Baseball. Why?

I don't pretend to understand baseball. I don't want to. I just think the phrase "taking the mound" is really funny.

Friday, June 09, 2006
Late Rally too Little Too Late


After many frusturating hours on my host site, all the technical issues have been resolved. We were unable to provide posts and updates, but we are now back online.

Tonight Randy Johnson took the mound against the Oakland Athletics in New York and it wasn't good.
The Big Unit was hit for six runs, five earned, in four innings as the A's took the first game in this series.
Yankees were trailing 6-2 until after a one hour and 27 minute rain delay during the seventh seventh inning. The rally started when Jason Giambi hit a three-run home run and Robinson Cano hit an RBI triple to cut the lead to one, but it wasn't enough as the Athletic's bullpen held onto the lead for the win.

Up Next:
Athletics @ Yankees 1:20 EST
Kirk Saarloos (2-4, 5.04 ERA) vs. Mike Mussina (8-1, 2.67 ERA)

Red Sox Update:
Sox defeated the Rangers to take over first in the East.

PATR Update:
We have just completed the 1911 season. So far they are undefeated on the following dates:
April 14
May 19
Oct 1
They have not had a defeated day of the year.

"They have not had a defeated day of the year?"

That's not even English, is it?

In one small sidebar...

"I am a twentysomething Alaskan living in Fairbanks. We call the little icicles that stick to my poodle Bobby's fur when he plays outside Pupsickles, hence the name of the blog."

Sheer genius. I read this in a sidebar at Pupsickle. Don't ask what I was doing there - I surfed in entirely by accident. This blog is bad. But then I got thinking, maybe writing a blog with a sidebar this awful is actually a tool to make people stay a little longer.

I'm actually incredulous at just how anyone could:

1. Own a poodle called Bobby


2. Admit to owning a poodle called Bobby


3. Name the icicles that stick to his fur


4. Admit to naming the icicles that stick to his fur


5. Name a blog after the name that you give the icicles that stick to your poodle's fur, and finally


6. Admit that you named your blog after the name that you give the icicles that stick to your poodle's fur.

And it kept me there, wondering if things could possibly get any worse.

Right on cue:

"My dogs have a blog"

Really? Well, I'm guessing they write more of it than the similar canine literary geniuses such as Ashley Simpson and Pamela Anderson wrote of their recent offerings, but even so?
Don't the icicles - SORRY - "Pupsickles" - melt on the keyboard?

The chick that writes this blog looks quite sweet, though her other half looks a bit scary. In fact, he looks like a bit of a genetic throwback. Even with a peanut head. (The fact that they live in Alaska, while Trollmeister HQ is hidden deep in a mountain in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh means that I can say this in pretty much complete safety.)

Sadly though, her cute appearance doesn't make up for the dreadful blog.

You will have noticed that I haven't tackled the peach font yet. That's because every time I think about it, I vomit all over my... oh crap - there I go again....