I know this is late, but I can’t help it.

 

The Ballad of Kenny Rogers:

 

You got to know when to scuff ‘em,

Know when to grease ‘em,

Know when to tar ‘em,

Know when to wash.

 

You never punch the camera man

When you’re sittin’ at the table.

There’ll be time enough for punchin’

During the warm ups.

 

Thank you.  I'll be here all week.  Tip your waitress.

St. Louis and Detroit in the World Series.  This should be good, but I’m not sure if the Cardinals can win this one.  This is the seventeenth World Series for the Cardinals.  Of the previous sixteen they won 9.  St. Louis is behind only the Yankees for number of appearances and wins in the World Series.  I made somewhat of a flippant comment earlier in the week about how St. Louis is trying to become the next Atlanta Braves by winning their division every year and going to the playoffs but never really making much of it past that.  I don’t really believe that, but my opinion might swing towards that if St. Louis gets swept the same way they did two years ago.  Unlike two years ago, I don’t see Detroit fans coming out of the woodwork all of the sudden.  If they win the World Series, maybe that will change, but they won’t be like all the Boston fans.  Except for a few people that I know who are actually from the Boston area, all the other “fans” have put away their stuff because their team didn’t make the playoffs.

 

I would have liked to have seen an MLB postseason commercial with Tommy Lasorda telling a Boston fan to pull his head out of the oven instead of some girl to get out of the bathroom.  The Yankee remark was a little funny.  The one he did with the Cubs fan was classic.

 

Tommy: “How long has he been up there?”

Woman: “Since his team was eliminated from the postseason.”

Tommy: “Hit it, kid.  Real fans don’t hide in October, Frank.  What’s his team?”

Woman: “The Cubbies.”

Tommy: “Ooofh!”

 

Watch if over and over again

Cardinals are going to the World Series.  Will wonders never cease?

Seriously now, the Mets should have taken care of them in 5-6 games.  Amazing what October can do for a team.

I’m bad about posting things.  I guess not enough happens to get me on here more than once or twice a week.  I should start putting pictures up or something like that.

 

Is it just more, or are the St. Louis Cardinals turning into this decade’s Atlanta Braves.  Maybe the team will win the World Series once in the next 12 years of winning the NL Central.  Actually, I don’t see them winning their division year after year like Atlanta did. 

 

I'm glad I don't live in Buffalo.

 

Email spam – gotta love it.  I’ve noticed trends with spam.  First it was the sexually explicit spam.  Then it was the “increase sperm volume” spam.  Some of those were pretty funny.  Then I started getting spam that looked serious, using headlines from very recent news stories.  I was also getting the drug spam in which a letter or two was changed so you could tell it was spam.  I would see a lot of “VlkAGRA” or “CeeALIS”.  Now I’m getting sports themes.  In today’s inbox:

 

“Luge Irish Dance”

“DMX Racing Sports Aerobatics”

“Team Sports Steeplechase”

“Hurling Marching Band”

 

I opened all of these emails and was disappointed by each one.  I would have really liked to see how Irish dancing on a luge was done.  Very disappointing.

A news article from the Associated Press says that the American Academy of Pediatrics says children really need playtime for healthy development.  Let the kids go out and play instead of forcing them to learn three different languages at the age of 4.  Play releaves stress and decreases the chance of obesity.

 

So, why can't we have recess at work?  Just a half hour after lunch.  Oh wait, I don't even stop for lunch most days. 

 

I want to be a kid again.  Whoever said your best years are after you are a teenager must have had parents that made them do math problems on Saturday morning as a child.

It took longer to get something up this week than normal – my service provider decided to move the login page for editing and not bother letting anyone know.  Now that is customer service!

 

I’ve got two more examples of why Utah is such and interesting place – kidnapping and nude dancing.

 

Everyone has heard about the kidnapping.  As far as those things go, this was pretty minor and was resolved in a little over 24 hours.  I’m not sure why it made the national news like it did.  All I’m going to say about it is this: a few more events like this and Utah will take Montana’s place as ‘Land of the Free and Home of the Insane’. 

 

This second one may interest only me.  Last week the Supreme Court of the United States decided not to consider a lawsuit brought by several Utah exotic dancers required by city ordinance to wear G-strings and pasties.  What really got my attention was this one line written by Robert Gehrke of the Salt Lake Tribune; “By refusing to hear the case, the court left intact a South Salt Lake city ordinance passed in 2001 that prohibits nudity in sexually oriented businesses, preventing dancers at American Bush and other South Salt Lake clubs from taking it all off.”

 

Wait a second.  No nudity at a sexually oriented business?  Sexually oriented businesses are known as SOBs in Salt Lake.  No one on the City Council finds this ironic when they specifically say SOB during a council meeting.  But not having nudity in a strip club sounds like not allowing basketball in a basketball arena.  That just sounds stupid – but in reality the women have to wear pasties and G-strings.  That doesn’t leave much to the imagination, but it still seems silly.  They might as well be naked at that point. 

 

Also, notice the name of the strip club?  American Bush.  If that name doesn’t tell you what goes no there, not much else would.  But then again, if they are wearing G-strings, then that name might be false advertising. 

 

Utah: it may not make sense, but it sure is amusing.