Ken Griffey Jr is Making Me Hide!

About 15 years ago I traded all of my Mark McGwire baseball cards for a crap load of Ken Griffey Jr cards to a 12 year old. His cards included some Japanese Griffey cards which were pretty cool. Then I purchased some Ken Griffey Sr cards (shown with rookie Brewer Jerry Augustine) and I was feeling good - the kid had his hero Mark McGwire and I have a ton of what I thought might be a Hall of Fame player.

I then purchased 50 of Jr's "Score" Cards because it was #1 in the set and I felt that a #1 card is on the end and would get beat up.  Those cost me an unheard of $1 each (I see they are $80 a piece now).

The PROBLEM is that that 12 year old is probably 6'8 275lbs now and looking for me!

I also have a few Bill Ripken F*ck Face cards (worth like $2) displayed with my Willy "The Dupe" Dipkin Card (which is worth $400, I lucked into that one).

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Speaking of the Brewers - OK - we all know the pitching staff SUCKS - but being the forever optimist you have to look at the good side.  I believe the Brewers have a REAL closer as opposed to that poser Trevor Hoffman, (I never thought he would be any good).  Also a catcher that can hit home runs with only half a bat in his hands. I'm not sure how good he is defensively but . . . really, who needs a defensive catcher anyway.

If you look at the Brewers and forget they were suppose to be good this year you see a lot of good things. Casey McGhee, Escobar and Gomez are not letting us down, Corey Hart is streaking and leads the NL in HR's. Fielder a perennial cold starter is heating up and has a .400 OBA and as for pitching . . .well . . . . there are some young arms getting some playing time and Axford looks like the real deal in in closers!

One thing that hurt was with Hoffman being ineffective and then the NEXT closer (Hawkins) going on the DL!  It was scrambling time.

So THIS year is probably in the dumper, BUT, still fun games to watch. Plus - we're STILL not the Cubs.  As of yesterday with the Cubs payroll each victory for Chicago cost them about 8 million dollars, each win for the Brewers was 3 million.  Suck on that Cubbies!  And GO Cinci - if The brewers can not with at least it's not the Cubs or Cards.  GO REDS!!!!  

But - what about the 800 pound gorilla game that happened last night in Detroit.  A Perfect game, the 21st in MLB history is taken away by a VERY bad call on the VERY last play.

The UMP that made the bonehead call knows he blew it and is taking it like a man. The PROBLEM is not him - it's Bud Selig and his cronies who refuse to enter the 19th century.  Baseball has continually left umpires out in the cold when it comes to technology.  THEY know that mistakes happen and are not opposed to replays - but NOOOOOOO - the game has always been this way so let's not change!!!

Selig is to blame for this mess. You can't change the scoring now because buy their own standards the ump makes the call. So for Galarraga he will never ever get that night back and instead of being in the record books FOREVER, will fade to obscurity. THANK YOU BUD for being so anal.  

But then - if you think about it, the only REAL stat that counts in baseball is Win and Loss!
 
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I got my booth assignment for Sun Prairie on June 12th!  I'm in the 2nd Men's Room so I think it's a good thing, lots of traffic.  I'll have more on this next week.  I'm more concerned with Portage at the moment.  I'll be on the stage at the Portage Center for the Arts. The worry was that as of LAST Thursday the lights were not working and was pitch dark.   I purchased 40 flashlights in case there were no lights (not really but  on the right could be what people actually see with my ONE flashlight).  And it was hot so it could be pitch dark and 110 degrees!  PERFECT!!  I'll be like a tour guide in a cave. 

Does my iPhone have a flashlight app?

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This past Spring was the 3rd warmest ever for the Dane County area. #1 was 1977 (the first year we started Tenny Ball in Tenny Park) and #2 was in 1878.

Last night was the 3rd out of 5 Wednesdays that our golf league was canceled. Columbus had 0.68 inches of rain, Madison about 1/3 of an inch, Jefferson 2 inches.

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Side note - Milk should have a sort of liquidy texture right?  I think I might take this one back.
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 Have a great Thursday!
Rod