I dreamed of Sachin

I am in Atlanta on a business trip for a few days. Had a great barbecue dinner and 2 beers. Not sure if it was the beers, the tiredness from a long day, the great food, the strange hotel bed, or a combination of all of these, but just before I woke up I dreamed of Sachin.

Now, I am not the type of guy who does this on a regular basis. I rarely if ever dream about famous people I admire, so this was a bit of a surprise. I think the Mumbai Indians loss in the IPL finals has been playing on my mind - even though Dhoni won, which is great, the fact is that Sachin lost after almost singe handedly playing his team into the finals. As the final moments of the game were playing out, I remember the TV cameras catching Sachin sitting alone in the dressing room with a pained look on his face. I felt really sad seeing that haunted look, and that must have been playing on my mind.

Anyway, he was wearing his India colors. Not the whites or the old light blue ones, but the new dark blue and orange colors. It was the two of us, and a strange girl who was neither his wife nor mine. I was interviewing him, and we had a nice long conversation. Mostly we talked about the next year, and the upcoming world cup. Now when I am awake, like most dream conversations the things we discussed are faded from memory, but I remember we talked about his preparation and his desire to win the world cup. I think we talked about how players like Sehwag and Zak are on the record about wanting to win it for him. We might have discussed the advantage of home grounds and the role played by the home crowd in boosting the Mumbai Indians team's performance in the IPL. He talked about the world cup finals and how he will prepare himself for the tournament.

Towards the end, he got up and went to the other room (I think it was the inner room of a Hotel suite, and he went to the other room where there were more people). I smiled and winked at the strange girl who had been giggling throughout our conversation, and said,"look, now Boss will give me a politically correct answer." Just then Sachin walked back in and heard my comment. He smiled as he sat down and asked what I was going to ask him. Since we had talked about the world cup and his plans for the finals, I wanted to ask him if he thought we had a realistic chance of making the finals. If the team was good enough in his opinion. So I asked that question and he sat there and laughed. Then I woke up. It was disappointing. I wish I had stayed asleep a little longer so I could have his reply. 

I do remember that even in my dream some of his answers were politically correct. The man cannot speak freely even in a dream!

Anyway, the last weekend was the IPL finals. This coming weekend (05/01) India plays Afghanistan and then South Africa on consecutive days in their league stage matches in the 20/20 World Cup. I am traveling with a few friends to St. Lucia to watch the games. We are trying to set up a TFC Kings game on 05/08 and another one on 05/29. As things materialize I will keep everyone posted. Cheers!

IPL 2010 summed up

A tweet by eyepeeyell today - "Fuck your statistical analysis. Mumbai are top of the table because God plays for them."

BTW, if you are not following the IPL via twitter, you need to, specially this eyepeeyell guy. Laugh out loud funny all the time. Another gem today - "If Gayle continues sweeping like this, Shiney Ahuja will soon make a pass at him"

OR

"Q: How do you know when Yuvraj Singh is hungry? A: His eyes are open."

AND, if you are as stunned by the badness of the bad commentary in this IPL, 

"The difference between this commentary team and men in porn movies is this - men in porn movies are a necessary evil."

I swear, you need to read this guy while watching a game to fully get your money's worth out of the IPL.