Segregation 5, Brown 4/Cleveland 4, Oakland 3

I love these day games, but today was difficult. The Supreme Court cases on race in K-12 school assignments came out today. 185 pages of opinion, the upshot being that Brown v. Board of Education has been reduced to an empty husk, by five justices who, licking their chops, did nothing but cite Brown v. Board of Education in the process.

Humph.

In any event, I was up to my neck in those 185 pages — a work fire drill culminating in a meeting at 2:00 with my boss, to discuss the holdings.

I had radio coverage of the game on at work today, but I had to leave the office for that 2:00 meeting — in the bottom of the seventh, with two men on and a pitching change in the works. I wanted to wait to see what we did, but I had to go. When I got back the door to my office was closed, and I knew we had tied or taken the lead. Why? My deductive powers: the only reason someone might have closed my door, with me not inside, was that some noise was emanating from my office. What noise could that have been, other than Hammy screaming at the top of his lungs about something good happening? And so I was right. I sat down, brought up the Gameday screen, and we were up 4-3 in the ninth.

So notwithstanding our Supreme Court's precipitious descent into outright fascism this week, the day wasn't all bad.