I don’t bitch about work much on here. But damn it! Why does one of our biggest clients have to have a fricking crisis on the first night of the Sox-Yankees ALCS? 30 minutes to game time, and here I sit waiting. Grrrrr.
I’ll bet you are behind this.
I hope you stick yourself with one of those voodoo doll pins. That’d teach ya.
Doing their part to keep the dream sequence alive, the Houston Astros won (or, as ESPN put it, the Braves lost). Congrats to them on their first ever playoff series win.
I remember the 1980 NLCS as being one of the first times I ever paid any attention to a National League series. Back then, if the Sox weren’t in it, I didn’t care who the hell won.
The Astros were all about pitching and speed (and orange-striped uniforms). They had Nolan Ryan, who’d just finished striking out his 3,000th victim, and Joe Morgan. Against them was the only team of the originals that had never won a World Series: the Philadelphia Phillies. They had Steve Carlton, Mike Schmidt, Greg Luzinski, Tug McGraw and Pete Rose.
Four of the five games (it was a 5-game series then) went to extra innings. It was great baseball.
Anyway… where the hell was I? Oh yeah! Dream sequence.
Well, since the Red Sox have made it to the playoffs, I’m going through my usual dream matchups. Last year, it was a Sox-Cubs World Series. (Shut up.) This year, it’s a series of unfortunate events. They gave California (sorry, Anaheim) a chance for revenge for 1986. Now, they get to beat the Yankees for the AL Championship. And with Houston’s win, it’s set up for a chance to kick Roger Clemens’ ass in the World Series. (Although, having the two original Boston franchises, the Sox and the Braves, would have been fine. As would a 1967 re-match with the Cardinals–this time without Bob Gibson, thank God.)
In gearing up for phase two of operation SOX WIN! SOX WIN!, Peat the Evil Yankee Lover and I have decided to make a bet. If the Sox win, I get to use his site for a week for whatever nefarious purpose I wish. I can do all the posting over there at DiVERSiONZ, or I can turn it into a Red Sox shrine. The same goes here.
So, dear readers, you’d better be pulling for the Sox. Because if they lose, expect to see this site turned into a porn site for a week (either that or a Yankee shrine… same diff).
In Afghanistan this weekend, millions of people came out to vote. And while it may not be the perfect picture of an election, they did it with opponents threatening to kill them. Vote and die. Think about that when your only excuse is “I don’t have time.”
Now, name this country…
The women were innocent and defenseless. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.
They beat one of them, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. They hurled another into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate thought she was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.
For weeks, the women’s only water came from an open pail. Their food–all of it colorless slop–was infested with worms. When one of the leaders embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.*
Whoa. A couple of shockers this morning. Christopher Reeve and Ken Caminiti died yesterday.
Well, last week weren’t so good for the football-hatin’ football picker (7-7). It was, however, a veddy, veddy good week for the baseball fan (GO SOX!!)
Hey, I’m still 39-19. So, this week, I am bucking the odds and picking quite a few underdogs, including Cleveland, Detroit, New York (Giants), Arizona and Tampa. Will this be my first losing week? Yeah, probably. Whatever.
Oh, did I mention this? 2-0, baybee! GO SOX!!
The Blogger Boobiethon is heading into its final days needing only a couple of hundred dollars to match last year’s goal. So far, they’ve made almost $7,000 for breast cancer research. Amazing! Go and make a donation and put them over the top.
“Unlike Cheney, Edwards is not spending today explaining any falsehoods.” – Boston Globe
“Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I’m up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they’re in session.” – Dick Cheney
Kos has a list of all the presiding officer of the Senate on every Tuesday since 2001. Guess what? John Edwards has been acting president of the Senate at least as many times (twice) as Dick Cheney.
Yet another perk of having a friend in the book-selling biz is having her bring back goodies from conventions. She brought the kids a whole bunch of manga (one of everything… apparently, half the stuff at the show was anime), and some other books of interest for Mrs. R and the young Rasreths.
Any idea what I should make of the fact that she brought me a copy of The Know-It-All?
Remember how I told you April Winchell is God and how easily distracted I am? I’m sure you hadn’t noticed…
As part of that “distracted” post, I wrote that I saw on Paul Winchell’s site where he claims to have invented the artificial heart. I never did find the truth of the matter. However, if you put stuff like this out on the internet, then be prepared for it to be found, friends. I got an e-mail from Stacy Winchell (April’s brother) about it!
