My cousin, Kevin, called me yesterday and invited me to today's Cubs game, tickets courtesy of Steve Alf and St. Charles Toyota.

It was an amazing game (Cubs 4, White Sox 3, courtesy of a 9th inning Ramirez walk-off bomb), and we had a marvelous time.

Kevin: I'm making it my goal for this game to not high five a Castaneda.

He achieved this goal, which made for some awkard moments in which the grinning Castaneda man would turn around and I would have to bite the bullet and give him the five; this seemed to satisfy his need to share celebration with like-minded fans.