In the evening, Amy and I went out for dinner at Charleys on Newbury Street -- woohoo, we had a babysitter.  On the way to the restaurant, I pointed out a silver colored Mercedes Benz to Amy and asked her what she thought as the 2001 Odyssey is supposed to be available in a new brighter silver.  She liked it; in fact, she asked if the wait for the Odyssey would be any longer were we to switch our color choice from dark emerald pearl (i.e., dark green) to silver.  Oy vay.  As we ate our dinner outside along the sidewalk, we discussed many things and enjoyed the perfect weather and the people watching (and of course the eavesdropping on conversations by the younger set sitting at tables near us).  One of our conversations was about the color silver for a minivan -- see, it ain't over til it's over,  Amy liked the silver color on the Mercedes.  I told her that the silver on the Odyssey may not be as good because Mercedes has an awesome silver paint color.  I wished that I had kept my mouth closed as I felt some relief in having finally placed the order for an Odyssey.  Still, Amy deserves full information and as I have mentioned before, silver might be darn good color for a minivan -- as long as it is a good bright silver, not a grayish toned silver.  It is remarkeable to me that the 2001 Odyssey is not available in red, black or blue (blue was available for the 1999 and 2000 model years).
 

Luis Castillo RBI Watch (Through August 21, 2000)

Number of Hits......Batting Average......Number of RBI......Runs Scored
......142.......................357............................9........................79

Luis went 2-4, however the Marlins  got blanked by the San Francisco Giants 6-0.  He leadoff the first inning by striking out (looking).  In the third inning, with two out and no one base, he grounded out to the second baseman.  In the sixth inning with one out, Luis singled to left field.  In the eighth inning, again with one out and no on base, he got on with a bunt single down the third base line (a dying art).  (These data are obtained from ESPN.com.)