No post today

Too busy for internetting.

Oh, and not only did the Red Sox lose last night, the Patriots also lost.

Not a good night for my sporting entertainment...

A loss.

The Red Sox did not play well last night and they got their ass handed to them by the Angels.

Sandoval did not have a great outing and while the batters were hitting the ball, they failed to step on home plate.

In the end, the Angles beat them 6-1.

Bennett has the start and first pitch was at 6:45. Rain is in the area but hopefully the game will be completed tonight.

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In other sporting news, the Patriots are in Seattle to play their first game of the season.

Kickoff is at 8:20 which means I'm going to struggle to watch all of the game.

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I took three 5-gallon buckets of acorns out of my backyard this morning. This is on top of the three or four we took out of there yesterday.

Whenever there is a slight breeze, it sounds like it's raining really hard only it's not rain, it's acorns.

Maybe I should just leave them and let them grow into oak trees. Then I won't have to mow back there anymore.

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I checked the gas prices in my area and they aren't good...

I wonder if it'll go over $5.00 before the end of the year...

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Here are some links:

• The President of Peace has set yet another end-date for his war.



• I wonder who will get blamed for this.

There are a lot of acorns

If you are one of those people that thinks an overabundance of acorns indicates a snowy, cold winter than you should start panicking.

I don't personally put any stock in a tree's ability to predict the weather but, then again, I don't put any stock in a human beings ability to predict the weather either...

But that's neither here nor there.

What I really want to say is, "Man, we got a shitload of acorns falling out of the damned oak trees".

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Yesterday's Red Sox game was an interesting game because Bello was the starter.

Based on his performances this season, I initially said to myself, "Well, this is stupid. They're gonna lose."

Well, they didn't lose and I'm going to admit that he pitched a pretty damned good game. It was almost like the Bello of 2025.

Tonight's Red Sox game starts at 6:45 and Sandoval has the start.

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Here are some links:

• This, in my opinion, is a good thing.



• This, in my opinion, is also a good thing.



• Jebus Criminies, if this is all it takes, my mom would have been a felon 6 times over.



• Well, this sounds expensive.



• I bet this smelled good...

I don't labor anymore...

Today is Labor Day (or if you are British, Labour Day) which is a day that was officially recognized by the federal government back in 1894.

What fascinates me about that fact is that the federal government only offically recognized the day after an event known as the The Pullman Strike.

Seems that the railroad barons decided that they were paying their workers too much money so they cut their pay and increased their hours. This kinda pissed off the workers so they went on strike. This caused the trains to come to a standstill in Chicago and since the mail was transported by train, that caused the mail to be halted. This pissed off Grover Cleveland so he sent in troops and gunned down 87 striking workers, killing 30 & wounding 57.

Old Grover understood that the murder of 30 citizens was a bad look and it made him look really bad to the rest of the country. He huddled up with his people and they decided that letting people hold parades and giving them a day off would make him look good so he established Labor Day.

Basically, we get a day off to make up for the government murdering 30 people.

Enjoy!

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The Red Sox beat the Angels this afternoon and since the Judges & the Rays did not play today, they picked up half game on both.

They are now 2 games behind the Judges and 6 games behind the Rays.

There are 17 games left in the season so it is highly possible they overcome the Judges and move into the 1^st wildcard slot. What is also possible but not likely is that they overcome the Rays and move into 1^st place in the ALEast.

According to Fangraphs, they have a 99.9% chance of making the playoffs which is way better than the 20.6% it was back in June.

Game 2 of the series is tomorrow. First pitch is at 6:45 and since the Red Sox seem to be jugling their pitching rotation, I have no idea who will get the start.

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This is terrible and I swear to god I did not laugh when I saw this:

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Here are some links:

• Well, at least it's not the storm troopers from Star Wars.



• Don't tell the Joker, the Riddler or the Penguin where it is.



• In January of this year, 60 to 100 ships a day passed through the Strait of Hormuz. Today there are 6 to 20 ships a day passing through the Strait of Hormuz. But Dementia Donny says the Strait is open...

Another short post

My sister is up from North Carolina so we spent the day with all of my family.

Trust me, there are a lot of us.

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Despite my not paying any attention to them, the Red Sox won this afternoon, beating the Orioles 3-1 and sweeping the series.

They are headed back to Boston where tomorrow afternoon they will start a 3-game series against the Angels.

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Here are some links:

• I would never have guessed this is a contest.



• That's gonna screw up the post office.



• His hair is grey. The dye is brown.