This is the reason I always swim on my back…

Harriet’s 168th. birthday party with Steve Irwin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD9M_WCXn3s

Because I have a “thing” about having those little floor-crunchies on my feet. Floating flooring is nice, but every little thing lays right on top of it… So instead of constantly dusting the bottoms of my feet off on my calves, I just throw on some house shoes. Freshly cleaned floors excepted.

I agree with that. It just seems so far out or place in baseball the way it is. Sad thing is, there was probably a whole damn committee of executives planning that change… and probably not a damn single one of em fans of baseball… Sad, really… I totally plucked that outta my ass, though. I have no real knowledge of how that decision was really made. But it seems fitting for the way shit’s gone the last few years…

I’m good with that, as an Orioles fan with Mateo and Mullins on the team… I guess I’m the old bastard on this one, really. I was okay with long games. Last O’s game I attended went 13 innings and I got to see damn near the whole team play. I absolutely loved it and wished it went to 33 innings… I get it, but I love watching live baseball. I hate the ghost runner so much. It reminds me of playing in the yard with just my sister when we were kids… Doesn’t belong in MLB, though. At least in my opinion. I like the choice of an optional intentional, though… That’s not a bad idea, really…

Kill the guy on second… The “Manfred Man,” The “Zombie Runner,” etc… Figure out something better for extra innings. It’s almost embarrassing, especially when explaining it to kids and newcomers…

That’s true… And what I was (jokingly) referencing…

But, my Dad’s mother, my Granny…

She was a natural Lefty…

And musically inclined…

Her Daddy slacked the strings on the family guitar before he left for work…

She figured out how to tune that instrument…

Those in her church, later, made fun of her for playing backwards chords, because she was a lefty. .

She learned to play the other way, too… And she taught me both…

There’s so many sides and nuances to every thought in our lives…

It was a harmless joke, but it has roots in my reality…

This shit is so often much deeper than we think…

You made a fuckin hell of a statement, but it’s without context or understanding…

I was just making an off-handed joke…

There is a fucking shitload of lefties in baseball… Because it fucks with the righties when they’re batting…

Baseball?

Some days are just… Right…

Hahaaaa! I know ya do!

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You’re right about not dumping dollars into the team when they were tanking. It would just have been an extreme waste. And with Chris Davis being the highest paid player on the team last year, I’m really so very glad that we didn’t go after Correa or any of the other big contracts. Save those damn dollars for Adley, Gunnar, Jackson is coming up soon; keep some money for those dudes. I think it’s smart. But we gotta gotta gotta fill those holes in the pitching. Till The Mountain comes back we’re gonna need somebody like Kimbrel. I dig that move and hope he hangs in there and gives em hell.

According to the Locked On Orioles podcast there may be a couple rumors going on surrounding Dylan Cease of the White Sox, which sounds good to me, but the thing is: I really hope they don’t fuck up the farm system… I’d rather see money spent than see a few of those dudes get traded. Some, I realize, are there only for trade pieces. But, not Jackson or Mayo, and so far I’m feeling that way about the centerfielder, although his name eludes my mind at the moment (Enrique? Something like that…?)

I’ve got good feelings about the leadership (Angelos aside, kinda) and I think they’ve done a hell of a job, shit we just won a hundred games! The next few years are gonna be absolutely phenomenal baseball. And I’m high on the O’s again!

I was definitely beginning to think I was only one here. Cheers!

Fuckin Go O’s!

I’m a fuckin O’s fan. Tanking is by far the worst thing in baseball. Some steps have been made to reduce the benefit of just losing your ass off for draft picks. But, even worse than those hard tanking years, it hurts the most seeing a really great farm-raised team not getting supplemented with some good pitchers because of the refusal of Angelos (owner of the Orioles) to spend any real money.

There’s a rumor rolling around that maybe David Rubenstein is interested in buying the team, Baltimore native, hell of a lot of money… But unknown in the willingness to spend category. Owners that don’t spend are far worse for this great game, in my opinion.

Superstar teams usually don’t work either, mind you… But not putting money into a team with the talent level of the O’s in the past couple years? That’s just straight fucked.

That’s a damn good one…

Hell, shoot me a pricelist, bud.

Merry Axemas from '97. Vai, Satch, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jeff Beck, &c… I think there were a couple later ones, too. I just remember having the first one. It’s pretty decent, though.

Catching a fish. Even seeing someone else catch a fish, especially kids catching fish. There’s nothing else quite like it. Pure excitement and joy.

Shit…

Just saw this, homie…

What do ya need on a print of it?

And has realized that she left nothing behind… Other than compliance to Her Man…

Some like it like that, eh?

Baby, I feel like I been cat-grooming a fuckin Snatchsquatch. I got hot towels, a basin of hot water, clippers and a razor. Spread em. I’m killing that fuckin thing.