tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153623622011-11-13T09:27:08.184-05:00My take on the sports news and occasionally, news of the weird.beisbolcthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18402612246493368608noreply@blogger.comBlogger701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15362362.post-1158647810434726852006-09-19T02:34:00.000-04:002006-09-19T02:36:50.443-04:00

Random Thoughts will be moving its home to a new address effective immediately. The new site address is http://randomthoughts.ianbethune.comFor now the new site is under construction but is usable. The old site will remain active for a little while. You will see some new changes already on the new site with categories added.

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Who should be this years American League MVP? David Ortiz or Derek Jeter?Sound off in the comments section.

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Kinda like the luck of my dating life being a day late and a dollar short, I'd like to offer a belated congratulations to UCONN Women's Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma on his induction to the Basketball Hall of Fame.Geno was inducted to the Hall of Fame this past Friday night with along Charles "Round Mound of Rebound" Barkley, Dominique "Human Highlight Film" Wilkins, Joe "Good Boy of the Bad

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Taken from Rotoworld.com,"Derek Jeter didn't put a ball in play in four trips to the plate, yet somehow left the contest with his career-best 21-game hitting streak intact. With three walks and one hit by pitch, he did not actually record an official at-bat, so according to the rules, the hit-streak is still alive. Talk about a case of 'you know things are going you're way when…'"That has to be

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Please take a moment sometime during the day today to remember the victims and countless heroes of the fateful day known as 9-11-01.Happy Birthday to all those born on this date... Let our celebration of life be a reminder to those that attempted to break us that we are still standing proudly and believe that America is the best place to live!! (That means you MOM!)Please don't forget our troops

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Good news for Red Sox fans as golden boy Jonathan Papelbon has what is called in baseball terms, "dead arm." In case you don't know what "dead arm" is, Red Sox medical director, Thomas Gill defines it as:"the ball of the shoulder joint had slipped slightly forward, but not completely out of the joint to the point where it would be considered a dislocation"Right now the idea is to keep Papelbon

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As the Red Sox were finishing up getting their asses handed to them by the Chicago White Sox tonight, Red Sox former farmhand and current Florida Marlin, Anibal Sanchez was putting the final touches on his first career no hitter in only his 13th MLB start.In case you didn't know, Sanchez was part of the Josh Beckett/Mike Lowell trade that happened over last off-season. Also in that deal was

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Good news for the Boston Red Sox as David "Big Papi" Ortiz is setting his sights on returning to the Sox lineup on Tuesday. Ortiz has been out of action all this week after a reoccurrence of his heart palpitations. Ortiz flew back to Boston on Monday and underwent a battery of tests to determine if there was anything wrong with his heart. All tests came back negative and his problem was

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Just a quick post to anyone who has tried to sign up for the blog updates, i had the wrong address up there. The link on the side has been corrected.

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Well after undergoing tests for cancer, Jon Lester was diagnosed with a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a blood cancer. Lester will begin treatment for the disease this week. It is not known what stage he is at right now but because he is only 22, the odds for recovery are much greater. Look for Mike Lowell to give Lester advice on dealing with the cancer, as Lowell is a survivor of

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Well yesterday was the first UCONN football game for the 2006 season and the Huskies opened up their season against the Rams of Rhode Island, a Div 1-AA school.As usual the boys were out in force again, tailgating it up. There was even a fantasy football draft. Anyways, this is a quick post right now because I am on dial-up internet access. I think dial up should be outlawed because this is so

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Some troubling news out of the Red Sox camp last night, as rookie pitcher, Jon Lester, may be battling cancer according to a Boston Herald article.Lester had been placed on the DL with some back trouble that stemmed from a minor car accident he was in before a game against the Evil Empire. According to NECN TV, Lester was complaining to his brother about not feeling right and his brother told

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Image taken from Boston Dirt Dogs

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Where was tonight's starting line-up of the Boston Red Sox playing at the start of this season.1. Coco Crisp: Boston Red Sox starting CF2. Alex Cora: Boston Red Sox bench player3. Mark Loretta: Boston Red Sox starting 2B4. Kevin Youkilis: Boston Red Sox starting 1B5. Eric Hinske: Toronto Blue Jays bench player6. Mike Lowell: Boston Red Sox starting 3B7. Carlos Pena: released by the Detroit

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Is anyone else worried that our beloved Red Sox probably will not make the postseason this year? I know I am worried about it. I will note for the record, that I haven't given up yet. To make matters worse, Big Papi was sent home from Oakland today to be reexamined for an irregular heartbeat. Although it wasn't announced to the press til later, back when the Yankees were in town last weekend,

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With almost 50% of your votes, Mel Thomas(seen above accepting her 2005 Preseason WNIT MVP Trophy with UCONN AD Jeff Hathaway), UCONN women's basketball player, has won the hottest player on the team. Tahirah Williams finished with 25% of the vote and Cassie Kerns received 15% of the votes. See picture below for total results.Many thanks to the Deadspinners who voted again and to all the loyal

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VOTING WILL END ON SATURDAY August 26th at midnight. Get your last minute votes in. Be sure to hit vote now at the bottom after you check the player you are voting for. I am working on making the poll a little bit smaller. Who is the hottest player on the 2006-2007 UCONN women's basketball team? Tahirah Williams Ketia Swanier Brittany Hunter Cassie Kerns Charde

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MISSING: The Boston Red Sox. If found, please return to Fenway Park.

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The Sox in search of some left handed power off the bench traded for 1B/OF Eric Hinske from the Toronto Blue Jays and also signed away Carlos Pena from the NY Spankees AAA affiliate in Columbus. It is unsure what the Red Sox gave up to get Hinske who was a late scratch from Toronto's game tonight. (I was wondering why he wasn't in my fantasy lineup tonight after being listed as starting.)The Sox

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I know that most of my posts are about sports related stuff but this is something that has caught my eye. If you are looking to either get divorced or breakup with your bf/gf, get your own MTV reality show.In a trend started by Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson, Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro, Shanna Moakler and Travis Barker, have followed suit in planning on getting divorced. While Nick and

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Do you wonder if people who speak foreign languages translate the words in their head before speaking them?

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While its nothing new to me that I got mentioned on Deadspin.com as I have been an avid reader of the blog since it's birth. My reason for letting everyone know that I was mentioned on Deadspin, is more for the new readers of the blog than the loyal few. As I start to spend more time reading and blogging, I do hope the readers will go up. It's not like I have that much to do with my time as I

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Recently, my blog, Random Thoughts, was featured on Vizuble . The article detailed the results of my most recent poll, Who was the hottest female sportscaster or sideline reporter? That contest was won by Erin Andrews. To see the article, click here to check it out.

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Let me know what you think of the new look. There is still some minor tweaking to be done and some things to be added. Feel free to leave your thoughts about the new look.In the coming days, I will be putting up a new poll. This time, you will be voting for the Hottest UCONN Women's basketball player on the 2006-2007 roster. If anyone has any pictures of Jacquie Fernandes and Meghan Gardler

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In a deal done today, Javy Lopez has been traded to the Red Sox for a mid-level minor league prospect. The only hold up with the deal right now is getting the player the Sox are trading thru the waiver wire.With Jason Varitek going down for 4-6 weeks with knee surgery and the Red Sox trading Kelly Shoppach to the Indians in the Coco Crisp deal, really had no catching help to back up Doug "

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Well the votes are in for the Hottest Female Sportscaster or Sideline Reporter. With 25.1% of the 690 votes cast, Erin Andrews emerged as the victor. Many thanks to all the people who voted, especially all the Deadspinners.In the coming days and weeks, look for new polls to vote on.

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Coming soon to Random Thoughts will be another poll. This time dealing with who is the hottest UCONN women's player on the 2006-2007 roster. Also another thing that will be appearing on Random Thoughts is the 2006 Hottest Female Celebrity Tournament. 64 females will be chosen and randomly drawn into an NCAA style bracket and work their way thru the first round, the Gorgeous 32, the Hot 16,

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VOTING HAS NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR VOTINGWho is the hottest female sportscaster or sideline reporter?Bonnie BernsteinColleen DominguezErin AndrewsJill ArringtonMelissa StarkSam RyanStacey DalesSummer SandersSuzy KolberTina CervasioWeb Polls by Vizu Results

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A tremendous takeaway by the Texas Ranger's centerfielder, Gary Matthews, JR.

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In all my years of working in minor league baseball, I saw my share of manager tirades when being ejected, but this one here takes the cake.

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The Boston Red Sox head into the four game series with the Yanks tonight with a half a game lead in the standings. While the Sox have some injuries of their own, the Yanks are really banged up. AROD missed two games with the flu. Johnny Demon has a bad toe. Mariano Rivera has back spasms stemming from trying to tie his cleats. Jason Giambi with a stomach bug. Derek Jeter was hit by a pitch

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Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there.

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Welcome back to the Sox, Doug Mirabelli. Theo Esptein today traded Josh Bard, Cla Meredith and either cash or a player to be named to get back Doug Mirabelli to be Wake's personal catcher. Essentially this means the original trade for Mark Loretta is now Loretta for Bard, Meredith and the other considersations. Not a bad deal at all.While I am a big fan of Mirabelli, he is not the reason why

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Well this is the day Sox fans have been waiting for...I am sure that May 1st has been circled on the schedules of the Sox Nation fans since Johnny Demon signed with the Yankees.This is a pivotal early season series for both teams as they enter the game tomorrow night in a virtual tie for first place. Unfortunately for the Sox, the man who replaced Demon, Coco Crisp, is still out with a thumb

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Courtesty of Deadspin

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After a long trip around the world alla Rickey Willams(minus the pot smoking for me), I am back and refreshed. You can look for me to be spending a lot of time writing about the upcoming baseball season for the Sox and UCONN's NCAA tournament experiences.....Other things in the works include a few audio blogs once i figure out how to make them, and more witty things from me....So sit back and

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Welcome back Theo. You have been severely missed.Theo's back as he accepted a position in the baseball operations department. Although its not been announced what role he will take in the organization, one can only hope it is in helping the team get better for 2006 with what's left of the free agent pool.The Red Sox will have a press conference next week to announce what Theo will be doing and

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OK, we are about one month for the reporting date for the pitchers and catchers of the Red Sox and yet we still have no one to play centerfield and shortstop. The Sox however have filled the need at first base with the signing of JT Snow. Snow brings the Sox his Gold Glove 1b skills and a pretty decent bat. A potential infield of Snow at 1b, Loretta at 2nd, Cora? at SS and Lowell at 3b is a scary

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After a much needed vacation to parts unknown, I have returned to the world of blogging and will continue on with my thoughts. I originally started this blog as because I always have so much to say about sports especially UCONN and the Red Sox. Even though it is my take on sports, I will still continue to write about some adventures that I encounter. So stay tuned as new words of Ian come about.

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I hope everyone has a safe and happy new year's. I will be back in 2006 with lots more posts and some interesting new things...One thing I will be working on is an audio blog..

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Well the Sox lost out on another free agent again, as Kevin Millwood signed a deal with the Texas Rangers. Once again the Red flops have undervalued another player. The Sox felt that he was only worth a 3 yr $30 million dollar contract, while the Rangers gave him a 4 yr $48 million dollar contract with a vesting option for the fifth year.While the season hasn't even started yet and we don't know

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OK I am actually writing this blog during the UCONN-Morehead State basketball game and it makes me wonder, why does UCONN schedule games likes this. We are actually paying Morehead State $90,000 to play this game. The Morehead State coach didn’t even want to play this game. He felt his team was not to the level of UCONN. Well he was right about that one. There are only a select number of teams in

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Well the Red Sox showed the Yankees something last night by signing John Flaherty to a contract. This will hurt the Yankees because Flaherty was Randy Johnson's personal catcher. Oh by the way, I did forget to mention that Flaherty wasn't in the Yankee's plans for next year as they had signed Kelly Stinnet as a free agent who was Randy's catcher with the Diamondbacks.What is going on with the

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What a way to wake up this morning. I had an offline message from a Yankees fan telling me the bad news. Johnny Damon is going to sign a 4 year $52 million contract with the New York Yankees.The freaking Yankees are you kidding me. The Yanks hadn't done a thing on the free agent front all off season and then I have to wake up to this crap. Steinbrenner had been complaining the whole time about

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Ummm did I sleep thru something? Did they take the city of Boston and move it out west? Reports are the Los Angeles Dodgers have signed Nomar Garciaparra to a 1 yr contract to play first base.This now makes 4 former members of the Boston Red Sox who are now members of the LA Dodgers (Bill Mueller, Derek Lowe, Grady Little and Nomar Garciaparra.) Three of the four have World Series rings from

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I have created a yahoo groups page that will send you a notification as to when the site has been updated. If you are not a member of yahoo, it is ok..To sign up, send an email to this address: updates-random-thoughts-subscribe@yahoogroups.comwhen you receive the confirmation email, click on the link to the sign up page and it will give you an option to sign in as a yahoo member or for the

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Have you ever gotten a parking ticket for parking where your not supposed to? And do you think to yourself, this fine is a little ridiculous? If you do, don't be like this idiot.This guy in Portsmouth, New Hampshire received a parking ticket for parking in a handicapped spot, which carries a $100 fine. There's a few arguments here that I will present later about that issue in itself but for now I

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Well still no word on the Nomar front as to where he is going to sign. Rumors were that he was going to have a decision by Thursday. Stay tuned because if he does sign with the Yanks, everyone will be invited to my Nomar jersey burning ceremony.In other news, the Doug Mientkiewicz-Red Sox ball saga is now heading to arbitration. The Red Sox dropped the lawsuit that they had in court and instead

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I am going to stray from the sports and news of the weird posts tonight as I give my two cents on The Apprentice Finale tonight.What a crock of shit Randall is? He had the chance to give Rebecca another chance and yet decided to steal the show tonight and say to a national tv audience that the show was about hiring one apprentice and not two.To me this was the best Apprentice yet. The final two

beisbolcthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18402612246493368608noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15362362.post-1134706536641957702005-12-14T23:14:00.000-05:002005-12-15T23:16:43.503-05:00

when are finals going to be over? i am going thru some serious withdrawl. there are only so many times i can watch "Codebreakers" on ESPN.only 6 days til the bowl games start.........

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Well for those who don't read the sports page, one of the teams interested in Nomar's services next year are the NY Yankees or as I commonly refer to them, the Spankees.Why Nomar, why would you even consider this? It's not like you need the money. Are you bitter still about the trade from the Red Sox last year? You would be the third best shortstop on the team and yet not playing shortstop.I can

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This rebuttal comes from a contributing editor, Marc Agdish, who wanted to give his rebuttal to a post i made earlier.Rebuttal to "Who Owns The Ball".....After giving much consideration it is this novice's opinion that the Red Sox are the third in line for possession of the famed ball. My thoughts are that the famed ball should be owned by the following parties.1) MLB Baseball--Since this game

beisbolcthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18402612246493368608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15362362.post-1134164045606979742005-12-09T16:13:00.000-05:002005-12-09T17:21:39.456-05:00

Fresh off the presses from Germany comes the 2006 World Cup Draw. The 8 seeded teams were Germany, England, Argentina, Mexico, Italy, Brazil, France, and Spain. The USA just missed out on being one of the top eight seeds by 1 point even though they finished higher in qualifying then Mexico.The USA (8th in the world) has a tough road ahead of them as Group E as the Czech Republic is the 2nd ranked

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Was this the end of the line for the U game, which features UCONN and UMASS? According to Jim Calhoun, yes this was the last of the games. He had stated that if his Huskies had lost this game tonight, then he would continue the series. But with tonight's win over the Minutemen, the U Game by MassMutual will no longer happen. Rumor is UCONN will be looking to set up games with its neighbors to the

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Just a quick note for Sox fans. The Red Sox have traded Edgar Renteria to the Atlanta Braves for minor league 3B prospect, Andy Marte.I don't understand this trade at all. Yes, the Sox overpayed when they signed Renteria to a 4 yr 40 million dollar contract. But why give up on him after 1 year. I think the Sox should have tried to stick it out one more year with Renteria. It is hard to adjust

beisbolcthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18402612246493368608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15362362.post-1133897041411628322005-12-06T14:19:00.000-05:002005-12-08T12:47:43.216-05:00

Wanted by this blog site. If you have seen this "person", please contact us immediately. He is wanted to write his posts since he has gone incognito as you can see by the picture. He was last spotted in Newington, CT on Saturday afternoon before attending the UCONN-Louisville football game..He is not to be considered "armed and dangerous" but only dangerous. Please contact this site if you have

beisbolcthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18402612246493368608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15362362.post-1134063978566539182005-12-04T12:18:00.000-05:002005-12-08T12:46:18.576-05:00

Well to answer the question of did we "Top That Tailgate" its a tough call. Given the fact that the weather conditions were downright nasty and the wind was blowing at 15 mph, we did our absolute best to stay warm while enjoying some food and cocktails.We did prepare well for this game. We were smart enough to bring a tarp for the tent to block the wind (As evidenced in the background of the

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Ok, I have been pretty lazy the past week in writing posts and I am working on some right now but I thought I had to weigh in with my two cents on the ownership of the The Ball That Broke The Curse. As you Red Sox fans now, Doug Mientkiewicz ended up in possession of the ball and never reliquinshed it after the game to the Red Sox. The Sox ownership has made a big stink as to who is the

beisbolcthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18402612246493368608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15362362.post-1133291924195673532005-11-28T13:30:00.000-05:002005-12-01T16:48:20.856-05:00

One thing I can say about my friends is that they really know how to tailgate. Take this weekends UCONN-South Florida game for an example. First off, we were trying to get into the red lot behind our seats but for some strange reason we weren't allowed to go where we wanted to park. Of course that's probably because no one listened to me that we had to go in on the other side of Rentschler Field.

beisbolcthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18402612246493368608noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15362362.post-1132765430245020122005-11-23T00:00:00.000-05:002005-11-23T12:03:50.256-05:00

Any of you out there who are members of Red Sox Nation and think you can do a better job than Theo did as GM of the Red Sox. Well feel free to check out this online application to be the next Boston Red Sox GM. The good people at Boston.com have brought you a chance to apply for the Red Sox GM position. According to the article, their holding company owns a 17 percent stake in the ownership of

beisbolcthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18402612246493368608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15362362.post-1132633711124940202005-11-21T23:24:00.000-05:002005-11-21T23:34:32.976-05:00

As I step back into the real world for a moment, I would like to ask everyone to include the families of the fallen officers of the Newington, CT police force in your prayers. Tonight, the 2nd officer in 11 months on the Newington Police force was shot and killed. To read more about the first, please click here.

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Well i passed this along (top half) to my friends at Deadspin and they decided not to use this one as there were alot of good sports stories out there this weekend. Anyways the picture to the left was a prank done by Virginia Tech fans the night before the annual Commonwealth Cup game held each year between Tech and the University of Virginia. Seems some unknown Virginia Tech fans snuck into

beisbolcthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18402612246493368608noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15362362.post-1132303791646549162005-11-18T03:49:00.000-05:002005-11-18T04:04:25.603-05:00

Ok this one was too good to pass up.  Radish in intensive care after murder attempt.  No, Radish is not the person’s last name but the rather the vegetable which we so enjoy in our salads.  Seems a small town in Japan had a radish growing along the side of the road. Is this normal you ask, I would have to think having vegetation growing out of the road is normal yes but the townspeople admired

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The other day I was sitting at home and the phone rings. I look down at the caller ID and see its my mom calling so I answer it figuring she's got something to nag me about now. Turns out she called me because she thinks I would be a great candidate to replace Theo Epstein as general manager of the Boston Red Sox. She did make some valuable arguments as to why I could be GM. I am a lifelong

beisbolcthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18402612246493368608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15362362.post-1132249647333048452005-11-17T12:41:00.000-05:002005-11-18T03:52:34.870-05:00

Well let me start out by saying, this will be my first post with my blog. A lot of people have been telling me that I should write a blog about my take on some sports issues.  One of my friends has told me I should take some of the stories from deadspin and put my own take on them or expand them.  Others have told me that I would be good at this from the commentaries I wrote on our softball site.

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