The Best Trips Are Those Not Taken

I was going to be there this week.Yup, Pittsburgh. It was on my calendar.Thankfully, scheduling conflicts, booked up hotel rooms and most of all, general laziness kept me home for the Mets four game trip in Pittsburgh. So as down as I am about this team, the good news is that I could have been there to see it in person. Score one for laziness.Because what would I have seen in Pittsburgh? J.J. Putz get hammered? Johan Santana getting no run support? Mike Pelfrey get hammered? J.J. Putz get hammered again? I could see all of that with a 20 minute train ride.And a rainout to boot, which means that this baseball series, that the God you pray to has clearly forsaken, isn't going to end until July 2nd. A month long hell ride? Great. At least I wasn't there. Airplane tickets on Jet Blue: $80.Tickets to four games: $80.Four games worth of Primanti Brothers burgers: $30Scalped ticket to a Stanley Cup Final: $300Not spending any of that money and missing out on all the fun and misery ...