Sunday's schedule

It's just past 4 a.m., and I'm forcing myself to go to sleep.

My job allows me to sleep from about 5 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. each day, but that messes up my schedule on Sundays when I'm heading to the church house. I'll wake up at 10:20 a.m. for 11 a.m. services having only received about five hours of sleep.

After tomorrow morning's 11 o'clock service at Mobberly Baptist, I'll either eat lunch with a friend or rush home to watch my beloved Atlanta Braves on TBS HD. Since The SuperStation quit carrying about half of Hotlanta's games starting with this season, I've been seriously deprived of watching the baseball team I was bred to adore. I believe Hank Aaron is the greatest baseball player ever, and stand by my conviction that I'd rather have Greg Maddux starting for me than any other pitcher in baseball history.

However, if Kelly Johnson continues to boot would-be-game-ending ground balls to second base with two outs in the ninth inning, I don't know how bad I'll want to see Los Bravos. Friday night's fiasco was absurd. Tim Hudson pitched 7 2/3 innings, allowing only one earned run, to get a no decision because some two-bit second baseman with a penchant for catastrophic errors decided to take a dump on the infield dirt between first and second bases with the game on the line.

After eating/watching the Braves, I'll sit around for a while before my dad and brother drive over to watch the Lakers and Celtics in Game 2. I know what you're wondering: Does your family not believe in TV? My family couldn't be farther from that concept. Everything in my parents' house is arranged so it is pointing toward one of the four TVs that inhabit it.

My folks have Dish Network, which recently dropped KTBS 3 out of Shreveport, the ABC affiliate. Since Carthage is much closer to the Port City than Tyler, Carthaginians only get Shreveport stations. I always like that growing up because Tyler looks down on everybody anyway. Dish and KTBS have some disagreement over a contract, so Dish just dropped them. Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous.

So we'll watch my TV - a 34-inch HDTV, mind you - as LA steals Game 2 in Boston.

After that, I'll probably just sit around for several hours until I get tired enough to limp (played two and a half hours of fullcourt basketball Thursday) to my bed and pass out.

Holler at y'all tomorrow. Or today. However you look at it.