Blog is Back, Back Again

OK, the blog is back, and so am I. I know it is late Monday night, but this is your Tuesday Morning Entry. Refreshed and Ready to roll with BaD Radio at Noon, so let’s party together. Hope we all still love eachother.

Rangers rally in 9th, beat BoSox ...

The winning run driven in by Mench, who Baseball Muse thought could have been an all-star:

Mench is second among AL outfielders in OPS trailing only Vlad Guerrero. His 15 HR ranks him third and he has played solid defense in LF for the Rangers. I think those qualifications are enough to get him a spot in the final 5 voting (moreso than Derek Jeter). This is probably a case of earning his sport for next year by finishing the year strong.

2nd to Vlad in Ops??? Who would have guessed that leaving spring training?



Roids?

Kobayashi wins his 5th straight Hot Dog Title …

Lebreton bids Rogers goodbye …

Cheap Shot on Kenny Rogers: His Postseason Numbers …Lest we forget how money he is…

Rogers, who has been one of the worst postseason performers of the modern era: 0-3 record, 8.85 ERA, 20 1/3 innings, 32 hits allowed, 20 earned runs, 16 walks and 15 strikeouts.

Now, if you have read this blog for more than 2 weeks, you know I love (among other things) Liverpool Football. That being said, I am about tired of the on-going soap opera of Steven Gerrard. Look, I love the dude, but this is so tiresome. I prefer they sign him, but if they don’t, the sun will come up as it did when Michael Owen left. My plea: Do it, or don’t, but GET ON WITH IT! The Latest from London does not look good …

Hit Man making a come back????? …No way!...By the way, on vacation I had a chance to view a few things that have sat on my Tivo for a while. One of them, was the May 14th whooping of Felix Trinidad by Winky Wright …And wow, was I wrong. Wright dominated that fight so easily, that now I wonder if he might finally be the guy to beat Bernard Hopkins. How is that for a 7 week old take?

I often claim a website is great. I try not to build them up to high, but this site, retrosheet.org is AWESOME! It has boxscores from Way back in time, so if you, like me, save ticket stubs from games you once attended as a boy, you can look up the date, and relive your youth. June 23, 1982 was the oldest ticket stub I could find, and here is the game that 9-year old Bob Sturm enjoyed 3 days prior to his 10th birthday. Freakin Yankees and Roy Smalley dropped the hammer on my big night…

Here is another boxscore from a game I attended as a young lad: July 31, 1990 , which was Nolan Ryan's 300th win...Chris Bosio had nothing for him...

All Napoleon Dynamite Soundboards in the same place …



If you thought my tattoo was poor judgement, What about this genius who tattooed her face forever for $10,000? …

Smith, on the other hand, now has a url plastered across her face. She claims that she did it to raise funds for her son's private education, enthusing: "I really want to do this. To everyone else, it seems like a stupid thing to do. To me, $10,000 is like $1 million. I only live once, and I'm doing it for my son ... It's a small sacrifice to build a better future for my son."

No it isn't a small sacrifice - it's a bloody daft thing to do for $15k and raises the question as to whether Smith is not a couple of bids short of a auction. To its credit, the tattoo parlour which did the dirty deed - SI TATTOOING in Salt Lake City - reportedly spent seven hours trying to talk her out of it. Well, sort of to its credit, because it went ahead and tattooed the silly woman anyway, but it's the thought that counts...

When Hockey returns, you may not recognize it …

The Great Hank Stram Dead at 82 ...65 Toss Power Trap, Forever, Hank.