Rant #2,459: Happiness Street

I am not walking on Happiness Street today ... what can you say about how the New York Yankees' season ended on Saturday night?

After finally tying the win-in-or-go-home sixth game of the American League Championship Series with the Houston Astros in the top of the inning on a two-run homer by D.J. Lemahieu, they lost the game on another homer, this one by the Astros' Jose Altuve.

This walk-off homer sent the Yankees home and the Astros to the World Series against the upstart Washington Nationals.

Admittedly, I was using the playoffs as my time to get away from my own problems, and with the Yankees out of the playoffs, I don't have that crutch to lean on anymore.

I wish the Astros well against the Nationals, I pretty much want them to win, but do I have a real rooting interest in the proceedings?

No I don't.

Now I move on to basketball, and if you know New York basketball, you know that it begins and ends with the New York Knicks, the worst run, most inept team in professional sports.

They have been so bad for so long--and show absolutely no signs of being better than the 17-65 team that somehow got through last season--that my rooting interest is there, but poisoned with the expectation and realization that they will lose just about every game that they play.

The Brooklyn Nets will certainly steal a lot of on the fence Knicks fans this season and in the coming seasons, as they signed superstars Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant to monster contracts this off season, and even though Durant won't play this season as he mends from a major injury, in all likelihood, the Nets should probably triple the Knicks win total when it is all said and done, and perhaps compete for the NBA championship.

The Knicks will fill Madison Square Garden like they always do, but they won't put smiles on too many faces this season.

And if I was a football fan, I would have already cut my throat with the performance of the Jets and Giants. Thankfully, I don't have to go through that, simply because I don't care about football, nor hockey.

My sports are baseball and basketball, and the indignity of it all ... well, at least the Yankees gives fans hope. The Knicks? They give fans agita.

As for me, today is a busy day, as I have a job fair to go to.

I am not that keen on such fairs, as they are much like cattle calls, and they are even getting more so with technology. Some companies at these things actually appear, actually take the time to be represented at these gatherings, but they will not take your paper resume. They tell you to go online to fill out an application.

Talk about indignity! You are there, you are talking with them face to face, and they won't even take your resume ... what is the point of physically being there if you won't take the resume that I took the time to print out?

Hopefully, I won't run into such behavior, but I certainly did when I took my son to these things to look for work--and those gatherings were geared at challenged workers. I can only wonder what the behavior will be at a job fair like I am going to.

But I will keep an open mind, but be wary at the possible circumstances.

I do so want to be surprised. I have gone to these things in the past in my own working life, and I have found them to be not that beneficial.

But at this point, I have nothing to lose.

If nothing more, it is simply another notch on my belt, another way I have tried to look for work, another experience that maybe won't be that bad.

The phrase is, "You gotta have heart," but in my case, "You gotta have hope."

And I sure do.