Well the Red Sox had seemingly let a win slip away from them (literally) tonight at Fenway, but somehow pulled a 9-8 victory out of their collective asses with an assist from home plate umpire Rick Reed.
In the bottom of the ninth with the Angels up 8-7, Nick “Why yes, I’m slaying Watney” Green fouled [...]
September 16, 2009
Mike Scioscia is defriending Rick Reed on FB
September 16, 2009
Blockbuster to close 960 stores, apparently I’m some sort of mystical soothsayer
In Saturday’s post about the 1993 classic, The Program, I made a small statement at the tail end regarding former movie rental giant Blockbuster. It was sort of a throw-away line, but today comes news (via AP/msn.com) that the once mighty franchise is closing up to 960 stores, and going the way of RedBox by opening [...]
September 16, 2009
Kimbo Slice and his beard premiere on Spike tonight
Spike’s new season of The Ultimate Fighter premieres at 10 p.m. tonight, I’ll probably sneak a peek of it at some point after the Red Sox game. The big story this season is the “arrival” of Kimbo Slice into the UFC game. Although he’s made his official MMA debut while with the now bankrupt Elite [...]
September 16, 2009
This little girl took a page out of my playbook
I found this video on Today’s Big Thing, and it instantly brought back all sorts of painful memories of childhood. I was possibly the worst little kid’s game player in the history of the world. Due to my indecisiveness, Hide and Seek was a nightmare. Tag? Once I was “it” the [...]
