Replacing the Sox Blog

I am replacing my Red Sox blog with a more general baseball blog. I will shift focus to include lots of local baseball stuff from Oklahoma. This is an attempt to raise my readership from zero to one.

The new site is called Red Dirt, Navy Cap.

There's not much there, but there's some World Series Baseball to be played and the off season haggling for players starts, which is the most interesting time for controversy hungry bloggers.

Google Bomb of the Day

Type the word failure into Google and see what pops up. The top two are sooooo apropos.

The French Hate the Smurfs

Well, I don't speak French so I don't know what it really says, but I'll bet this Unicef Commercial mocks us somehow.

Having bombed more than one Smurf village, I can tell you from experience that this clip is obviously not actually footage. In all the bombings I've done, the smurfs have never scurried around like that. They are always very quickly in the nearest house and not a soul is to be seen until hours after the bombing campaign had ended.

This is because, after 1947, building codes required all smurf cottages to have a re-enforced mushroom roof and a bomb shelter, due to their protracted war against the Nation of Evil Scientists Wearing Black Smocks.

This clip is fake and it's just one more piece anti-American propaganda from UNICEF. Our war against the smurfs, or as we called them "the blue smears" is just and legal

Existentialist Writer's Quote of the Day

I found a play that I worked on (and wrote the first act of) a couple of years ago. I started it in probably 2002 and messed with it from time to time until I became a police officer, after which the play has set in a tray and is no longer even on my hard drive. Anyway, the first or secong time I revised it, I wrote a note on the front cover of the play which I think is kinda funny, looking at it a couple years after I wrote it and I thought I'd share with you and insight into my writing style. It says simply this:

Make David real bad. Kill him in the end.

Hope you liked it.

What I Did This Week

I'm hiding from the cameras, but here is the story. We have been busy in Sector Three this set.

Starbuck's Cup Quote of the Day

Got a Venti Vanilla Latte the other day and this is the quote that was printed on the side.

Everywhere, unthinking mobs of "independent thinkers" wield tired cliches like cudgels, pummeling those who dar question "enlightened" dogma. If "violence never solved anything," cops wouldn't have guns and slaves may never have been freed. If it's better that 10 guilty men go free to spare one innocent, why not free 100 or 1,000,000? Cliches begin arguments, they don't settle them.

-Jonah Goldberg
Editor at large of National Review Online

Go Out and Get Your NBA Gear

It's official. The New Orleans Hornets will be moving to Oklahoma City for the 2005-06 season. In a move reminiscent of the baseball Angels, the team will be called "The New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets." During TV broadcasts, the title will be shortened to "N.O./Okla City."

The City, the State and a private investment group of Oklahoma Businessmen (no doubt this is code for the Mathis Brothers and the guy who owns Express Personnel) will share three way risk, guaranteeing the team $10 Million if the team falls short of it's desired $40 million revenue.

The team will play six of its home games in Louisiana, the remaining 35 will be played in the Ford Center.

Still can't Understand what They're Saying

Charissa and I went to the Spin Doctors concert tonight a the State Fair. It was AWESOME!!! The band is touring to get the word out on their first album in 11 years, after being broken up for seven. The concert was incredible. They are an outstanding band live. We even bought the new CD and T-Shirts, got all the members autographs and took a picture of Charissa with lead singer Chris Barron. Here are the pics.

Charissa with Chris Barron

"Two Princes"

Kinda fuzzy during "Pocket Full of Kryptonite" (I'm holding the camera above my head and Chris is dancing around alot)

Opening of the Show. Cool Green Lights...

Headless Ted Memorialized in Sculpture

For those of you who don't know (I had forgotten this myself) Red Sox great Ted Williams was cryogenically frozen after his death in 2002.

Strangely, his head was surgically removed and is being stored separate from his body in a lab in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he waits with about 60 other popsicle bodies to be re-animated when the technology exists.

Sculptor Daniel Edwards has created a sculpture in honor of Ted Williams and in protest to his state of chilly unrest. The sculpture depicts the head of Ted Williams sitting in front of the bust of Ted Williams, with his head leaning back and his eyes partly closed.

Says Edwards:

They should free his remains. I'm a huge fan of Ted Williams. When I was a kid, the first bat I got was a Ted Williams model.

By the way, the decision to cryogenically freeze Ted Williams was made by his son based on a scrap of paper which stated that Williams and his children wished to be frozen when they died so that they could be together again in the future. William's will requests that he be cremated and his remains be scattered in the Florida Keys.

By the way, you can have your own Headless Ted Sculpture (there are three) for 15 grand.

Scanner Traffic of the Night

Found this on Freq of Nature a radio website. Apparantely, Osama bin Laden hangs out in Redding, CA at the Walgreens and drives a Silver Suburban.

This one, however is a little more intense. You'll here lots of unit numbers and stuff you don't understand, but you'll know when the crap hits the fan. Most people don't realize how quickly stuff happens and how quickly it is over.