Yankees!

Yesterday, my favorite baseball team won the world championship! The New York Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 4-2 in the best-of-seven World Series to win their 27th world championship.

You can criticize me all you want for choosing the Yankees as my favorite team. But as far as I'm concerned, I'm a baseball fan free agent, seeing as there is no Major League Baseball team in Salt Lake City. The Yanks have the biggest payroll and offered me the best chance at happiness, so I signed a contract with them. I give them my allegiance, and they give me a bunch of championships.

I hope that this breaks open the floodgates for my other favorite teams to win championships. But I am afraid that my efforts at cheering for the Utah Jazz are ultimately fruitless.

At any rate, I post a link today honoring the popular folk song "Yankee Doodle." I particularly enjoyed seeing how many verses there actually are. It would take ten minutes to sing this song. Here it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Doodle

To make this song even more special for me, I oftentimes sing it to my 10-month-old son Parker, but I change it to sing "Parky Doodle" or "Sparky Doodle" . I am not exactly sure why I do this, but I do it all the time.

I do the same thing to my 2-year-old son Hayden, only I sing his name to the "Banana-Fana" song. Again, I don't know why this has almost become a daily habit.