Playoff Weeknd

Hello from Long Island! I may be a few hundred miles away, and I may have managed to get away with my wife for a couple of days while leaving my son at my in-laws, but I know that there is a very important slate of games going on this weekend back in DC.

I also know that it's been much hotter in DC, than in the Hamptons. That on-shore breeze is amazing at "Road D" Beach. The picture was taken Monday afternoon. I know the answer is usually "NO", but wouldn't it have been nice to be on Monday?

Anyway, there is good news for the weekend. The tremendous heat that has been across the mid-Atlantic will be leaving and by the weekend, a much kinder and gentler air mass will be around.

I expect a front to clear the area out by the end of the work week, so the weekend will feature highs in the 80s. Perhaps only in the lower 80s on Saturday. Rain chances also appear to be quite low. Unless that front gets hung up and doesn't get as far south as I'm thinking, the weather should not be a problem.

In case I don' t post again, and I won't if I don't see any changes, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone in the league for all of the fun and camaraderie. We (WUSA) only won twice this year, twice more than in 2006, but I still enjoyed myself.

I hope that we can make some accommodation with start times next June on the first Saturday, so as to make it easier to field a team following "Race For The Cure". I also hope that we can win a few more games.

Good luck to the playoff teams this weekend and I hope that everyone stays healthy, and employed, so that we can do it all again in 2008!