Pay It Forward . . in Baseball?

Had to laugh this morning.

Wednesday night I was waiting for Baseball Tonight to come on and the final inning of the Tampa Bay/Boston Red Sox game was on. The Sox were winning with ease and there was a Red Sox player, by the name of Coco Crisp, on first base.

He attempts to steal 2nd base but there is a pitchout and he is going to be a dead duck. Here is the deal. He slides hard at the last second trying to take out the second basemens ankles. This is very dangerous at a meaningless time in the game to be trying to hurt someone.

WELL - there are words between the two teams and the announcers are talking about the dirty play and then the camera follows the second basemen into the dugout. You see the manager put his arm on his shoulder and say "Don't worry, we'll take care of it".

The announcers start laughing and you can almost feel them wringing their hands in morbid delight just waiting for the next game.

Today I open up the paper to see this.

It only took one pitch LOL

Here is a pretty good You Tube of the brawl.
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Weather - I think we are OK for tonight unless the temp gets above 85 today. We have warm air aloft making the atmosphere more stable to unless we get extra warm I feel we will stay dry.

As for Kurth's. I'll have a hat out for tips for the Kurth's - lets show our appreciation tonight. I'm pretty sure they never envisioned The Kurth being the "IT" place in Columbus! What I think is funny is that I bet most people that will be there are NOT people that go to bars normally.

I think that is the magic about Kurth's. It makes people feel comfortable.

Also - I'd like to have some ideas to do something special for them at some time - email me if you have any ideas.
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Reports from Lips sealed in case you missed it.

1. Biograph was wrapped up last night after a few hour wait be cause of a thunderstorm.

2. Aragon Ballroom Tonight (last night)

3. Milwaukee next week for a few days, inside shots only.

4.HUGE pressure to finish by 6/30/08. Doubt anymore filming in WI other than Milwaukee

5. I think ( but won't swear to it) CB was released after last night

6. Alot more shooting to be done in the Chicago Area

7. I have some info about the premier but can't say at this point.

Thanks!
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Happy Birthday all birthday people.

And for any WWII buffs today is the day we invaded Europe with Operation Overlord - also called D-Day.

An interesting sidelight - crossword puzzles and D-Day.

We all know that everything was top top ultra secret but the London Daily Telegraph had a crossword puzzle and on May 2nd the word "Utah" was in the puzzle. Curious, this was one of the landing beaches.

A couple weeks later "Omaha" hmmmmm, wait a minute. The author is placeed under surveillance.

A few days later "Mulberry" the code name for artificial harbors that were secretly being built.

And then "Neptune". That's it! The author, a schoolmaster, was arrested. They looked and looked but could not find any evidence that he was purposely suppling information to the Germans. It was a product of an incredible series of coincidences.

Until 1984 when the mystery was solved.

One of the schoolmaster's pupils revealed, 40 years later, that he had picked up the words while hanging around nearby camps and eavesdropping on soldiers' conversations. He then passed the odd words on to his unwitting schoolmaster when he asked his pupils to provide ingredients for his crosswords.

and there ya have it.
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I'll bring some post cards to the Kurth tonight!
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Sunday on Discovery Channel called "When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions. It's suppose to be pretty good, all HD with footage never seen before.
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OH - and Christine the Historian wrote a piece about the Dust Bowl for school

Check it out

Environmental Disaster
Dust Bowl, Great Plains, Great Depression Era

OK - I have work to do!

OSH has created a forum Grinders Island which as a funny personal meaning that no one but me knows about. LOL


Sort of an odd blog today!

Rod