1. I know this isn’t sports related, but
I can’t help but address this. My oldest granddaughter goes off to college this
week, and like my daughter many years ago, I have to turn my back after we
‘move her in’ and head to the car. I can’t even turn around and see if she was
crying (she was), nor can I show her that I and my wife were crying (we were).
She was on her own and there’s a good chance a bunch of these college kids last
night decided to spend the first night away from their parents in an Aurora,
Colorado movie theatre last night, seeing “Dark Knight”. I just don’t get this
world anymore and I guess that’s why we pass on. My old boss in Pittsburgh, Ted
Atkins (a.k.a. ‘Captain Showbiz) died last night, but, at least he passed
quietly while asleep rather than in row 4 of a safe zone called a movie
theatre. Where do we send our children now? All the hurricane shelters are gone
and replaced with a pool. Here in South Carolina, we don’t even have basements.
2. Blue Jays acquired LHP J.A. Happ, RHPs Brandon Lyon and David Carpenter from the Astros in exchange for OF Ben Francisco, RHPs Francisco Cordero, Asher Wojciechowski
and Joe Musgrove, LHP David Rollins and C Carlos
Perez. Have you ever seen a bigger bunch of nothing. 10 nobodies for no
one. Amazing.
3. I started writing yesterday at 5am
and passed out on the couch around 9pm. My wife woke me around midnight so I
could ‘go to bed’ (wrote the Mets Minor League Report this morning). I got up
at 5am again and went out to I95 where there is a McDonalds with Wifi. I sent
my morning email to Sue, telling here I felt great and was “bright eyes and
bushy tailed”, an old expression from my youth. It got me to wondering, so I
looked up the origin:
a.
Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed comes direct and intact from the
classic Fox Hunt. A fox with dull or cloudy eyes or a limp, listless ungroomed
tail is one in poor health and will not provide a good active challenging chase
over a long course. - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_the_phrase_bright_eyed_and_bushy_tailed_come_from#ixzz21AFG2Ms4
4. Boy, the tone in the clubhouse is
sure down… and
did you catch how ‘down’ TC was? He couldn’t wait to get off of that press
chair. There’s very few answers left for the 2012 version of the team and, past
Matt Harvey, the cupboard is empty.
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