how after 2 years of giving nothing back to the rest of the world (besides interviewing kids who wanted to go to my college, and the random monetary donation here and there-- for example, the tsunami and Katrina victims), I FINALLY did some actual community service last weekend.
It was an event called New York Cares Day and I spent my morning and early afternoon helping clean out this school in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
We had put together an alumni team from my college and were ready to work at 9AM on Saturday morning.
The NY Cares Staff wasn't particularly well-organized (we had to wait over 2 hours, before actually getting to work) but with our ideas and teamwork out overstaffed team (NY Cares had more volunteers thav they needed), we were able to finish our task in even less time than needed.
We were supposed to clear out this closet on the 3rd floor and move the contents to a storage room in the basement, so we came up with this idea to do an almost assembly line-type formation-- and we finished about 2 hours earlier than expected!
Yay us!
But what really shocked me was how annoying and high-strung some of the alumni I met from remain.
After we finished, some of them were soooo eager to do more work (since they feel incredibly antsy/anxious when they're not being productive-- I'm not kidding, these are their own words), that they decided to "help" out this guy who was busy painting the grating of a radiator...
So soon enough, about 10 Penn alumni were crowded around this guy, telling him how he was doing his job wrong and how he should be doing it better.
Can someone say "obnoxious"? =P
Hooray for elitist, type-A Penn alums who always think that they know better than anyone else!!
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