Baseball 2009

[Pam]

What a game!!! Is Cliff Lee a pitching machine or what!! How about those two catches he made! Last night was also Chase's night. That's what I love about these guys. When one has an off night another one of our guys steps in and "gets it done." One game down and three to go! GO PHILLIES!!!

[pomtzu]

WOW!! What a game!

I'm afraid to say any more than that. I don't want to jinx them....

[Grace]

Cliff Lee is simply the coolest dude out there

[Pam]

Cliff Lee is simply the coolest dude out there

He puts the Energizer Bunny to shame!

A YouTube video for Phillies fans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To8sHEjJetk

[RICHARD]

Are you back again?

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I was in the kitchen when CL caught the ball behind his back.

That was soooooo Hollywood it wasn't amazing..

That's the kind of S that happens when you all your stars are lined up and waiting for you to react.

You just have to show up, get dressed and drag your arse onto mound.

Nothing to it, really!

[RICHARD]

Doesn't 'Melke Cabrera' sound like a rum drink you'd get in the Carribean?

[Grace]

My favorite Tiger - Curtis Granderson.

[Pam]

Are you back again?

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Of course!

I just heard on the news that in addition to a possible mass transit strike in Philadelphia tomorrow, plus possible rain in the evening, that several players (on both teams) have the flu. Gregg Dobbs was sent home as was Tyler Walker. Apparently Pedro Martinez pitched last night while feeling sick.

[Grace]

There is other baseball news . . . . . . . .

More about my favorite Tiger -

Granderson donates book to schools
Tigers star wants to promote reading for Michigan youth

By Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com
When Tigers center fielder Curtis Granderson set out to create a children's book, his goals had nothing to do with profit -- he simply wanted to get kids excited about learning.

His new book "All You Can Be: Dream It, Draw It, Become It!" is being distributed free of charge to public elementary school libraries in Michigan, a recent article on the Michigan Department of Education Web site stated.

Copies of the book are being donated by Granderson and Chicago-based publisher Triumph Books.

Illustrations in the book were contributed by fourth-grade students across the state. A contest was held to pick the artwork, as hundreds of children contributed drawings and Granderson selected 29. The theme for the illustrations was: How do you see yourself when you are in high school, and how is education important to helping you become that person?

Granderson, who grew up on the south side of Chicago, is the son of two schoolteachers and learned the importance of education at an early age. All of the net proceeds from the public sale of the books go to Granderson's foundation, Grand Kids Foundation.

"There was one simple thing I wanted to achieve with 'All You Can Be' -- to make learning fun for school children," Granderson was quoted as saying on the Web site. "My mother, Mary, co-author Terry Foster and I truly feel we have accomplished what we set out to do, which was to make learning fun through using creative and different ways to get Michigan's elementary school students thinking about their future."

[Pam]

We need a miracle.

[RICHARD]

We need a miracle.

Look, the most obvious solution is sitting in front of you.



Ready?

Dear Baseball Jesus,

A seven game WS with the last game going 17 innings would be just great for the fans, the networks and the MLB.

Thank You and Amen.


See, was that hard?

[pomtzu]

I'm not a pessimist - but - I think the party is over.

Nice try, Richard, but I think your little prayer is just too little, too late.

[RICHARD]

I'm not a pessimist - but - I think the party is over.

Nice try, Richard, but I think your little prayer is just too little, too late.

Wait a minute,

I can't cancel that, so you will have to live with me should my prayers be answered?

Pam will back me up.....

[pomtzu]

Wait a minute,

I can't cancel that, so you will have to live with me should my prayers be answered?

Pam will back me up.....

Deal!!!!

But I don't think that stands a chance of a snowball in h3ll..

[RICHARD]

Woman 'offered sex for World Series tickets'

A US woman charged with offering sex for World Series tickets on the Craigslist website says she did nothing wrong and still hopes to make the game.



Susan Finkelstein, 43, was arrested after meeting an undercover police officer responding to the advertisement in a bar, reports the Daily Telegraph.

"I didn't do anything wrong, so I'm not embarrassed about my actions. I'm embarrassed about how I was arrested," she said.

The University of Pennsylvania graduate said she had wanted to take her husband to a baseball game between her beloved Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees.

The self-described "buxom blonde" said she was simply trying to score tickets online, as she had in the past.

Ms Finkelstein told WPVI-TV: "I was hoping to get cheap tickets, maybe meet someone, and talk, and bat my eyelashes and maybe get some tickets."

Her lawyer William J Brennan said his client was merely "a nice lady overcome with Phillies fever".

She might have dropped double entendres in her Craigslist advertisement but never explicitly offered sex, he added.

Mr Brennan hopes to get the misdemeanour charge of promoting prostitution dismissed.

"If somebody read into that posting a sexual connotation, that's on them. There's no overt sexual reference," he said.


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"a nice lady overcome with Phillies fever".

What does THAT mean?

I got tons of jokes for that story....

I'm going to sleep.