Todays number: 18

'brought to you by the letters T, B and by the no 18". (and no i'm not going to continue with this...)

Out on a boat cruise round Toronto harbour area last night with the firm, including dinner and all the free drink i could manage - was a good night, and hopefully have some photos, which will be my next plan for this page.

Having drunk til 130 on a rooftop bar near the harbour, got a (firm paid) taxi back and turned on my TV - no idea why - to see what was on. It was on the sports tv station going through the results of the nights baseball games.

Toronto Bluejays playing Los Angeles Angels. The game lasts 9 innings. Unless they draw. Then they play more innings until there is a winner. After 8 innings, the score was 0-0, but a flurry of activity presumably was responsible for the game being 'tied at 1 at the bottom of the 9th' as they say here.

Then a flurry of inactivity. The additional innings continued until the 18th innings, when Toronto scored a run to take a 2-1 lead. Since LA had already had their 18th bat, the game was over. The longest match in Bluejay history.

So there you go. 18 innings. EACH. And the score was 2-1. And thats not even home runs, thats just for people getting round the circle.... Sunday's game has got to be better than that surely...