The High Heat

In my town there is a recently expanded boulevard that has a light at a T intersection, but the road leading to the T is surrounded by an undeveloped subdivision. This light will change at two in the morning even if you're the only car approaching. I suppose it's set up this way to keep us from going about 80 down a very long, wide and straight stretch in a 45 zone.

As long as you've another birthday coming up, what's the matter? I'll be 40 in September and I'm not as old as I was when I was 25.

Exactly. Corporate record companies get filthy rich on this concept, hence the choice of song here.

Me too. Not a bad song - if you don't listen too closely.

This all too reminiscent of what happened here in eastern NC during the aftermath of Hurricane Floyd in '99. Some neighborhoods are still gone. The only thing harder than waiting for the water to recede is cleaning up the destruction it leaves behind.

Year of the Ubaldo!

They should tase Ryan Madson for breaking his toe when he kicked a chair out of frustration.

Song length may have been a factor as ususually an act is granted no more than 4 minutes to perform on tv talk shows; plus it's catchy and the casual music fan may look into buying the album if they give them a hook.

Seeing old videos I just know I missed something special by waiting too long to go see Wilco in concert.

I do both when I borrow a cd from somebody else. I'm sticking with the cd. I'm not screwing around with needles and scratches and such. In 20 years of cd collecting I've only lost 2 to scratching, and one broke (But whose Wilco Book cd didn't break?). I buy most of the catalog of my favorite artists. I don't need every nugget released, like The Beatles cd of #1 hits. I can make that myself. I learned from getting burned on such things as paying $60 each for Elvis' Gold and Platinum box sets. They're basically the same thing, so I paid for most of these songs twice; and, of course, rarely p

It's going to start with this, then eventually it will be all DH all the time and maybe interleague at all times (or a uniform league). Pitchers are far too valuable to let them to continue to be subjected to hitting and running the bases. At some point the NL will have the weigh that value over the cost of another slugger. I'm not a proponet (or opponet) of this, but it's headed that way in the due course of the business of baseball.

Happy 60, LouieB!

Down With Wilco

It's fine if you like lemon, but alot of lemons go to waste because of this practice.

Why do restaurant servers always put a lemon on your tea or water glass? What's the deal with lemons? Who are these people?

I've been cable free for six years and honestly my mind feels less bogged down. I go to my sisters' homes and they have the round-the-clock news on or one of those reality shows and I feel like I'm going to lose my mind. I don't miss it and after awile you may look back and realize how big of a waste it is. The only things I watch on my television are dvds, PBS and Craig Ferguson a couple times a week. I read alot more and I write, but still not as much as I should.

Can we assume that complaints are your pet peeve?

Changes have been made to the All Star Game, including having the DH every season.

I've always liked Ibanez, but I'm hoping that the Phils trade him in the offseason to clear room for Dominic Brown and to have money to keep Werth. Ibanez has one more season on contract after this one, but I don't know if he has any kind of trade clause. He'll be valuable short-term DH material if he puts up decent numbers again this year.

Bob Uecker to have open heart surgery, will be out three months. Well wishes to one of the best.

With a signing bonus, including the deed to this:

Boras is Fielder's agent, so an extension for him is unlikely. Let's not forget the other free agent 1B of '11, Adrian Gonzalez. If the Red Sox can't land Gonzalez, they're sure to be wet for Fielder.

You press charges?

Phillies sign Howard to 5 year/$125M contract extension.

I was born near Philly, have lived in the midwest, but I've spent most of my life in rural eastern NC. While it's refreshing to have people being helpful and nice to stranagers and neighbors, there is a flip-side to the niceness on display. There is a constant underbelly of judgement, backstabbing and dogpiling of people. It is the accepted norm for people, who sometimes don't even like each other, to carry on pleasant conversation, invite each other over to visit, etc, and not mean one word of it. Then they walk away, immediately degrading the person they just invited to dinner. The bitch of