27 thoughts on “September 2, 2013: Flood”

1. Is everybody sleeping in today or something?

   1. I'm working on the stuff I listed in the CoC. I've been hoping for a break here at the site, though, and there's been nothing to comment on.

      1. Spooky hates Monday Book Day.

         1. It wasn't a good reading month, is all. I had picked up a little, but work on the game derailed me more than anything. I've read a lot of short stories in Spookymilk Survivor, but that's about it.

            1. Just trying to take the heat off me.

               1. Nice try.

   2. Absolutely.

2. An interesting profile of Doug Mientkiewicz.

   1. Working on the game log, Reverend. Which reminds me - DAY GAME ALERT!

      1. Oops, that was supposed to go... oh, never mind.

   2. Who gets the souvenir ball?

      thanks for the link, Padre.

      also, these juxtaposed sentences had me going in a different direction than Fielding Grammies:

      He also became the central figure in a benches-clearing brawl.

      Although the former Gold Glove first baseman’s roots as a competitor have helped him deal with the challenges of the present,

3. ok, this time of the year you will hear 'strength of schedule'; when it comes down to MLB Playoff race. Thats a bunch of malarkey. Look at this weekend, a strong Texas team lost 2 games to the lowly Twins.

   1. That's one of the great things about baseball. There's really no such thing as an "upset" in one game or even a three-game series, because this sort of thing happens all the time.

      1. which is why you need a "system" to make money in Vegas! /hitking

         1. Owning a casino is still the best system for making money in Vegas.

4. A series of tweets from Jim Mandelaro:

   With tying run at 3rd and 0 outs in 9th Sunday, Durham All-Star Vince Belnome was due to bat vs. Norfolk. Belnome was hitting .300 and begged out of lineup to protect his average. He's not playing today. Classless of him and Bulls mgr Charlie Montoyo. This story will hurt him more than his .300 average will help him once the word spreads. He apparently has little faith in himself.

   1. Not even a smidgen of Ted Williams in that boy.

5. So far this weekend I've raked up five bushels of acorns, and I've got half the back yard still to go. I have to rake them up before I mow or it sounds like a machine gun battle. Fucking nuts.

   1. We were in Glenwood for the weekend. FiL offered my kids a nickel apiece to pick up apples fallen from his two trees. CER freaked out when she saw a wasp at $0.60 in. HPR got tired/bored after picking up $3.25.
      FiL messaged us that he picked up $21.35 this morning after we left.

      1. I wonder how much I'll have to pay the kids for my apples and pears.

      2. We've got at least $7.50 in apples on the ground in our backyard right now.

         1. I'll be by in 21 hours. Hopefully they'll be enough to cover my gas by the time I arrive.

   2. When we lived in North Sioux, our yard had a bunch of old, ugly-looking pine trees that constantly dropped needles and cones. If we took a week off from raking the yard it'd get so you could hardly take a step without stepping on a pine cone.

6. hey, there is a football draft in roughly 2 hours

   1. In case anyone else is not bbq'ing today, the draft room is open

      1. Yahoo's autopick IDP drafting is seriously on crack. Marcus Sherels?? What is this??

7. RIP Frank Martinez.

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