Nothing screams opening day like the smell of pine tar, the feel of FieldTurf between your toes, and a half foot of snow on the teflon dome. Ah yes, it’s Opening Day for (most of) baseball.
Channelling my inner Sports Guy (that sounded bad, didn’t it?) I’ll be keeing a diary during tonight’s game. Come join me, won’t you.
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I can see it now… April 5th, 2010. Opening day for the Minnesota Twins coming off of their promising 87 win 2009 season.
But… opening day at the new ballpark will have to wait because there is 7 inches of snow on the field, and it’s still coming down.
Now April snow isn’t a guarantee in the frozen tundra, but it certainly isn’t unheard of either. Nor is a month of solid rain (anyone remember June of 2004 when there were two days it didn’t rain?).
Not putting a roof on the new Twins stadium (I boldly predict) will be a huge mistake.
Of course a bigger mistake would be for the great State of Minnesota to foot the bill for it.
Ah well, it’ll just make for a lot of double headers… nothing wrong with 6 hours of baseball (or drinking).
So John McCain doesn’t know that contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV. Apparently what he does know is that he’s “sure [he's] taken a position on it in the past”, and just needs to have one of his staffers let him know what that was. He also knows that he’s against spending public money on it, even though it’d probably amount to about the cost of a minute and a half of the Iraq war, which he’s fine with extending another hundred years.
But hey, that’s politics these days. What I find most telling is the final paragraph. The media, ever ready to get to the bottom of things (so to speak), interrupted their own brief moment of journalism to change the subject and talk about a pig that Senator McCain saw at the Iowa State Fair last year. Let that sink in for a minute. (Sure they were actually in Iowa during this discussion, but still.) They go from serious, if somewhat baffling, subject… to a pig.
If you’ve got the stomach for it, Salon’s Glenn Greenwald frequently offers up critiques on the media (amidst other usually interesting political subjects). I’ll link just one example - if you’re interested, check it out.
This might just be what does it. I may have officially seen everything.
I present you with the officially branded Steven Seagal energy drink. Yes, you did read that correctly.
I’m not quite sure what to say, and I’m not particularly interested in learning more. And while Cherry Charge seems like a reasonable flavor, what exactly does he have canned up that he’s calling Asian Experience? The mind boggles…
[Edit:] I know, I said I didn’t want to know more, but I couldn’t help myself. From the page that touts Mr. Seagal as an “Energy Drink Formulator”:
“His album, Songs from the Crystal Cave, released earlier this year, has already hit the pop charts in Europe.”
That sentence, in and of itself is comedy gold. However, I will admit that it led me to check out iTunes on Seagal’s behalf… and honestly, his music isn’t terrible. I know that’s not a ringing endorsement, but I’ve heard much worse. His voice is fine. The music at least feels authentic and not just canned pop. Check it out for yourself, if you’d like…
Ok. Now that I have Wade A’s attention. Kidding, I’m kidding. Well, actually I’m serious about the drinking. Check it out here (scroll down to “Charity Wines”).
There’s so much goodness here that I don’t quite know how to cover it. I guess I’ll go with the old standby: the unordered list. We’ll put that after the jump.
