Playoffs perfect for fans, friends

Take me out to the ball game.

-- Jack Norworth

I have to tell you Wednesday night's Augusta GreenJackets playoff games might have been the best game I've seen here in a long time.

Beautiful night, great pitching and best of all the first win in this year's playoffs. Hopefully they can finish off Asheville in tonight's game, and we can get ready for the Sally League's championship.

It was also good to see all the regulars: Ernest Odom , Bob Gleason and Jimmy Melton , and those of you who came up to introduce yourselves and remind me that you'd sent in a vacation postcard.

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SPEAKING OF WHICH: The postcards have stacked up.

Butch and Mary Gay , Carolyn Thompson , Billy and Francis Stevens and David and Jeanette Simpson send a card from Las Vegas. They won't say what they're doing because "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."

(Probably a church mission trip.)

The Golden Age Group -- Rena , Bob and Skeeter , are having a blast at Edisto Beach.

Pat and Wayne Fuller , of North Augusta, are in Memphis, Tenn., where they say the trolley is a good way to get around. They also sent a card from Cullman, Ala.

Sorrells and Bell say hi from California. June and Susan Glisson say hello from Scotland, on their way to Ireland.

Evelyn Casey is spending a few days in Hilton Head, S.C.

Robert and Jody send a funny card from Iowa. They say the corn and soybeans are looking good. Their card shows some cute, little pigs. Craig Hemrick is also in Iowa, having a good time.

Celinda and Danny are really having a great time on the Erie Canal.

Dot Farr , of Thomson, sends a beautiful card showing Georgia peaches.

Dave and Rena Turner , of Grovetown, are having a great time in the Smoky Mountains.

Ann and Ernie McFerrin send a nice card from Utah. So did Sue Ellen and Laura from MCG, who say their plane got stuck in Salt Lake City on a flight to Boise.

Dan and Kath Scukanec were watching the whales off the San Juan Islands.

Simon Medcalfe sends a card and asks: "If drinking alone is the first sign of alcoholism, is eating alone the first sign of obesity?"

He also shares a postcard that shows a Washington Road sign touting the nearing miles of fast-food places and strip malls as "Savannah River Scenic Hwy."

Is this irony?" he asks.

Probably not, Simon, but it is misnamed: You can't see the Savannah River and it's hardly scenic.

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TODAY'S JOKE: The boss came in early one morning and found his manager kissing his beautiful secretary.

He shouted at him, "Is this what I pay you for?"

"No, sir!" the manager replied. "I'm doing this free of charge."

Reach Bill Kirby at (706) 823-3344 or bill.kirby@augustachronicle.com.