Creationism vs Evolution
Topic: Religion
This is a must read for anyone interested in this debate, especially for the religious nuts who think "intelligent design" is science.

How can they argue with the Vatican?

Cubs sign Eyre
So this means Rusch is definitely in the mix for the rotation. That creates a mix of Wood (if and when healthy), Prior, Zambrano, Maddux, Williams, Hill, and any free agent they may sign or a guy they may trade for.

Which I think is unlikely.

The news today on the Furcal front is that Chipper Jones re-did his contract to give the Braves more flexibility.

IF Furcal doesn't come that leaves Cedeno at short (with Neifi in back) and Todd Walker at 2B. Still no leadoff hitter. I assume they'll go hard at Pierre if that happens, trade Corey and also get Mench.

Leaving a lineup of:

Pierre CF
Walker 2B
Lee 1B
Ramirez 3B
Mench RF
Murton LF
Barrett C
Cedeno SS

Which is VERY right-handed, maybe putting Murton in the 2 hole would be best and shift Walker back behind Ramirez or something.

If Furcal shows:

Furcal SS
Murton LF
Lee 1B
Ramirez 3B
Mench? RF
Barrett C
Cedeno 2B
Patterson CF

And Walker gets traded to help with the Mench deal or for someone else.

Either way that's still the problem we had in 2004 with the lack of a left handed protector in the middle of the order...

At least the defense will be better

Roger Ebert
Topic: Movies
Here is a tiny blurb of a review Roger Ebert wrote on his website about the movie "Zathura":

The opening credits of "Zathura" are closeups of an old science-fiction board game, a game that should have existed in real life and specifically in my childhood, but which was created for this movie. In these days of high-tech video games, it's remarkable that kids once got incredibly thrilled while pushing little metal racing cars around a cardboard track: The toy car was yours, and you invested it with importance and enhanced it with fantasy and pitied it because it was small, like you were.

That last line hit me pretty hard, that's some good shit right there!

Free speech issue?
There is an Austrian law that says you can't deny the Holocaust existed.

That's crazy! Isn't that a free speech concern? I understand the delicacy of the issue, and I'm all down for booing people like this, but putting them in jail?

Seems a little "Hitler-ish" to me.

My spelling mistakes on here
For those that haven't noticed, there are a lot of spelling mistakes on this blog, which is probably weird since I claim to want to be a writer.

But here's the thing. This isn't "writing" for me. This is about getting something that's in my head, out. Getting it out. That's all.

Plus I detest revising, once it's out and I've dealt with it or written about it, it bores me to have to go back and deal with it again.

So Fluck you.

Guatemala gets thrashed
Topic: Baseball
Lost 23-0 to the USA yesterday in the Olympic qualifying tournament. Chris Lambert, a Boston College grad, one hit Guatemala and struck out nine.

Ouch.

I wan't wait to get a box score and see who's on the team these days.

Tupac: Resurrection
Got to see this documentary the other day, it's really good. Which surprised me because of the amount and quality of the stuff that has come out on him since he died. It's all been very low quality and exploitative.

But the Oscar nomination gave me the go ahead to see it and it's really good. The eery thing about it is how he narrates the whole thing (Tupac does), even after he's dead. Very prophetic.

He was a passionate person and not nearly as violent and "gangsta" as his music would lead you to believe.

Trendy
Topic: Baseball
It's become the trendy thing to do to vehemently disagree with the choice of AL MVP, Alex Rodriguez.

I don't like the guy. With his squeaky clean image and rugged good looks. Plus that contract. I don't.

But he was the MVP. He had the better numbers. Everyone (and Ryne Sandberg again in my doghouse) is saying that Ortiz deserved it and was robbed because of two factors:

- Ortiz is a DH
- Ortiz was the better clutch hitter

The first argument could probably hold water. After all, how valuable are you if you only play half the game? But my contention is that, if the second argument is really that good, then Ortiz should've won the MVP.

But it isn't.

If you look at the numbers that measure "clutch performances," Ortiz does have an edge. A slight edge. The thing is that people don't look at these numbers. They watch sportscenter, and they see Ortiz's heroics down the stretch. And that reminds them of what he did last year...and so on.

It's a mirage.

Ortiz was awesome. But so was AROD. ARod hit for a better average, had a higher OBP, and stole 20 bags to boot. Ortiz? He may have stolen some of his teammates fried chicken, but that's about it.

ARod wins the MVP because he has the edge in baserunning, steals, defense, AND offense. Ortiz had a slight edge in a couple offensive categories and in one particular category I like to call HYPE.

More Spam
Topic: Spam
Now this is just straight up classic:

Your wife prefers your dog’s penis to yours?

I like how it's in the form of a question too, all empathetic and shit.

Well no I don't, officer
Topic: Spam
Thinking of driving in that condition, sir?

Have no idea what that was about.