Yes, I realize the horrible irony of confusing Islam and Israel. Might as well confuse Yankees with Red Sox, left with right, Quantitative Analysis with my undergrad GPA. Thankfully the confusion hasn't surfaced vocally, just visually. Still, you have no idea how strange it is to read about how the Jews are at war with "Israel."
Anyway back to the events of this weekend...
- The power went out on me. Twice. In two different cities. The first was Friday at my house. Solution: two hours at Barnes & Nobles. Next was at Brian's apartment on Saturday, coming back with him and Bear from dinner and Hollywood Video. Solution: sneaking back to our old stomping grounds, the Wake Forest campus, to watch Munich in a classroom in Calloway.
- David Ortiz knocked in his 100th and 101st RBI of the season on Sunday. It's not even August yet.
- It's that time of the year, when the Yankees trade for a high-priced All-Star to fill their gaps. This time it's in the form of Bobby Abreu, pushing the team salary to roughly 200 trillion dollars.
- The Phillies then decided to throw in a starting pitcher just for the hell of it.
- But hey, who needs All-Stars when you can trade for a relief pitcher even I've never heard of! At least he didn't allow any hits between 1998 and 2006. And he even played (an inning).
- I've never been so happy to see the return of a pitcher with an ERA over 8. Anyone remember back in spring training when I noticed Boston had seven options for their starting rotation? Well, recently the Sox have been down to just two of the original seven: Beckett and Schilling. The Others? Arroyo was traded, Clement, Wells and Wakefield got hurt, and Papelbon turned into an All-World closer.
PS- I mistype "pitcher" as "picther" almost invariably, so I've noticed that eblogger's spell check doesn't even have "pitcher" as a suggestion, but it does have "victory" and "peachtree". Seriously, does it look to you like I'm trying to spell "PEACHTREE!?"
Also, I've told it to learn "Ortiz" about 500 times.
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Yes! Another unsuspecting sap purchases a Creative MP3 player! j/k. I like mine a lot, and it's purchase qualifies as open rebellion against Apple. Fun times.
Yeah, those are about the two worst things to mistake for each other, falling just short of the KKK and the NAACP.
Power going out ain't cool. Just ask the like million people here who lost power a couple weeks ago.
Ortiz rocks.
Yankees suck. Seriously, their payroll for next year has to be near 250 million, while the Marlins are spending 15 mil to almost be a .500 team.
It's a good thing you had 7 starters. We've been through 7 so far. It's awesome to have those seasons where only 5 guys get all the starts (like 2004 for us), but that rarely happens. You can never have too many starters.
Oh yeah, our starting peachtree and our relief victory have been terrible recently...
BTW, have I told you that Luna for Belliard is a bad deal? I'm gonna watch him play tonight and see how bad we messed up. All I know is that Luna has started the last 2 games for Cleveland (including tonight). We'd better sign him to a nice cheap 3-year deal like NOW.
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