How Clever We Are

I went to a bar downtown Friday night to watch the presidential debate with some friends. Over all it was a very solid time. Their were a few different groups their having sign ups. Over all I think these are good things, but here is what I don't get.

As we were leaving one of the fellows who attempted to get Doug and I to sign up for his group turned out to be a friend of a friend. He said something to the effect of, "Oh yeah I was annoying those two guys earlier." In reality Doug and I were not annoyed so much as we were in a bar and we were without drinks. This is not a situation we handle well, and we were trying to plot out the best course of action to remedy this problem. The guy was plenty nice enough, but nothing he could have said would have gotten me to join his group. I simply don't do that sort of thing. Well, after his statement about annoying Doug and I, he said he was upset because he didn't hit his quota for annoying people that evening. This can be taken one of two ways I believe.

1) He meant it in a weird sort of, I need to get more people involved, way

2) He really took pleasure in hosting his beliefs on others.


I really hope it was one and not two, but my gut says it was two.

I am only saying this once.

People keep mentioning Matsuaka as a Cy Young candidate. Let me be very clear. He is not even the Cy Young of the staff. It's John Lester.


Lester's inning pitched: 210.3
Matsuzaka's innings pitched: 167.7

Lester's WHIP: 1.27
Matsuzaka's WHIP: 1.32

Lesters's BABIP: .302
Matsuzaka's BABIP: .262

Lester's K's: 152
Matsuzaka's K's: 154

Lester's OBP Against: .320
Matsuzaka's OBP Against: .321

They each have 15 Win Shares. I am betting this is inflated b/c of the wins.

NASCAR

When my grand kids ask me why I dislike NASCAR, I will direct them to this image.

So I watched her speech.

So I just watched Sarah Palin's speech from the other night. Sadly she didn't hit on the themes I mentioned earlier, but she did hit on some themes I found interesting.

1) "The troops have brought victory within sight" It would seem you need something as powerful as the Huble Telescope to be able to see it, but I suppose that is within sight.

2) "Special needs family's needing America to be more welcoming to their sons and daughters have an addvicate in Washington will have one." Here's my question, what if you need America to be more accepting of your gay son or daughter? Will she still be there for them? My gut says no.

3) She also implied that it's not ok to praise the working class for their what they bring to the table while still wanting to increase gun control. (She also made some point on religion that just didn't make sense) I guess what I want to know, is it not ok to disagree with people you respect?

4)She want's to drill the SPR. She's nuts. (yes this is dismissive and unkind, but it's also true)

5) She implied that wanting to heal the planet is a bad thing. Yeah...the EPA is gonna LOVE her.

6) She implied that it's a bad thing that Obama wants to respect the rights of people captured during the war on terror. How exactly is this a bad thing? Note: McCain isn't even against this.

Just my idle thoughts.

A few days late

I have no clue what Sarah Palin's stance on sex education or handing out condoms in schools is, but if she's in the abstinence only camp, then wouldn't she be a glaring example of how that doesn't work? Again I don't know if she is or isn't, but sadly I hope she is if only to show how silly that is.

Note: I really hope she brought her daughter b/c she wanted to show that she loves her kid, and is in no way ashamed of her.

The Simple Pleasures

I am sitting here listening to music on the ole iPod via some head phones, and I am reminded of one the simplest pleasures in life. Hearing guitar and bass parts in a more clear and distinct way b/c the music is about .2 inches from your ears. It's a true joy.

*side note: Ear buds suck*
(you didn't think this was gonna be all posi did you? Oh you did? You must be new here.)