Skillsets and deliverables

Have you noticed that successful middle managers (and Sean Hannity) who have lots of skillsets and deliverables AND who live in the suburbs for reasons having nothing to do with public schools AND who choose to dine out at the Texas Roadhouse on purpose TEND to have humor and/or creative deficiencies? Sometimes these good Americans even get ANGRY at you if they sense you're doing/saying someting smart, interesting or fun. Kurt Vonnegut would have said this response is akin to dressing up in a full suit of body armor in order to attack a banana split. He probably would have said the same thing about baseball bloggers who constantly complain about everything and attack their favorite teams.

Having said all that, Brett Tomko sucks. We guess he was OK last night, but he still sucks. And do you really think he's going to do anything but suck once the season starts?

You know what sucks even worse than Brett Tomko? The Padres announcers, that's what. Listening on XM last night, we're pretty sure the one guy was on cocaine. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) ANYWAY, we hope the Padres finish last this year just because we can't stand their announcers. BTW, we think the Royals would make the playoffs THIS YEAR if they played in the NL. Really.

SO we have decided this will be an afternoon blog. The posts will go up in the late morning or in the PM.

Here are a few links for today:

RANY thinks Alex Gordon has the skillset to deliver a lot of long home runs.

THE KURODA JUMP got Ball Star surfing the You Tubes for other amazing feats of courage and skill.

P.S. Our favorite college professor (who, unfortunately, is no longer with us) taught according to digressions. Her famous digressions were so much more valuable than the standard material we were supposed to be covering. She was also a spectacular chainsmoker, like Kurt Vonnegut, and a genius.

P.P.S. The only other spectacular chainsmoker we know (in addition to us) is our dad, who is also, incidentally, responsible for making us a Royals fan.

P.P.P.S. The only other genius we know is our good friend Rob McElmurry, who is a Mets fan.

P.P.P.P.S. OK, our son's cousin is a certifiable genius, too, but he's only 9, and he's not yet a chainsmoker.*

*The Royal We is officially starting to make us sound like Gollum.