Mariotti is full of it
''Instead of being in a close game worrying about us trying to come back, they were more excited that they got to boo Hawk,'' Dempster said. ''That was disappointing, and hopefully it doesn't happen again.''

''It was a little classless,'' said Lee, who criticized the home fans earlier this year for booing Baker. ''If you want to boo him when he comes in, fine. But chanting 'Hawkins [bleeps]' for the whole inning is out of line. It's OK to boo someone, but chanting that on and on is overboard.''

Why is it overboard? What do Baker, Lee and Dempster --who've spent all of seven seasons among them in Cubdom -- know about the pain of the fans? How dare these newcomers psychoanalyze and belittle people who've suffered with this franchise just as their parents suffered, their grandparents suffered and their great-grandparents suffered. I've always been amazed Cubs fans don't boo a hell of a lot more. Yankees fans booed Derek Jeter last year. Red Sox fans are killing Manny Ramirez, the reigning World Series MVP, for his latest spell of discontent. When a team hasn't won a Series in 97 years, fans should be booing when they're walking through the turnstiles.

This guy is the worst. What's he talking about here? Does he really think that all the fans that were booing are tortured souls who have waited over 90 years? Come on, most of the fans are drunk morons who have no idea about the history of the team. It's all part of the herd mentality to hate someone whenever they get a chance. Mariotti once again tries to come off as the "voice of the people," and he's terrible at it.

Beltran's slump

Why is he sucking this year? Check out what he said yesterday after getting booed in Houston:

"I want to hit a home run every time up," he said. "Just like I did in the playoffs."

Uhhh...zas is no goot

Yankees
It's nice to see them picking players out of the scrap heap for once. And Nomo was picked out of the Devil Ray's scrap heap.

I like that.

More spam
Girls love sex ;)

Tell me something I don't know...

;')

Ricky Martin to solve stereotype problem for Arabs
Check it out for yourself. My favorite line?

"Those comments are made out of ignorance and we have to sometimes ignore the ignorant, but we also have to educate the ignorant. You have me here as a friend," he said.

Ignore the ignorant? Done.

Ernie Banks
From a great little article on Ernie Banks at http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-050722cubserniebanks,1,7616294.story?coll=chi-sportsnew-hed

"Sometimes I say this to my close friends, I say, 'I don't believe I suffered enough in my life,"' Banks said. "They say, 'What do you mean you didn't suffer enough?' I see people in other parts of the world, they have no shoes, sleep on the floor, no food. That's real suffering. When I see some people struggling, I have empathy for them, but they really don't know what the bottom is."

"I know my life is like seeing the world through rose-colored glasses and I don't see the world like the general public sees it," Banks said. "Sometimes I feel like an alien."

Hands free
Now you walk around and a lot people are wearing these things, especially those futuristic-looking, around-the-ear contraptions. What does it mean? It means that talking on the phone is no longer a "thing" that we do. You're no longer "on the phone" or "making a call," you simply are. Talking on the phone has become as natural and unobtrusive as breathing, it's just what we do - we don't even think about it.

Which, to me, is scary.

Creepy
These pictures they are putting out now of the London bombers moments before detonation are very creepy. It freaks me out. It's kind of like Faces of Death.

Creepy
These pictures they are putting out now of the London bombers moments before detonation are very creepy. It freaks me out. It's kind of like Faces of Death.

Hi MIndy!
Hi!

Uh Oh
I have the hiccups and they won't stop!

Plus, Yahoo Mail is now blocked on my computer. I wonder how these things get blocked all the sudden like that.

Weird.