Baltimore Orioles

I'm a Yankee fan through and through, but I cannot stand watching them lose to cellar-dwelling teams.  I realize that all 30 MLB teams are professional teams, but I mean the Orioles?  They just tried like hell to give the Yankees that game.  "OK, guys. We've won two games in a row. If we win tonight, its called a winning streak. IT HAS HAPPENED BEFORE."

I mean as bad as their record was going into tonight (3-16), let's take a look inside the record.  Let's review:

• They are hitting .244 (20th) as a team, 4 points better than the NL West-leading SD Padres.
• Their Starting Rotation is a paltry 2-10 with a 4.75 ERA
• Their Pitching Staff has 1 less strikeout (132) than the Phillies (133) and 4 more than the Yankees (128)
• Only 7 teams have allowed fewer walks as a Pitching Staff

Meaningful Offensive Statistical Category Ranks: 
OB% - .304 - CWS (.303) & HOU (.281) have lower
R - 62 - HOU (60) is only team that has fewer
RBI - 59 - HOU (58) is only team that has fewer

Can't get guys on, can't get em in.  That's a pretty simple equation for failure.

They just beat the Yankees though, so they got themselves a win streak.

What's For Dinner? Ravioli and Baseball?

I will discuss my hunger pangs and baseball all in one entry - the thoughts that go through my mind about food will be in a RED font, baseball will be in the BLUE.  I wonder if this is why I can't focus.

Have you ever caught yourself stuffing your face right before you were ready to start cooking dinner?  Like it's so damn hard to wait another 30 minutes before eating?  Well, sometimes, it is.  Hughes, figure it out - bases loaded and a 2-0 count.  I stuffed my face with White Cheddar Cheese Puffs.  Bases loaded walk? Shit.  Man those puffs are good to go man, I can eat a bag of those suckers in one sitting - EASY!  Let me go start the water boiling.  Big double play, A-Rod going to his left - nice turn.  Water is boiling, ravioli will be taking a bath in about 15 minutes - I know it's pretty late to be eating.  My wife is taking graduate classes to get her professional diploma in counseling and practice was over at around 6:20pm so I got a late start - then I had to take Nathan out to do his business - and yes, I bag the crap and throw it away.  Unlike most people here - there are shit landmines all over the place - grass, sidewalk, curb, street - it's a battle zone here.  Man vs. Dog.  SWISHERR!!!  Man am I hungry - I can't even focus up right now to write this - BASE HIT SWISHER! - entry, but I will try to get it together for all 3 readers I have. 

Good for the Yankees, signing autographs for the troops before the game, giving bug hugs - Cervelli was hugging all the soldiers - THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR OUR COUNTRY!!  Millwood has some pretty good run on his fastball.  Let me go check the water, see if it's boiling - a watch pot never boils, which is crap, because it has to, once the temperature gets to 212°.  Way outside - whoa, almost let it get to the backstop.  Gotta go check the ravioli - may top it with a la Vodka sauce - mix it up a little bit.  Let's go A-Rod, get a hit.  LET'S GOOOOOO!!!

I am heading to finish getting dinner ready.  Ravioli and Yankees Baseball.  This is some battle, pissed on, Tejada made the catch.  Bye!

Head Automatica

Was at this show at The Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn - still patiently waiting for the new album to come out.  Check out Heat, great song. Head Automatica - Heat.

Smokin' On That Cancer Stick

Today I was walking to work from my apartment and saw something I see a majority of mornings - the same 40-to-50-something woman, with half a cigarette left, 2 steps from the door to her building, feverishly trying to suck in as many carcinogens as she can before she walks through the door.  Now why not just put the damn thing out and wait another 30 minutes before you take your first of 10 smoke breaks throughout the day?  I mean it's not like a fresh cigarette is really fresh, is it?
Nothing freshens my day (read: chaps my ass) more than having a co-worker come up to me with the smell of fresh cigarettes on their breath - especially if they're a close-talker.  What's a person to do when faced with such a situation?  Hold your breath?  Have a long exhale?  Look away and act busy?  How about just coming out and saying, "Still smoking I see.  Have some gum!"  Maybe they'll get the hint for the next time they come flapping their smoke-hole in your face.

Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemical compounds, so you can gladly give everyone else around you cancer while trying like hell to get it first.  Stay upwind of a smoker, otherwise you'll smoke that same cigarette unwillingly, unless you're a fast walker such as myself.  I pride myself being an above-average walker - this comes in handy when I need to pass a smoker on the street.  The pace of my strides is comparable to the rate at which this woman was trying to inhale her cancer.

Here's 3 quick facts, totally random, about smoking:

1. Each day, over 3,000 children smoke their first cigarette
2. Every :30 seconds, someone in the world dies of lung cancer
3. 19.8% of all American's smoke - if it ain't you, it's probably one of the next 4 people you'll see

Eat well, and for the sake of those around you, mix in some gum after a smoke.