Friday, November 12, 2004
Song Quote of the Day:
Picture of Eva Mendes for the same reason as always
This Day in Hisory:
In 1794, the United States and Britain signed Jay's Treaty, which resolved some issues left over from the Revolutionary War.
In 1831, the 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, was born in Orange, Ohio.
In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
In 1919, the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles by a 55-39 vote, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification.
In 1942, during World War II, Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front.
In 1949, Monaco held a coronation for its new ruler, Prince Rainier III, six months after he succeeded his grandfather, Prince Louis II.
In 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.
In 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel. "Love what you've done with the place," he said. "Any chance of your people coming back to finish up on the pyramids?"
OK, so he didn't say that.
In 1985, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.
In 1997, Iowa seamstress Bobbi McCaughey gave birth to four boys and three girls — only the second set of septuplets known to have been born alive.
Because....why the heck not?
Bailey and her allergies
Our 2 year old had to visit the doctors the other day, since she was constantly complaining of a tummyache, and problems using the restroom. Test results came back, and not only is she allergic to dairy products, but it looksas though she has a Level II allergy to peanuts and peanut products.
How in the heck does a kid get by in life without a peanut butter sandwich and milk? What in the world am I going to be able to feed my little girl? though no fault of her own, she's stuck on the Atkins diet, it seems. Lotsa meat, lotsa fruit and veggies, and anything beyond that is just about verboten. I don't feel bad for me, though. It's tough finding her things to eat, but it'll be tougher for her to watch other kids able to eat all of these things and not be able to participate.
What does a level II allergy mean? Haven't the foggiest idea. I am waiting for a chance to talk to the nutritionist to find out myself. I'll let you know when I know.
Hometown Hotties
The Maxim Hometown Hotties contest winner has been released and is on newsstands now. But I don't have a copy yet, so I don't know what to tell you. I'll pick up my copy soon enough, and get back to you on the results.
Twins lose Guzman
The Twins starting shortstop Christian Guzman has signed elsewhere, taking his declining range and batting ability to the team formerly known as the Montreal Expos. And while the twins were wise not to break the bank in order to keep him, the quetion remains...who's going to replace him? Keep in mind, whomever they get has to be solid defensively. this team was built on the premise of pitching and defense, and in order to win, they'll need to be solid defensively up the middle.
None of the guys they have available to them currently on the team are known for their ability to hold the job full time. We'll see if htey sign a cheap all-defense, no glove type of player to fill in until they can develop a shortstop of their own. Preferably a SS who can freaking BUNT, for crying out loud.
Meanwhile, they've got an offer to 3B Korey Koskie, bu it's anyone's guess if he'll be back next year. Should he be? I don't know. It's the same deal as Guzman, really. He's a good player who can really helpt he team, and maintain some consistancy, but he has an injury history to him, and he goes through some really tough cold spells with teh bat. You wouldn't want to overspend to keep him, but if he leaves, you better have a viable alternative. And who knows if the Twins really do or not.
Last year required us to completely overhaul our bullpen in order to keep things affordable. That's how it is when you spend maybe a 1/3rd of what other teams do to be competitive. This year, it's gonna be our infield that is re-built. I'm guessing htat ext year is the outfield's turn, or posibly the starting rotation. Who knows? But the team has proven that they can handle adversity by winning 3 straight division titles. If they're going to win a fourth, they'll have to prove to be flexible, and handle even more adversity and change.
Come up to meet you, tell you I’m sorry
You don’t know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets, and ask me your questions
Oh lets go back to the start
Running in circles, coming up tails
Heads on a silence apart
Nobody said it was easy
Oh it’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said that it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling your puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart
Tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are
Nobody said it was easy
Oh it’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I’m going back to the start
Picture of Eva Mendes for the same reason as always
This Day in Hisory:
In 1794, the United States and Britain signed Jay's Treaty, which resolved some issues left over from the Revolutionary War.
In 1831, the 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, was born in Orange, Ohio.
In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that "all men are created equal."
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
In 1919, the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles by a 55-39 vote, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification.
In 1942, during World War II, Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front.
In 1949, Monaco held a coronation for its new ruler, Prince Rainier III, six months after he succeeded his grandfather, Prince Louis II.
In 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.
In 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel. "Love what you've done with the place," he said. "Any chance of your people coming back to finish up on the pyramids?"
OK, so he didn't say that.
In 1985, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.
In 1997, Iowa seamstress Bobbi McCaughey gave birth to four boys and three girls — only the second set of septuplets known to have been born alive.
Because....why the heck not?
Bailey and her allergies
Our 2 year old had to visit the doctors the other day, since she was constantly complaining of a tummyache, and problems using the restroom. Test results came back, and not only is she allergic to dairy products, but it looksas though she has a Level II allergy to peanuts and peanut products.
How in the heck does a kid get by in life without a peanut butter sandwich and milk? What in the world am I going to be able to feed my little girl? though no fault of her own, she's stuck on the Atkins diet, it seems. Lotsa meat, lotsa fruit and veggies, and anything beyond that is just about verboten. I don't feel bad for me, though. It's tough finding her things to eat, but it'll be tougher for her to watch other kids able to eat all of these things and not be able to participate.
What does a level II allergy mean? Haven't the foggiest idea. I am waiting for a chance to talk to the nutritionist to find out myself. I'll let you know when I know.
Hometown Hotties
The Maxim Hometown Hotties contest winner has been released and is on newsstands now. But I don't have a copy yet, so I don't know what to tell you. I'll pick up my copy soon enough, and get back to you on the results.
Twins lose Guzman
The Twins starting shortstop Christian Guzman has signed elsewhere, taking his declining range and batting ability to the team formerly known as the Montreal Expos. And while the twins were wise not to break the bank in order to keep him, the quetion remains...who's going to replace him? Keep in mind, whomever they get has to be solid defensively. this team was built on the premise of pitching and defense, and in order to win, they'll need to be solid defensively up the middle.
None of the guys they have available to them currently on the team are known for their ability to hold the job full time. We'll see if htey sign a cheap all-defense, no glove type of player to fill in until they can develop a shortstop of their own. Preferably a SS who can freaking BUNT, for crying out loud.
Meanwhile, they've got an offer to 3B Korey Koskie, bu it's anyone's guess if he'll be back next year. Should he be? I don't know. It's the same deal as Guzman, really. He's a good player who can really helpt he team, and maintain some consistancy, but he has an injury history to him, and he goes through some really tough cold spells with teh bat. You wouldn't want to overspend to keep him, but if he leaves, you better have a viable alternative. And who knows if the Twins really do or not.
Last year required us to completely overhaul our bullpen in order to keep things affordable. That's how it is when you spend maybe a 1/3rd of what other teams do to be competitive. This year, it's gonna be our infield that is re-built. I'm guessing htat ext year is the outfield's turn, or posibly the starting rotation. Who knows? But the team has proven that they can handle adversity by winning 3 straight division titles. If they're going to win a fourth, they'll have to prove to be flexible, and handle even more adversity and change.
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