While the Royals and Tony Pena Jr. were storming back to claim victory over the mighty Twins in extra-innings, we were catching largemouths, smallmouths and goggle-eyes. A friend of ours also caught a catfish -- on a plastic worm thingy! We love the river and we love fishing in it. The proximity to streams is one big benefit of living in the Ozarks. Years ago, we used to wade and fish the river alone all of the time. There's something about the man versus fish quality of landing a nice one that nobody else will ever know about. But too many close encounters with snakes convinced us that we should stop wading and fishing alone. (Just noticed that part of this is starting to sound Freudian.) We're not worried about drowning or anything like that; we're just worried about the snakes. And what if we got hurt somehow or had a heart attack or something? And then there's the crazy drunk hillbillies that actually live down by the river and hunt people. So now we have to find someone to go fishing with our paranoid and possibly schizophrenic selves, and it has to be someone who understands bass and nature and jokes and doesn't act the fool or talk too much. (And we're not into fancy fly fishing, though we suppose it's OK for trout; we prefer ultra-lights, finesse lures and setting the hook like a man.) So we go fishing a lot less than we used to. But fortunately we still know a few people.
Just read on Mellinger's blog that Moose Tacos is supposed to be a better hitter than Alex Gordon with a better swing. Great. Now that Gordon and Butler aren't really living up to the hype (weren't they supposed to be pretty much can't miss super stars?) at least we still have Moose Tacos to look forward to. And then Hosmer. If he signs.
Why are the Twins consistently so much better than us? Answer: They make good trades and they always have a good manager.
Gordon really looks like shit and pisses us off when he strikes out. Same with Teahen, but we've pretty much given up on him.
P.S. And all this time we thought John Edwards was gay. Who knew?
P.P.S. Carlos Gomez plays like he's wearing roller skates.
P.P.P.S. We didn't see any snakes yesterday.
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I don't know if it's just the camera angle or what, but it seems like Gordon gets a called strike thats 3 inches off the outside corner of the plate every single at-bat. It's like clockwork.
It happens so often I'm convinced it's the angle that causes it to look off the plate. But you can tell the way Gordon reacts that he disagrees.
The umps have it in for Gordon. He needs to adjust his two-strike approach and/or change his attitude toward them.
Edwards infidelity was manufactured to battle the perception of his gayness.
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