With more activity on our podcast show, the Dungeon of Manlove, and the planning of a couple of other projects, I haven’t had a great deal of time to write a whole lot here.
As more people are becoming involved with our show and guests spinning through the door, all sorts of ideas are being developed and more time is spent there than here.
There is no doubt that there is strength in numbers and while I am an admirer of rugged individualism, how our team numbers improve what we do is fantastic. Now keep in mind that I don’t necessarily mean that what we are doing is fantastic; that is quite subjective. But to us, the way we develop things makes our material much better.
We make use of a private Facebook group page to brainstorm and plan all week. Someone will toss out an idea on the wall there. Sometimes it’s as simple as talking about bringing in someone to promote some music. Sometimes the idea stands alone. Most of the time after someone posts an idea it begins to get molded on the page. Some things are added or switched or subtracted and it takes a final shape. There are times the final idea doesn't resemble the original one.
It is truly fun and if you don’t mind explicit language and ideas, do take a listen. Remember that we do everything simply to have fun.
Some baseball. The Cleveland Indians started this season 30-15. They then proceeded to go 4-15 and become just another average team and are now just tied for first with the Tigers. This sport is so humbling that way. I do believe that my pre-season predictions are basically close to being correct. The one team that has slipped in to the mix is the Brewers, who have now tied the Cardinals in the NL Central.
Some place else I predicted that the Red Sox Adrian Gonzalez would become the AL MVP and he is living up to my expectations there. In the NL I predicted that Albert Pujols would be the MVP again. He is not quite there right now. I would give that nod to Matt Kemp from the Dodgers. But I wouldn’t count Albert out just yet. He is still amongst the leaders in HR’s and RBI’s and hitting .280 or so. It’s just not an Albert sort of year at this point. There is still plenty of season left though, and this is one of the best hitters in our era, so look out NL.
I thought that Cole Hamels from the Phillies might have a true breakout season in the middle of all those quality pitchers on the team. So far, it looks that way. Hamels is now 8-2 with a 2.58 era. He is averaging over a strikeout per inning and his WHIP leads the majors at .95. (WHIP = walks and hits per innings pitched; the lower the number, the better.) The WHIP numbers are amazing. Its tough to lose if you’re tossing up numbers like that.
While power production in baseball has taken a bit of a dip, there are currently 35 players who are hitting .300 or better (all of whom have enough plate appearances to qualify for the leader boards.) That’s probably about 15 or so more than normal. No one is even remotely close to threatening to be the next .400 hitter though. Jose Reyes is leading at .342. From years of watching this, we can probably expect the leaders in both leagues to end up hitting in the .320’s. That .400 mark I have never seen in baseball. Most of us have never seen it happen since it was 1941 when it happened last.
I think the only way we will see it happen is if someone takes Ted William’s cryogenically frozen remains and clones him in the future when that will be legal to do.
Would you want to have yourself cloned? I think I would. That wouldn’t mean that it would actually be me in the sense that I would be conscious of the whole new life, but I think it would be cool. Since I don’t have any children, I could leave all my stuff to my new me.
Ok, I just can’t resist saying something political.
If you were aUS Congressman or woman, would you send a picture of your wiener to anyone, ever? Leave alone the fact that perhaps you were married. Would you still even do that? Who, with any sense whatsoever, would subject themselves to potentially getting blackmailed as a member of Congress, most importantly?
Some baseball. The Cleveland Indians started this season 30-15. They then proceeded to go 4-15 and become just another average team and are now just tied for first with the Tigers. This sport is so humbling that way. I do believe that my pre-season predictions are basically close to being correct. The one team that has slipped in to the mix is the Brewers, who have now tied the Cardinals in the NL Central.
Some place else I predicted that the Red Sox Adrian Gonzalez would become the AL MVP and he is living up to my expectations there. In the NL I predicted that Albert Pujols would be the MVP again. He is not quite there right now. I would give that nod to Matt Kemp from the Dodgers. But I wouldn’t count Albert out just yet. He is still amongst the leaders in HR’s and RBI’s and hitting .280 or so. It’s just not an Albert sort of year at this point. There is still plenty of season left though, and this is one of the best hitters in our era, so look out NL.
I thought that Cole Hamels from the Phillies might have a true breakout season in the middle of all those quality pitchers on the team. So far, it looks that way. Hamels is now 8-2 with a 2.58 era. He is averaging over a strikeout per inning and his WHIP leads the majors at .95. (WHIP = walks and hits per innings pitched; the lower the number, the better.) The WHIP numbers are amazing. Its tough to lose if you’re tossing up numbers like that.
While power production in baseball has taken a bit of a dip, there are currently 35 players who are hitting .300 or better (all of whom have enough plate appearances to qualify for the leader boards.) That’s probably about 15 or so more than normal. No one is even remotely close to threatening to be the next .400 hitter though. Jose Reyes is leading at .342. From years of watching this, we can probably expect the leaders in both leagues to end up hitting in the .320’s. That .400 mark I have never seen in baseball. Most of us have never seen it happen since it was 1941 when it happened last.
I think the only way we will see it happen is if someone takes Ted William’s cryogenically frozen remains and clones him in the future when that will be legal to do.
Would you want to have yourself cloned? I think I would. That wouldn’t mean that it would actually be me in the sense that I would be conscious of the whole new life, but I think it would be cool. Since I don’t have any children, I could leave all my stuff to my new me.
Ok, I just can’t resist saying something political.
If you were a
I love how the left in this country claim that Sarah Palin is the dumbest politician out there. Yet Anthony Wiener does something so completely moronic and not one thing is mentioned about his "smarts."
Speaking of Sarah Palin; if she is so freaking dumb and so incompetent, why in the world is the left and the leftist media in this country SO obsessed with her?
I will tell you why. Because they know that if she got the Republican nomination that she would be the first female President of the
We were told by the feminist movement that a woman could do everything from being a mother to being a leader. Well…isn’t that what Sarah Palin is exactly? She is a mother of 5 children and became a governor of a state.
So what is the issue then with her on the left? It can only be that she is pro-life, religious, and anti big government. Because everything else that she is, as a woman, is exactly what we were told were goals for women.
So…yes another so…we have the National Organization for Women (NOW) basically doing whatever they can to keep Sarah Palin OUT of office yet they say absolutely NOTHING about someone who resembles a sexual predator to GET OUT of office.
So…to conclude the so’s…the NOW really just shows that they are just a leftist organization created and maintained to advocate for fellow leftists and a pro-choice agenda. They care not about the actual advancement of women in this country unless they toe the leftist line.
The hypocrisy is mind boggling.
What the media tried to do to her this past week I cannot recall them ever doing to any other potential Presidential candidate, especially our current President. The NY Times and Washington Post solicited outside volunteers to help them go through 25000 emails sent and received by Palin when she was the governor.
Now had there been anything earth shattering in there we would now be reading about this day in and day out about her in these papers. But, something odd happened...they didn't find anything of the sort. So, what is the result? Is there ONE decent article written that says, "hey, perhaps we were wrong about this woman." Or is there any sort of acknowledgement that this was way overboard here? No.
This is the same media that tells anyone who wants to dig into President Obama's past that the "Fascist propaganda attack machine" is at it again and to worry about the future, not the past.
Let's not make a mistake here. While I would vote for Palin over Obama, she isn't in my top 5 of favorites for me. My personal 2 or 3 choices are not involved in the race this year...yet, anyway.
But if more women aren't going to stand up and protest what the left and the leftist media are trying to do to Sarah Palin, I'm not keeping my freaking mouth shut about it. I know what happened with my mother when she was in the working world and trying to advance up the ladder. I will not let that happen on my watch. And even if only 5 people are reading this...ok, well not too much is getting accomplished, but at least I'm not just sitting in the back yard with my head down eating grass like a sheep.
Done
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