Wierd Al's "White & Nerdy." There's at least 4 scenes that made me think of The Big Man.

Giambi vs. the shift

good article from the NY Times on the shift that Giambi, Ortiz, Delgado, Thome, etc. face from many teams. What they didn't mention was that Jeter has taken advantage of 3Bs who are slow to get back to the bag by racing from 1st to 3rd on singles or fielders choices.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/sports/baseball/08shift.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Bo Knows Tecmo

Fair readers (yes, the 4 of you), I offer you two minutes of greatness. It's not book reviews of modern day Jane Austen novels, but it's pretty awesome.

best Tuesday ever

thanks to Flash, the MW, the Big-Man, and the rest of C-Vegas for a great Tuesday. A solid lunch at the Guad, followed by an afternoon of hitting golf balls and putt-putt (you can't ignore the short game, baby. "drive for show, putt for dough!").

A bit of softball subbing for MW and I (he won, I lost) led to some trivia at Felinis, wings and beer at the Wing with the all-star game, and then down to Bluelight, where things got a bit wacky for a Tuesday night. No Dan-the-man behind bar, but we did get quite a show from the med-school girls, particularly from "Tits McGee and Holly McBoob" as the Big Man called it. Well, they sure took a liking to us as well. A few rounds of various "bombs" later and I was shuttle-bussing the crew plus a couple new friends to the Corner for some late night sandwiches. A solid night of debauchery, indeed. "Bombs over Baghdad, baby"

I need one of these

I wonder if they can fit "Flag-Twirling Heroes" on one of these. That's right, I plan on dominating.

seriously?

back in February, over on the K-Man's "Eponymous Serious" blog I vented about the White House's press releases about the deficit. Each of the last 4 years, they've released the deficit numbers in the winter, overestimating how large it is so that come summer they can say "look it's only $300 million, it's better than expected! We saved all this money!" Well, it seems that today's headline that "White House heralds improved deficit figures" means that they've done it again.

Couple questions:

• do they think that little of the American people?
• can you really "herald" the announcement that you've spent nearly $300 million more than you took in?

also, Congress is talking about banning internet gambling, and that will really cause me to rant. Looks like our Congressman, Virgil Goode, is a co-sponsor, so I probably can't talk him out of this one. Guess I'll just email our Senators and hope they kill it. The hypocrisy of banning poker and sports betting (which, I argue, are skill games) but allowing online state lotteries or horse-racing to continue is troubling.

alright, I'm off to find something more fun to blog about.

Meet the Mets

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-mets-newsong,0,7279509.mp3file?coll=ny-sports-headlines (audio)

Here's the new Mets theme song: "Our Team, Our Time." This would be 20 times funnier if they were 15 games under .500, but it's still ridiculous. Yet another sign why they will always be 2nd fiddle when it comes to NY baseball.

"Pedro Martinez will strike you out!"
"David Wright, Jose Reyes making sure you're not safe."