This is more or less exactly what I was trying to say....And yeah, they're rich they can afford to buy refundable tickets, I could care less about that but just the idea that they MIGHT be worried about getting out of town as soon as humanly possible in the event we lost didn't sit too well. I wouldn't have cared less if it had happened after the game...hell, there may only be one flight a day from Chicago to the Dominican or something like that, and I don't blame them for wanting to get on it...but the idea of them making arrangements for Sunday before they even played the game on Saturday rubbed me wrong. Why? Do you seriously think they planned on losing, or hoped to lose? Or did they maybe-GASP- just want to make sure that if they did lose, they could see their families ASAP instead of having to wait by themselves an extra day thinking about getting swept? Never once did I say they hoped to lose. It does bother me they were thinking about it and planning for that contingency though. Like I said in an earlier post.... I wouldn't have minded at all if they looked into it and bought the tickets right after the game...but worrying about losing and making sure they're on a plane out of town 10 hours after the game was over, before it even started, does rub me the wrong way. You have a long future ahead of you as a sports columnist, congratulations.