Les Rues Converger À La Maison

So as the Skip and I returned from our Revere-esque Ride across New England, the First Mate returned from a softball tourney in Sherbrooke. Oui, she was bloodied but unbowed and her squad suffered a few unfortunate innings at the provincial level contest resulting in an early exit, but she was already anticipating her club match tomorrow. The Skip and I were thoroughly spent from our travels yet remained triumphant from our campaign across baseball's landscape.

We all kicked it at the Mais with a spread of appetizers, Appleton's, American smokes and Guitar Hero.

I realize that until now you have only been privy to small snippets transmitted via mobile. Your patience is appreciated.

The Major League recap of the Major League road trip is en route.

Maniwaki Mobile - Now Entering Yawkey Way

A true story. The Skip and I are passing through the turn stiles at
Fenway. The Skip told the guy at the gate that this was his first time
through the doors. The gatekeepers response: Welcome aboard.
A detailed account to follow. Ahoy.

Maniwaki Mobile - More Notes From The Northeast

have gone head to head with north eastern labour day traffic and have
successfully penetrated the heart of new england. The red sox
continued their drive by spanking the Chi Sox 8-0 amidst a plague of
locusts. Which makes me a tad concerned about attending tomorrow's
contest. The Rays have clinched their first winning season tonight.
The Cubs own the best record in baseball.Does a leviathan rise from
the atlantic to lay waste to fenway and the rest of the al east? The
signs are there. We might have to summon the green monster to defend Maniwaki`s interests in the region. As well as baseball's...

Of The Grandest Of Walk Offs

Of course there will be more explained later. Let's just say for now that Giambi's heroics will forever cement him as a Stadium titan. Although New Yorkers are somber at the fact that the pin stripes are falling out of contention and for the first time in 14 years time are a not looking October bound , Giambi's blast in the 7th to tie and ensuing walk off rbi single in the ninth to cap off the last Yanks/Sox series ever at The Stadium was on par for the last few days.

Epic for baseball.

A quote from the man himself:

"The last time we play the Red Sox in this Yankee Stadium, and the battles we've been through, this should end like this."

Of course it should.

Maniwaki Mobile - Stadium Snippets

Too much to recap in one shot. Time to summarize. On the train back
up. City. Immense. The park. Pristine. The view. Rockeffeler Center.
The shop. New era flagship. The patio. On St. Mark's. The Stadium.
Historic. The game. A blow out. The era. Over. The captain. Defiant.
The fans. Knowledgable and passionate. The RDS Turning Point. The First Mate's shout out on RDS. The beer. Abound. The new
underdog. The yankees. The new yankees. The red sox. The love of the
Game. Intensified. The experience. Worth it. Good for baseball? Try
imperative.

Maniwaki Mobile - The Road

Have successfully crossed the border and infiltrated the North East.
Up state NY is surprisingly more picturesque than anticipated.Have
kindly been given room and board by the Skip's college pal Pete in his
19th century character home. Had a stellar bbq and them retired to the
parlour to discuss the finer points of the current mlb season the
yanks battled the red sox on the yes network. Today we sit on the
periphery. Tomorrow we storm the wall.

The Road To The Stadium

Sometimes you just don't even have to question, you know you're on the right road. Got on the WestJet this morning to fly out east and meet the Skip, where tomorrow we will embark on our epic journey to Yankee Stadium and then onto Fenway. Somewhere over Thunder Bay I decided to pull out the obligatory inflight mag to compare specs on the WestJet fleet ( WJ Boeing 737-700 vs the smaller regional 737 - 600) only to find this on the cover:







Complete with this article.

To revisit a quote used many times in these e-pages:

"Yup."

WAITING ABOARD 'HOME ONE'

As I await the Admiral's impending arrival, knowing that we must plan our final approach on the Death Star, I have but one thing to say:

Red 5. Standing by.

- the Skip

Dog Day Afternoon

Gotta say, this was one of the best games I've watched all year. Jays/Red Sox in a divisional tilt, on a sunny day with the RogersDome roof open. Sure I wasn't actually there, but having sat along the third base line under similar summer conditions, I might as well have been.

This was not a nail biter in the least. Just an old fashioned American League East bomb fest as the Blue Jays bats bashed their way to an 11-0 rout. Everything felt like the old days as the Dome packed over 44 000 people, watching the lads muscle their way into the playoff chase. Even the CBC broadcast booth had Rance Mullniks and Jesse Barfield calling the game alongside regular Canucks' commentator Jim Hughson. (Who by the way are the best Blue Jays broadcast team as the vets recant stories of the old days, while Hughson, remarkably and consistently chimes in relevant analysis and insights.)

I half expected Roberto Alomar to run out to second base.

Make no mistake. The Jays are in it, and are quietly making things interesting in the East. While the mainstream press keeps questioning the Yanks' October chances, waiting to see a pinstripe drive, they are completely missing the fact that the Jays are a mere game back of NY. It is quite conceivable that by the time, the Skip and I get to The Stadium next week, there could be a big blue cloud hanging over the Bronx as the Jays could be a few games up on the Yanks.

The Boston media is however starting to sound the alarm, perfectly aware of the Sox struggles with the Jays. After today, and with Beckett and Wakefield on the DL, the Sox staff looks nowhere close to October bound. Despite how much or little T.O. factors in Beantown's finish, I foresee a late season green monster sized collapse, resulting in Papi, Beckett and Youk kicking it with Cliff and Norm at Cheers to watch the ALDS.

Tomorrow. AJ attempts to ring up Dice K's bar tab in the series finale.

CBC Headlines

- Van Koeverden seeks redemption in 500

- Heartbreak for Canadian mountain bikers

- Marcum terrible in Toronto loss to Red Sox


Good thing I'm drunk.

Out Of The Primordial Ooze

"How many did they end up with? I don't even know."

- Derek Jeter inquiring after the Jays handed the Yanks their worst loss of the season, 14-3.

Bats, bats, bats and more bats as everyone hit except Wells. And aside from Wells and Overbay, everyone had a multiple hit game. Add to that yet another Cy Young outing by The Doc and we're looking at the '08 season's dna starting to recombine itself into the beginning framework of a late season drive.

Laugh if you will that we are hanging around the Wild Card, but we are hanging around

A decisive series win, ground gained on the pinstripes in the standings and finally some timely hitting. The Jays now sit 7 games out of the WC with only NY (6 games left), Minny(3) and Boston(10) in our path.

I ain't flipping the channel just yet.

Boo The Umps!

For signing an agreement with baseball allowing for the use of instant replay in border calls. Yesterday it appeared as if the field bosses were aligning to try and stop MLB's ridiculous initiative, but today they are now begrudgingly on board.

In a week I am travelling out East to meet the Skip. Where we will be driving down to The Stadium and then onto Fenway to take in games. Selig's proposed system is being fast tracked for this year. If we are sitting in our grand old seats, in these grand old stadiums, taking in these grand old games, and a grand Papi borderline bomb bounces off the Monster, only to be decided by some MLB monkey sitting in his booth in New York, we will most certainly be putting the "Mauler" in Maniwaki Mauler.

Pay heed MLB.

You have been warned....

The TSN Turning Point

What I want to see:

The Jays continue this drive, quietly vaulting over teams ahead of them in the standings until some media outlet south of the border finally realizes the Wild Card takeover and starts screaming "Colorado Rockies of '08!" over the broadband.

What I don't want to see:

The Jays continue this drive, quietly vaulting over teams ahead of them in the standings until some media outlet south of the border finally realizes the Wild Card takeover and starts screaming "Colorado Rockies of '08!" over the broadband.

Only to finish the season a runway model slim 1.5 games out of a playoff spot.

AJ won his career best 16th tonight and is still climbing. He's got more wins than Roy right now, and Doc is gunning for another Cy Young. The lads are 7.5 out of the WC with plenty of matches left against the squads ahead of them.

My message to them for the rest of the season:

If you're going to win, win. If not, save me a Maniwaki sized heartbreak and go 2- 35 the rest of the way.

Mo' Medals

Two silvers. One in trampoline and one in Equestrian show jumping, so really they should just count as one in total.

What's next?

Bronze in Bocce Ball?

At least the big news is that Chrétien managed to find his way back to the national stage, slamming the PM on his absence from Beijing. JC stated that if he was still Prime Minister, he wouldn't have "hesitated a second" in going to the games.

And who wouldn't want that?

One thing's for sure. He definitely would've deflected attention from Team Canada's slow start.





"Look out guy! Here I go!"

8 G Is Not The New iPhone

How about that Phelps character?

Watching the medley relay last night as 250 drunk, screaming Yanks crowded around the bar was one of those memorable Manwiwaki moments that definitely will enter the Hall. A convention of investment bankers from all over the States packed in, got fuelled up on Grey Goose and roared their heads off as Phelps and company took to the pool.

And what a race. For a while it was looking like Phelps was going to join Tom Brady and the 07/08 Pats in the near miss with history department, as Team USA fell to third around the middle of the race. When Phelps dove in and turned it on, the frenzy that ensued was so maniacal I was certain all his 250 country men were going to disrobe and jump into English Bay to swim around Stanley Park in solidarity.

It was a gong show with the gong made out of Olympic Gold. The mind numbing eight gold in one games for Phelps makes him the greatest Olympian of all time.

Hey, for Phelps (who's a monster hip hop fan), his performance can only be summed up by a titan of hip hop. Namely Dr. Dre. who famously rhymed:

"Aint' nothing but a G-thang..."















"That's some Dick Van Patton shit right there. Eight iz enough bitchezzz!"

Hey We Got One!

Three actually! A silver in rowing and a bronze and gold in women's wrestling. I didn't even know women's wrestling even existed! Good for us that it does!

Day 9.

Missed a bronze in shot put by a mere cm and the gals' soccer team got bounced.

What more can you say?

Nope.

SYM Around The World

Or "Shit Your Mound" to be more precise.

Looks like Team Canada's Softball team has read a page out of the Blue Jays playbook. Up 1-0 in the fifth only to collapse and give up a four spot to the Yanks who now lead 4-1.

The aforementioned Jays (now Scott Richmondless) held the Tigers by a 1-0 tally going into the seventh only to collapse and spot them five runs.

There has been some pretty bad ju-ju swirling around Maniwaki HQ lately. Perhaps I need to read The Secret.

Make Medal For Glorious Nation Of Canada

Fired up the old lappy to and zipped over to TSN where they were trumpeting that Canadian Mike Brown had an actual, legitimate shot at bringing home the nation's first medal.

Surfed back 10 minutes later to find that he narrowly missed the podium, finishing fourth. But who are we kidding? The official result might read fourth, but becuase Phelps wasn't even in the event, Brown really finished fifth.

As Chris Rudge, head of the Canadian Olympic Committee, tries to put out the increasing brush fires that have been springing up across the country, by urging Canadians to relax, I would like to present a list of countries that have more medals than Canada thus far:

GEORGIA
AZERBAIJAN
SLOVAKIA
KAZAKHSTAN
KYRGYZSTAN
ARMENIA
TAJIKSTAN
UZBEKISTAN

Never mind powerhouses China and The US, we are getting demolished on the world stage by Team Borat. And good for them.

Not Maniwaki Mobile - Disaster! The Sequel

Disaster! On set of mega epic blockbuster end of the world flick, Farewell Atlantis again today.

Disaster! My cell phone decided to implode thus making any mobile score checking/blogging as futile as Team Canada landing a medal in Beijing.

Disaster! An incredibly rare move in fantasy team as I decided to sit Papi this week. And of course he responded to being benched by cracking two three run jacks in the first inning against the Rangers in a 19-17 bomb fest.

Disaster!

A League Of Her Own

So Team Canada starter, Lauren Bay Regula, took a no no into the fifth against Chinese Taipai in Olympic softball. And holy smokes did she look like a Big Leaguer.

Not knowing that softball pitchers can hit 104 mph with that small town Sports Days windmill, I pretty much shit bronze as she mowed down hitter after hitter after hitter with stuff that made the Millenium Falcon look like a Model T. The Chinese batters took her deep into counts, but just couldn't catch up to the smoke she was hucking. I haven't seen underhanded pitching this menacing since watching various men's teams throw smoke in rural Sasky. And then drink Crown in between innings.

On the hill she looked focused, and pretty much the face of October so it was no surprise to learn later that she's the sister of Jason Bay. Never mind Scott Richmond, JP should've made a move for her at the trade deadline and brought her up. There's no way we would've dropped that set to Cleveland recently.

Although the entirety of Team Canada looks pretty much like a bad Roots commercial right now - boasting a grand total of 0 medals in anything- I will definitely be keeping my eye on these lasses and pray to the baseball gods that they face off against Jenny Finch and the Yanks at some point.

Maniwaki To JP: The Deportation Papers Have Been Filed

Canadian Medal Count In Beijing: 0

Maniwaki Projected Medal Count: 3

Canadian Starting Pitchers Held Off Olympic Roster By Bumbling Major League GM: 1

Chances for Canada to earn a Medal in baseball: significantly decreased

Analysis:

Thank you JP Ricciardi for not only calling North Van native, Scott Richmond, into an increasingly futile Blue Jays August campaign (as we are about to get swept by Cleveland. That's right. Swept. By a last place team.) but for also crushing the remaining hope of Canadian ball fans that this country can do something significant in the game this year.

Ten games out of the div lead and around seven out of the WC and you couldn't have called up some other MLB hopeful in the system, so that Richmond could help the national squad. Brilliant piece of front office work.

Especially as Richmond boasts a no decision and is on his way to a loss against a last place team in his big league stint. No knock against him. It appears Groundhog's Day is playing on the Jumbotron as the bats have seen their shadow and have retreated back beneath the turf.

Olympic Flicker Ticker

A variety of events right now on a variety of channels. Let's see who's making a run for the podium in:

...Olympic women's beach volleyball. Whilst I love to see the scantily clad disciples of Gabby Reese bump set and spike their way across Eastern sands, this sport really deserves to be stay where it belongs. On Saturday afternoon in the dead of winter. Or on some wacky '80's Porky's esque comedy like "One Crazy Summer Part 7" or something...

...Who is this Canadian judo master? Flipped to the French station and is seems like there's an heir to former Quebecois judo great, Nicolas Gill. This Frazer seems to be flipping his way out of the first round, by applying some sick sweeps and hucks. Now here's a sport that deserves Olympic inclusion. The Mauler makes the case for more traditional Martial Arts. I don't see how Karate is not an official sport but somehow Equestrian show jumping is. What next? Olympic table setting...?

...Let's check in on the Jays. Oh look Roy's on the hill. And we're up 2-0 on the Indians. All is well thus far. Time to flip back to women's beach volleyball...

...US and Netherlands tied. Wow, these chicks can hit. After playing Heineken fuelled beach volleyball over the last few years, I can appreciate the skill and power of the gal's game. If I had to return one of their serves I would probably start crying and bury my head in the sand. Oh look, like the Yanks have just won. But who will they face next? The Amazons Of Paradise Island...?

...Cycling. Looks pretty exciting. Wish my French was good enough to understand the commentary. A huge pack of cats darting down some Beijing road and across the finish line. Spaniard, Samuel Sanchez squeaked in by a skinny tire to win the race. The announcers seem pretty up in arms about some rider, Michael Barry. I hope he's not another Canadian that just missed a medal. Oh look he is. Ninth place...

...Onto some good old fashioned Yank coverage. Womens' Team V-ball. Indoors. Now we're talking. In order to be a volley ball player the games, you need to be wearing Asics not zinc. Looks like the US lasses are getting worked by the Japanese. Maybe it's because the Japanese look as serious as Samurai while the US team looks like a junior girls team who are more excited about facebooking each other after the match. Or even during...

..How's Roy doing? Pretty good by striking out Sizemore in the top of the fifth. Back to Beijing...

...And a tilt. Men's boxing. US Virgin Islands vs the fighting Irish. And Kenny Egan of Dublin has walked away with it by a score of 22-2. Won't be seeing any Canadian fighters for a while as we're only sending one to the games, Adam Trupish. What happened to the days of Razor Ruddick and Shawn O'Sullivan? I guess all the kids are watching either George St. Pierre or George LaRaque...

... more Maniwaki coverage to follow. Have to go hurl as Roy has just walked in a run. 4-2 to the Tribe...

Maniwaki Mobile - Disaster!

Disaster! On set of ultra mega epic end of the world flick Farewell
Atlantis.
Disaster! Jays lose to the Indians 5-2.

The Big Blue Broom

Even I didn't think a sweep was possible. Continuing on from yesterday (and to use a hockey cliche) there are even more positives to build on.

AJ's having a career year picking up his fourteenth win tonight and leading the AL in strikeouts. Thank God JP never moved him before the deadline as we probably would've gotten Manny Ramirez's old batting gloves in return or something.

The Rt. Hon. John McDonald comes through once again with his glove (turning the game ending double play as BJ is starting to give me the Batista sweats lately) but also chips in to the cause with his bat. Two for three tonight with a plate of two Flinstone sized RIBS. He keeps this up he's going to have to change his name to Bam Bam. Well...then again maybe not for a while as he's hitting a shade over .200. But whatevs, timely hitting is timely hitting.

This Scott Downs character is another highly underrated Jay. I've been following him since his Montreal days (in which he was a shaky starter) to his quiet domination of the Jays pen. There is no question that aside from Roy, he instills the most confidence in me when he's on the hill. As I mentioned above, BJ's got me breaking out the Batista towel lately, but Downs has rarely let me down. I can think of maybe one instance out of the last few seasons where I was screaming about a blown inning. If you can keep the MBP down (Maniwaki Bitching Potential) you have definitely earned your spot on the staff.

Tomorrow. Let's see if this train can keep on moving through Cleveland.

A clean Dome is a happy Dome.

Something To Cheer About

Finally. Let's recap:

1. A 5-1 win over the A's, the Jays third in row, setting the table for:

2. A possible sweep tomorrow.

3. Starter, Shaun Marcum pitching five innings of no no until getting tagged for a jack at the start of the sixth. Marcum had gone from early season brilliance to severe Skydome shitting as of late. He needed this, the Jays needed this. I really needed this.

3. Oh yeah, he K'd five consecutive batters.

4. The bats staying hot as Rod Barajas blasted an absolute monster three run bomb into the second deck.

5. The legendary approaching mythical defence of John McDonald. Last night he kept the lads in fight by turning yet another disgusting double play. Tonight he penciled in another chapter in the saga by gunning down Frank Thomas trying to score from third. The day the Jays make it back to the post season, one of the players I want to see most take the field in October is Johnny Mac. And then listen to Fox commentators lose their shit when they see him pull off the post season's first quadruple play.

6. Cito trying the suicide squeeze. Who doesn't love this play? Although the aforementioned Sir John A didn't pull it off on his first bunt attempt, he chopped out an infield grounder that served the same purpose and brought home Adam Lind. I love small ball.

6. The Indians are on the slate after the A's. Aside from Cy Young candidate, Cliff Lee, they are so scrub this year that even KC is pulling away from them. I am hoping for good things. And that I am writing a similar post to this one in a week.

Habs Give Up On Sundin. Sign White Instead.

Apparently sick of Mats Sundin dragging his CCM Tacks in trying to decide if and when to play next year, Habs GM Bob Gainey has made bold move by wrangling UFC president Dana White away from the MMA empire, signing him to a three year deal. Apparently White took in a few Canadiens games prior to UFC 83 in Montreal (held in April) and was so impressed with the on ice pugilism he that he immediately realized that his multi-million dollar mixed martial arts circuit was substandard.

Seeking out and employing former NHL heavyweights like Bob Probert and Clark Gillies, White went on a heavy training regimen concocted by his new Hall Of Fame brawlers. After teaching White to skate, they moved on to refine squaring off techniques as well as jerseying. Unbelievably, within a few months White had accelerated so rapidly that the two felt he was ready for the show.

"It was a natural transition for me," announced White, "All I've done for the last 20 years is watch fighters do their thing. The biggest pain in the ass was trying to keep it off the ice, as I bailed about 40 000 times, but once I was able to skate end to end the rest came naturally."

The Habs front office is banking on it. Looking to "westernize" their squad even further, the team hopes to intimidate even the likes of Philadelphia with the new White/LaRoque tandem. There's still a lot of work to be done, as White now has to learn basic puck handling, but he feels he'll be ready when the puck drops on on the 08/09 Season.

But will the rest of the east?



"Watch out or I'll Youppie your ass."

PROUD NEW PAPI

Hey kiddies;

Big news from the Sugar Shack. There's been an addition to the household!

Arriving at about 5:45 on Sunday afternoon, the First Mate and I proudly opened our front door and carried in our new delivery. Thankfully we'd prepped the house already with some minor rearrangements beforehand, so now it was just a question of unwrapping and gently placing the bundle down.

I couldn't help but just sit down afterwards and stare. Not saying anything to one another, the amazement that washed over us could not be expressed verbally. Just mouths agape, almost telepathically communicating one simple phrase:

"Wow... this is really ours???"

People always say that you don't truly understand until you have one of your own, and I couldn't agree more. For years and years I'd look at other people's with wide eyes, thinking "when is the time going to be right for me?"

Well, it turns out the time is now. Needless to say my world has changed entirely, and I'll certainly be looking at things in a brand new way.

Just take a look. Isn't it beautiful??

- The Skip

Slugging Percentage

Looks like Ozzy and southsiders got into a dustup before surrendering first place in the former div to beat. Well at least AJ took a couple off his ridiculously blond dome. Let's take a peek.



If I was Olivo, I don't know if I'd clock AJ first or Swisher.

Bombs A-Way

I've been skating sidewalks on this planet more years of my life than not. However, much like surfers, I have transitioned over the last few years to a more "fluid" style of riding. Read: more leisurely longboard cruising and much less body destroying hardcore street sessioning. Not because of age or desire mind you. It was that damn injury bug that sidelined me from the land of repeated 360 flip attempts and 5-0 grinds. Hence my entrance into the world of downhill carving and Sunday seawall skating.

Of course the sport of board skating itself has only gotten larger in scope in ever facet. From gaining mainstream acceptance to the sheer ridiculousness of courses built to the skill needed to navigate through one of these neo X-monstrosities while retaining all one's limbs. That's why it was nice to see these pros - who I remember from Thrasher Mags in the late '80's- not only still competing but launching some of the most ludicrously Knievel-esque rockets over the gap at X-Games 14. This ain't doing some backside boneless in your driveway. Observe:

BJ Blows It. So Does Manny.

You could hear me rant about the six run lead that we blew in Arlington accompanied by the three run ninth inning meltdown resulting in a blown save for BJ and a 9-8 final to the Rangers.

But I'd rather not bitch.

Or you could hear me go on about the JP's front office antics (or lack thereof) which resulted in no big bat added to the Jays lineup for the remainder of the '08 season. While Jason Bay was mentioned, it appeared the Pittsburgh was asking for the deed to the house and the keys to the car as they wanted Marcum and minor league out fielding phenom, Travis Snider.

Ok fine. But how we weren't able to wrangle Raul Freakin' Ibanez away from the Mariners is beyond me. JP has painted it like we Seattle backed away at the last minute, but maybe the problem is something else. Maybe he just doesn't know how to deal.

I could expand. But I'd rather my blood pressure stay at a healthy 120/80.

So let's talk about Manny instead.

Did he do the right thing? Has he been acting like an elite Big Leaguer lately? Absolutely not. When you're making a bazillion dollars and decide not to show up for a couple of games because you're mad at the front office, something ain't right. Putting the squad and fans through this nonsense isn't the "Manny being Manny" making a phone call from the Green Monster.

This is Manny being stupid.

His constant media pissing and moaning and refusal to play makes the former "Idiot" look just like that. And not in the endearing way. Ramirez's actions as of late have made him look selfish and ultimately tarnish his legacy in Boston. I mean look at Roy Halladay. If anyone should be hanging up their cleats every second start it should be him as he's been promised a contending Blue Jays squad every year only to get overpriced, poorly assessed talent from GM, JP Ricciardi. But how does Roy handle it? By going out and pitching his heart out every single start thus leading the Bigs in complete games and having another Cy Young worthy season.

Manny's shenanigans are what I would expect out of A-Rod.

But what's done is done. How will he fare in Dodgers Stadium?

Let's put it like this. If he doesn't finish the season with over 40 dongs this season I might think he's mildly retarded. (Yes, he sits at 20 now with exactly two months to play but he's now playing in the Quadruple A National League West where they sometimes pitch underhanded.) He will absolutely demolish divisional pitching.

Also, for some inane reason reason he's wearing number 99, which should be retired not just in the NHL but in every pro sport. Would Wayne ever decide not to lace up because he was having problems with Peter Pocklington? Of course he wouldn't. He'd go out and set the record for most consecutive hat tricks or something equally as silly.

All in all while I've traditionally been a huge Manny supporter, these latest diva slugger antics are not helping him enter the Maniwaki Hall Of Fame.


...Ok. Blood pressure raised agian. Not good. I don't know how I'm going to survive another two months of this. This season could quite possibly kill me.

There's only one 99. In LA or anywhere.