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There's a girl with a crown and a scepter
Who's on WLSD
And she says that the scene isn't what it's been
And she's thinking of going home
That it's old and it's totally over now
And it's old and it's over, it's over now
And it's over, it's over, it's over now
I can see myself

At the end of the tour
When the road disappears
If there's any more people around
When the tour runs aground
And if you're still around
Then we'll meet at the end of the tour
The engagements are booked through the end of the world
So we'll meet at the end of the tour

Never to part since the day we met
Out on Interstate 91
I was bent metal you were a flaming wreck
When we kissed at the overpass
I was sailing along with the people
Driving themselves to distraction inside me
Then came a knock on the door which was odd
And the picture abruptly changed

At the end of the tour
When the road disappears
If there's any more people around
When the tour runs aground
And if you're still around
Then we'll meet at the end of the tour
The engagements are booked through the end of the world
So we'll meet at the end of the tour

This was the vehicle these were the people
You opened the door and expelled all the people
This was the vehicle these were the people
You opened the door and expelled all the people
This was the vehicle these were the people
You let them go

At the end of the tour
When the road disappears
If there's any more people around
When the tour runs aground
And if you're still around
Then we'll meet at the end of the tour
The engagements are booked through the end of the world
So we'll meet at the end of the tour
And we're never gonna tour again
No, we're never gonna tour again

The lyrics above are from the last track of They Might Be Giants' John Henry CD. Why do I include them here?

1. "End of the Tour" -- end of the season? Isn't the parallel obvious?
2. Repeated accident imagery -- end of the D-Backs' 2004 season? Isn't the parallel obvious?
3. It's just a gratuitous They Might Be Giants reference.

So here we are after a weekend that, were this the opening weekend, would be greeted with relative happiness. Win the series against a good, young Padres squad. Decent offense, shaky defense, and some fine pitching. I mean, c'mon, that's what we -- what everybody -- expected from Brandon Webb this year. Not a single walk. 4 strikeouts. 81 pitches in 7 innings of work. Even when he got in trouble in, what, the 4th inning, he managed to extricate himself with just one run scored without collapsing like he had in other situations this year. That's definitely something to hang his cap on and for us to get excited about heading into the offseason.

Three homeruns? Sure, we'll take that from a team that exhibited very, very little power this year.

In the end, 4-1 D-Backs over the Padres, ending 51-111 for the year.

So they made it. We all made it. Tired, a little bit cranky, but we crossed the finish line.

I'll talk a little bit about the playoffs tomorrow...