More Møøse in pinstripes!

(And no more Thorpedo)

Much as it pains me to admit that there is still baseball being played without my beloved Yankees, there is a question I must ask: How the #$%^ does the Kenny Rogers who stunk up the joint as both a Yankee and Met manage to suddenly throw 20+ scoreless innings this postseason at age 41? I mean, seriously.

What went wrong?

“The whole plane has a parachute on it,” Lidle said. “Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you’re up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.”

We shall speak no more of how $200 million can still buy disappointment. Or, for that matter, of Michel Gondry's disturbing ability to make one empathize with a character who builds a 1 second time machine and a disasterology calendar ( Read more... )

There will be much split-screenage of ESPN, Lost, and South Park tonight. Sure, I could just listen to the Yankee game on the radio, but it's not the same :-p

Man, that was one crazy day of baseball...520 minutes between two games, to be precise, including the longest 9 inning game in MLB history. And I listened to radio announcer John Sterling butcher way too much of it :-p But in any event, Johnny Damon is awesome and the Yankees gained two games on the Sox. W00t!

Today is Jenny's 16th birthday, which also happens to be the anniversary of the death of one George Herman Ruth. In a strange twist, today was also the groundbreaking ceremony on the new Yankee Stadium, a replacement for the House that Ruth Built, scheduled to open in 2009 ( Read more... )

Cheers to Floyd Landis, for winning the Tour de France despite that nastily-named osteonecrosis ravaging his hip. Not quite in the same league as winning 7 straight times after cancer attacks your brain, but a decent encore.

Jeers to Sidney "drunken Knight of Aruba" Ponson, for giving up 8 runs on 3 home runs in the 3rd inning of today's Yankees

It should be noted that Barry Bonds does not appear in All-Star Baseball 2005, because he is not a member of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Instead of him, the San Francisco Giants have a make believe player named "Wes Mailman".
~Wikipedia
Why is this of interest? Wes Mailman was one of the designers of the All-Star series for ( Read more... )

The fact that the Yankees are missing both corners of their outfield until at least September, their centerfielder has been playing with a broken foot for a month, their captain can only DH because his thumb is injured, their regular DH is out for a few days with an injured hand, their catcher can't run because he has a torn tendon in his knee, one ( Read more... )