No baseball today

The Red Sox and Rays decided they didn't want to play baseball in the rain and I don't blame them. When I told my son that they might not be playing today, his reply was:

The game has been rescheduled to July 17^th.

That means I am spending my evening watching the SEC Softball Championship between Texas and Alabama.

Man, those girls play a wicked game of softball. Not at all like the way we played in the company league I used to play in. Not a single one of those girls has a beer in their hand...

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The mulch-a-palooza was put on hold today because neither one of us wanted to spread mulch in the rain.

Will pick it back up tomorrow and hopefully finish it off.

I will say this - our front and side yards sure look really nice. All we have left to do is the backyard and we should have no problem finishing that off tomorrow

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Here are some links:

• I don't believe him. Psycho Vlad is a bigger scam artist than Dementia Donny.



• Attention Sarah "I can see Russia!" Palin: Hantavirus has a 41% fatality rate.



• Oh goody, higher gas prices.



• Get ready for a super El Niño.

So much for the streak

The Red Sox started off okay last night and the game was tied 3-3 though 5 innings. Then, in the 6^th inning, Bennett lost it and gave up a run so Tracy pulled him and put Weissert in. Weissert immediately gave up another run, giving the Rays a 5-3 lead.

In the end, the Red Sox lost 8-4 to the Rays.

They are back at it again tonight. Early has the start and first pitch is at 7:10.

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The local AHL hockey team, the Springfield Thunderbirds, has made it to the Atlantic Division finals. They will start the best-of-5 series this Tuesday in Scranton, PA when they take on the Penguins.

If they make it through the divisionals, they will play the best-of-7 Eastern Conference finals.

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Dementia Donny is very excited about the price of crude oil.

I don't know about you folks but I don't buy barrels of crude oil.

I buy gallons of refined gasoline.

Hey DonnyBoy, call me when a gallon of gasoline is back down to $2.89 per gallon

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Here are some links:

• I'm kinda hoping this is a felony.



• The short answer is, "Yes, you are being pricks" but the long answer really is, "Cities and towns should be able to zone the way they want to zone and the state should have no say in the matter."



• Here's 10 lawsuits looking for some lawyers.



• Key line in this story: "We told him that there is a place in this organization for him for as long as he wants it."

A sweep is always good

The Red Sox beat the Tigers 4-0 last night, winning all 3 games in their series.

It was Gray's first game back after a brief stint on the IL and I thought he did pretty well. He only gave up 4 hits but a lot of his success can also be attributed to some stellar defense.

So with that sweep, they are now tied with the Blue Jays for last place in the ALEast and only 1 game behind the Orioles.

They are back at home in Boston where tonight they start a 4-game series against the Rays. If you look at the standings abaove, you will notice that the Rays have been playing some pretty damned good baseball. I hope the Red Sox can continue their winning streak.

The new guy, Bennett, who pitched on May 1^st when we went to the game, has the start tonight. First pitch is at 7:10

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We spent this morning and afternoon doing our annual mulch-a-palooza.

This is after we had finished for the day. It's about half the pile that we started with and I moved it all using my ancient wheelbarrow & a snow shovel.

This year is easier than the previous years. This year we only got 5 cubic yards of mulch instead of the usual 8 yards and a lot of it went under the line of trees we have on the side of our house.

We'll be back at it again tomorrow but that will involve the tractor and trailer because we will be spreading it in the back gardens.

Oh, and after we called it a day of mulching, I decided that since I alredy stunk and was dirty, I would mow my lawn.

It's amazing what fertilizer does to grass. I mowed it last Monday and I had to mow it again today because it had grown quite a bit.

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I have to take some ibuprofen and then watch some baseball.

Here are some links:

• This story talks about UMass but I can assure you that Canvas is used by almost every college. My guess is if you went to, or worked at, a college at any point in the last 10 years, they got your information.



• I'm beginning to think he might be a little fragile.



• I guess Dementia Donny sent Little Marco to Rome to try and make nice with the Pope.



• He's doing a great job. Best job ever. Many people have told him that no one has done a better job than him.

Good win

The Red Sox beat the Tigers 10-3 last night and there were some fireworks in the game.

The Tiger's pitcher seemed to get a little upset that the Red Sox were hitting home runs off him. I guess he wanted to let the Red Sox know he was unhappy and the best way he could do that was to hit Story in the back with a 94mph fast ball.

For those of you that have never been hit by a baseball, I can tell you it hurts. A lot. And the few times I got hit, it was thrown by some kid who was probably topping out at about 60mph. I can't imagine what 94mph feels like.

So anyways, that resulted in both teams running out onto the field to hold an in-depth discussion about the incident. Fortunately, that was about as far as it got. No fists were thrown and both teams managed to get back into their dugouts without anything more than some bad words being exchanged.

The umpires decided that the pitcher was a bad boy so they ejected him from the game. This afternoon, MLB decided he needed a bit of punishment so they suspended him for six games and fined him some unknown amount.

They are back it again this evening. First pitch was at 6:40pm and it is currently 0-0 in the 2^nd inning. I'm assuming all the players will remain in their dugouts when they are not actually playing.

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Here are some links:

• If you ever wonder what a hero looks like, he looks like Kevin Trainor.



• If you use Microsoft Edge as your internet web browser, you should probably rethink that.



• I guess that since Psycho Vlad is losing in Ukraine, he's decided to realy piss off the European nations.

There was golf today

We played our usual 9 holes of golf this afternoon and it was, as always, a good time.

We aren't good at it and we'll never be invited to play professionally but we laugh a lot and solve all of the worlds problems.

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After golf I had some things to get done so that explains why this is both late and short.

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Here are a couple of links:

• Hey! The Beach Boy and his group of studio musicians will be performing at the Big E this year.



• You just gotta love dogs.