Baseball 1 – Common Sense 0

The Montreal Expos are being moved to Washington, D.C. Their name will undoubtedly be

changed to something "patriotic" and politically lathered by order of the president or v.p. or someone within that sphere of the über-fanatical; can’t be the Senators though, the Rangers own that name. This turns the team into a political platform for those in Washington instead of a baseball team. "See what we did? We took baseball out of the hands of those dirty, Iraq War pooh-poohing Canadians, and put it right back in the good ol' U.S. of A. YEEHAH!" Maybe they'll let the president own the team, and we'll all see, again, the wonderful business tactics that he uses. Do you remember his ability to drive the Rangers into a massive debt? Yeah. Business savvy? Sure.

Regardless, the move pissed off Montreal as they submitted a lawsuit to the Major League

Baseball, and for good reason. The MLB is pulling a team out of a city that had supported them, although not to the extent that MLB wanted, without weighing other options for a city in close proximity to another city with a ball team. This all makes so much sense. Move a team that had fan support from one of the largest cities in North America and could have been developed a bit more by the MLB to a city where a market already exists. This way Baltimore will suffer as well. This smacks of something the president is all too familiar with, bad “strategery”. Why doesn’t the MLB use the funds they would have to use to entice an honor, build a stadium, and pay off the Orioles to build up a marketing campaign in Montreal to bring more fans into the park? Honestly, the team wasn’t half bad this year. They need some development as well. Early this year they lost Vladimir Guerrero because of budget cuts, but if the MLB gave them more money they might have kept the guy, and his .333 batting average could be helping them to win more games instead of the Angels.

Jim Caple said it best, "If tonight's game is to be the final one at Stadium Olympique, I suggest

the fans enjoy some final smoked meat sandwiches, sing 'O, Canada' at the top of their lungs, cheer their Expos and then give baseball the raised middle finger it deserves."

You have to give it up to the news media. Finally recognizing that the moog is making a comeback. You go New York Times. You go.

We're going out to lunch to celebrate my first placement. WOO! LUNCH!

Sorry, I'm just really excited.

Placed my first person today!! Will write more after work.

WOO!

Haven't been great. Pretty down. Too much with too little. I'll be losing my office to move out into the conference, type room (the main room). I'll be able to hear everything and everyone will be able to hear me. Fully aware as to why I feel the way I do. Just not sure what I can do to resolve the issues. Basically, I'm a wuss. Perhaps tonight I'll be able to discuss it a bit more and reach some kind of an answer. No more posting for the day.

I suck.

"We don't do anything by design," said Robb of Incu...I mean, Hoobastank. He continued, "All we wanted was to completely rip off Incubus and be the gayest group of men ever to be fabricated into a band and have songs written for us since Culture Club."

It's not funny anymore, there's something seriously wrong with this country.
Cat Stevens sang songs called "Moon Shadow", "Morning Has Broken", and "Peace Train". How can he be listed as a suspected terrorist profiteer? Explain this. In fact, it was believed that he "was a financial supporter of groups believed to be linked to terrorism". Are you kidding me?
Go ahead, read the articles. There are six.

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In triumph today I yelled out, "All hail David, ruler of your asses!" followed by, "Badassery."

Sadly, I can understand why they decided to make this move. We have so much money tied up in a false war, after all.

On another note, if you refresh the page a few times you will see an advertisement for the issues that face the Bahais in Iran.

In a stream of consciousness

I made grammatical and spelling errors.

Why is it that whenever the president or his vice say or report anything we blindly accept? “We

won’t negotiate with terrorists.” “There are no more women who are detained in Iraqi prisons.” “The president was in the National Guard and Kerry received shadowy purple hearts.” “There was nothing anyone could do to prevent 9/11.” “Unless you vote for Bush you’re not a ‘patriot’.” As soon as statements are made we bat our eyelashes and let forth this doe eyed admiration for those who run our country. What happened to us? When did we lose the path of cynicism that we used to have? The government would say something and there would be mob of neigh-sayers baying for blood on the news media, calling the comments ludicrous, waving fact-sheets for checking. Now we are told something and we sit and stare, like zombies. What is the reason for it? How can anyone living in this country just be content with what has been happening over the past few years? We’re not doing well. The economy sucks; we’re at war because of Weapons of Mass Destruction, terrorism, or Saddam (For one of those reasons, anyway. It’s hard to tell any more, minds have been changed so many times); we’re living in constant fear that some new catastrophe will kill us all; the Patriot Act hounds and watches our every move (movie rentals, book buying, website content, etc.) to ensure that we are not a threat to our government or neighbors; etc. Yet, most importantly, this country has become the bane of the world – not the first time this has happened, but still. There are more countries that hate us now than hated Britain during the Colonial period of their history, and they revolted and killed thousands of British for “freedom”. We have overstepped our boundaries and into other people’s business. We claim to have the answer, yet can’t even resolve our problems at home.

There is a far larger separation between political spectrums than there has been in over fifteen

years. Why? What’s the point? There is no reason why we should be hated or hate for the reasons we have chosen. Republicans hate Democrats and vice versa. It has become this polarized playground aesthetic of pointless bickering. The fanatic portions of each party taking especially strong stances (to say it simply) and acting as if their position is that of the rest of the party and the country as a whole. Well, uh, no. Sorry. Not so much. Far more personally to me, the government has chosen scapegoats in Middle Easterners. They make it seem like all of them are to blame for the problems this country has and is facing. How? How can a group of people, a vast majority of whom live lives just as you or I, be put in this position? Why is it that so many people can be condemning of them without remembering history? The Crusades of the Middle Ages were just as bad as the Crusades going on right now. Fanatical Christians were to blame then, they attacked because they didn’t want to share the Holy Land with Muslims. Now, Fundamentalist Muslims are doing the same. They want the Holy Land to themselves, but they can’t so they blow up buildings. They see their way of life disrupted by, what in their eyes seems to be, the United States and want it to stop.

And let’s tirade about “actionable steps”, shall we. More scapegoating? Yeah. The current Power

Structure [sic] has decided that it is not their fault that September 11th happened, it was the democrats who were in office. It was because they didn’t lay out a plan to prevent something that was to happen almost a year after they left. Ohhh! I had no idea that those in Power essentially rode on coattails. They’re not supposed to construct new ideas or reform plans, they’re supposed to use whatever the last guy had. Then why do they hate Clinton and his posse so much if they were just going to use what he had laid out for them? When you’re little your mom lays out your cloths for you on your bed; tells you what to wear to look nice. Always a clean, nice set of cloths. Now, when you’re mom stops doing that, thinking that you’re big enough to dress yourself, you can blame her for not putting out cloths for you. You are old enough. She doesn’t have to hold your hand when you cross the street any more, or when you’re grocery shopping so that you don’t run off and eat grapes from the produce stand. That is how the current Power Structure is set up, the little kid who blames his mom for the fact that he’s not used to doing it for himself. They’re pitiful, ignorant, and arrogant without having a singular understand of how to actually do the job they have been elected or appointed into.

I mean, have you smelled Donkey Kong's loin cloth lately?

Yes

I have decided to create and distribute signs for the presidential election. Why? Well, I just don't think that King Kong has received enough press as a candidate. I mean, if you don't have the press reporting on you and what you're "about" then you're politics will never be heard. And King Kong's politics are very important to you, the voting public. King Kong is for the death penalty, by him. Before you make any judgments, I would like to point out that this is one giant ape. He needs sustenance. Lots of sustenance. As well, King Kong abhors the disgusting treatment of prisoners in many of the United States' military prisons. He knows that if he were locked up in a cage, again, and mistreated by guards and men poking him with tazer rods then he wouldn't be happy at all. All he asks is that they're treated fairly, and given their fair share of poorly behaved prisoners to eat on a daily basis. Again, he's a big ape. In fact, he can understand why families of those in those prisons are reacting the way they are. Kong's own cousin, Donkey Kong, has been known to throw barrels at guards when his family has been put under locked door. King Kong is also pro, what he calls, environmental restructuring. If we are able to reevaluate the state of our resources and manufacturing practices we could establish specialized environmental strictures for each company; thus, conserving resources and allowing the Earth to "right itself". Lastly, King Kong is all about reasonably sized, blonde women. He gets hungry.

So, vote for King Kong for a brighter tomorrow! Full of giant, hungry apes.

Proof that even Europeans can be retarded

"There was something about him. Because he's from Mexico he has that European flair."

Really? I had no idea that Mexico had migrated to Europe. Must have happened while the country slept - like the Baltimore Colts of old.

Political Speak, Speak, Speak, Burp

"Last week, Illinois US Senate candidate Alan Keyes claimed that Jesus Christ
would not vote for his opponent, Democrat Barack Obama.

"That's it. This guy's gotta go." ~ Matthew Sprague

In other news the new Green Day record, "American Idiot", is excellent, and I've been listening to it pretty much none stop for the past two days. Also obsessed with Engine Down ("Demure") and anything having to do with Ryan Adams.

It is truly a shame that this will be spun into something that it is not. She wanted to play the game and adhere to her religious herritage, but she didn't want to cause a huge crap fest by "fighting" the current uniform code. That's pretty much it.

The greatest human being ever to walk the Earth, God's gift to mankind, George W. Bush and his friends in the Senate have decided that the appropriations set for the restablization of Iraq should be spent on the further arming of the military force; because the people don't need sanitation systems or water, they need guns.

I'll never understand it.

Back to work. Too much work. Need more sleep. Birthday was ok. Miss Jenna. Hate Decatur, Citibank, Bloomington, and the guy who was in front of me most of the time this morning -- almost hit him twice. Stomaches feeling better. Head still swimming butterflies. Need to set up a new account somewhere else, make car and insurance payments, block out my current card, call the health insurance people, get health insurance, and talk to Patrick about cheap stuff at Tower. Probably other stuff. Almost lunch time.

So, the American League West needs another team to even things out. The following is a list of expansion teams that I think should be created.

The Idaho Russet Venereal Diseases

The Las Vegas, NV Burnswhenyoupee

The L.A., CA Crackwhores

The El Paso, TX Fence Jumpers

The Amarillo, TX Boredom

The Salt Lake City, UT Jews (think about it!)

The Reno, NV Half-Buried Corpses

The Helena, MT Incredible Boredom

The Branson, MO “Dead” Celebrities

The Phoenix, AR It's a Dry Heat

The Eugene, OR Impregnable Secret Forest Stronghold

The New Mexican Old Dirty Mexicans

The Arizona Desolate

The Juneau, AK Nothing Clever

The Nevada Genderless Dancing Girls

The Preston, ID DYNAMITE’S!!

The Culiacán, Mexico ¿Por Qué Tenemos Nosotros Un Equipo Deportivo?

The Yellowknife, Canada I Can’t Feel My Penis

The Irvine, CA Preppy-ass Bitches

If you have any ideas for other team names feel free to leave a comment; even though I know Matthew doesn't need an invitation, ass clown.

I don't agree that all Republicans are one way and that Democrats are another, but I do agree that those in the spot light are (or so they present themselves to be). It's just an interesting way of looking at things.

Thanks Moby.

The Unisex Bathroom

Pros and Cons

Think about it. What would it be like to have a unisex bathroom. While uncomfortable, we would have a couch to sit on. That's all I've got.

Your opinion?