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Wow.

that was just plain awesome – we sucked all game, Fatty was horrible, but the Big Man did it again.

Well, I finally made contact with the tower who’s coming tonight to take Percy to his final resting place. So, I now feel it’s safe to report on Percy’s end and finally show the mortal wound.

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Time to go to the apple students group again to pick up this week’s 25 songs. The theme is supposed to be dance/electronica this week I think. I’m kind of unimpressed at this point.

Next week is “rock”.

It’s supposed to be 103 and ~85% humidity here tomorrow. I’m just not going to go outside.

With Bruce Sutter’s enshrinement in the HOF, we can look ahead to the upcoming election in December. Interesting any year, this year’s ballot will be under an especially large microscope because the first of Juice-boys will be up for election: Mark McGwire. While not quite as damagingly linked to steroids as Palmiero or Canseco of Bonds, his reputation because of HGH and Andro leaves his reputation still pretty well tarnished.

Speaking of Bonds – for a while I’ve held out hope that he’d come out clean, mostly because I assumed he’d break Hank’s record and I wanted that to be a clean one. Now that it looks like he may well go to jail, and his bat has cooled off as his back gets work, he may well not break it, which is great.

Finally, and I know at least Jeremy will have a comment on this one, it’s worth noting the induction of the first full-on, modern-style closer. Where do you draw the line? How many saves does one need – what’s the number analagous to 300 wins of 500 homers?

P.S.  gotta love closers’ facial hair – from Rollie Fingers’ handlebar to Sutter’s neckbeard, good times.

I need a favor, if anyone could help me out.  I am going on a short vacation with my sisters this weekend and am coming back into the airport in West Leb next Monday (August 7th).  My car won’t be there  (i am leaving  out of Manchester) and it will be too late to take the bus (i land at 8:35 pm) and Winton will be at a confrence in Boston, so I need a ride from the airport to Wilder (the town, not the building).  Wilder is 4 miles from the airport.  I will pay you back for the gas, too.

Inspired by an April Fools joke, the first World Strip Poker Championship (on August 19th at Café Royal, London), has a £10k first prize along with the Golden Figleaf trophy.

Chris Peters, you sign up here.

I ran into Hratch, Ralda’s boyfriend today after dinner in Hanover. He’s pretty much stuck in the US until the president decides to stop the shit going on in Lebanon. Here’s a site he pointed out to me with the warning that if you can’t handle disturbing images, best not look.

Sorry to bring serious shit to the blog, but I think it needs to be seen, instead of just read about… Anyways, I also heard there’s a fund raiser for the people of Lebanon at the India Queen tonight. Don’t really know any specifics, but it’s supposed to start at 9pm (right now ).