How I fell asleep watching the World Series

Josh Beckett - Boston Red Sox

Seeing the same bases-loaded walk over and over again was like counting sheep. I didn't miss much. When I woke up, game one of the World Series was over: Boston Red Sox 13, Colorado Rockies 1.

Was it the Rockies' eight day layoff, or can't they play in the thick air of Fenway Park?
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Update: Red Sox sweep Rockies for World Series title. Two good things about this World Series: first, the New York Yankees weren't in it, and second, it was mercifully quick. Naturally, the best team won.

Evil New York Yankees

My kind of baseball game

Watching the wicked New York Yankees get shut out by the Kansas City Royals. It doesn't get any better.

Pact with Satan not working?

Good intentions, road to Perdition paved with.

Mazoora Ball

The old feeder has been sliding into town every night to watch the I-70 Series on cable TV. I root for the Royals in this match up, mostly because the Royals have their farm team here in Omaha. Not a big fan of college baseball, I don't follow the College World Series happening right down the road from the feedlot.

As for the captioned good intentions, I planned to get up early this morning and post the first installment of my threatened analysis of the 2008 Presidential candidates. Last night's Cardinals - Royals squeaker ran 14 innings. This was far past my bedtime on a good intentions for the morning night. The answer to the burning question about Mitt Romney and his fat chance to move to the White House will have to wait.
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As if to punish me, my internet connection failed just as I hit the Publish button. Where are my nerve pills?

Canadian Seal Hunters Need Your Old Baseball Bats

"And me without a bat, eh?"

The annual seal hunt starts today in Canada. In spite of global warming caused thin ice, public disapproval from PETA duped entertainment stars, and carping from moonbats, the hunt goes on. But some of these poor North Americans, who depend on the seal harvest to feed their kids, had to stay home because of the acute club shortage now affecting the Northern Provinces. Our neighbors need our help. The problem and what you can do to make a difference follows.

It seems the Norwegian seal hunters, smarting from accusations of 'live skinning', have bought up almost every suitable bat in the northern hemisphere. That is why our neighbors to the north need our help. I'm sure every red-blooded American reading this has at least one or two old baseball bats in the garage or a closet that they don't use any more. These bats (only the wooden ones, aluminum bats are forbidden by the Seal Hunter's Union) are just perfect for clubbing baby seals. Dig out those old Louisville Sluggers, and encourage your friends to do the same. Help build up our tattered relations with the Canucks!

In order to get these bats into the hands of the seal hunters up north, the old feeder plans to organize a bat collection and delivery road trip. Any volunteers? Eh?
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Update: Once the Canadian clubbing got underway, things turned ugly. The Plains Feeder seal bat delivery road trip is cancelled at least until the old feeder can get a new fake passport.

Cardinals Fans

Now that we will have a World Series without the despised New York Yankees, (and sadly devoid of the Dodgers) I'm liking the Cardinals. I don't know why, I don't care for St Louis much, as cities go. But the old feeder enjoys a good baseball game, and you have to root for someone. Here are some links to Cardinal blogs, courtesy of Fungoes:

• Get Up, Baby!
• The Birdwatch
• Viva El Birdos
• Random Redbird Reasoning
• The Cardinal Virtue

Baseball: still America's pastime! And the Yankees will be back, Ryne.

Baseball at its most enjoyable

A Yankees-free World Series.

Rooskie Pride

We know the Russians invented baseball and a myriad of other so-called Western innovations (mostly invented by that famous Russian, Reguspatoff) and that they are the best at everything they attempt, thanks to the Marxist-Leninist thinking that guides them to greatness.

Now, Pravda is bragging up the hacking talents of their state sponsored hard currency thieves. In an article entitled Russian hackers recognized best in the world tells how they earn 'much money': "It has become a popular tradition for Russian hackers to form transnational groups with their foreign colleagues for stealing information, blackmailing and extortion."

Evil Empires are made up of evil people.