Man At Rest

Off day today for the Sox, but not for yours truly, who had to shovel coal for satan all day.

Ross Gload was placed on the 15-day on DL with a left shoulder inflammation. Here's hoping he gets better soon! Pedro Lopez was rescued from the thing at the bottom of the International League that calls itself a baseball team.

Congrats to Jon Garland, named AL Pitcher of the Month for April! He's also the first Sox pitcher to throw back-to-back complete game shut outs since Jack McDowell did it in 1991. One important thing to keep in mind, he is the #5 starter on this team!

Another interesting Sox stat: ESPN radio, and www.chicagoist.com, both report that since 1976, over 80% of teams that are above .700 on May 1 make it to the playoffs. Keep in mind for much of that time period, only 4 teams (2 per league) made it to the post season. With the playoffs now expanded to 4 teams per league, that bodes even better for our Southsiders. The Sox are on their way. Bet on it.

One thing we can all do to help: get a Yohan Santana voodoo doll, and start working lots of pins into his left arm. Then work the eyes.

Down On the Farm:

Charlotte (AAA): Mercifully, an off day.

Birmingham (AA): Lose a close one, 4-3 to West Tenn. Owens goes 3 for 4.

Winston-Salem (A): Lose 7-2 to the Fredrick Keys. Collaro was 0 for 4. Rodriguez gets shelled for 6 ER in 7 IP.

Kannapolis (A): Lost 6-5 to Hagerstown in a very close game. Berry gets 3 hits. Hansen collects 2 doubles, Hernandez drives in two. Smith goes 2 for 4 with 2 runs scored. But it was the pitching of Russell and Perez that failed the Intimdators.

Baseball phrase of the day: rake in v. to catch a batted ball.

I've had my softball equipment at work for more than a month - I can't wait for the season to start. Just two weeks from today....

I'm not much for reality tv - I get plenty of drama in my day-to-day existance - but I did catch some of Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel last night. Having spent a week for each of 10 summers of my youth sailing on a large lake in upstate NY, I'm no stranger to water. Plus, during my backpacking days, I've had the displeasure of hoping long ferry rides in the rough seas seperating Europe and Africa. But I have no desire - NONE - to go on a cold death trap like one of them crabbin boats in the dark, black night of the unforgiving Bearing Sea. You could not pay me enough to do that job. I'll take "You want fries with that?"any day of the week for the rest of my long, miserable life on land. Spending a few days on a fishing boat in Alaska is a job I'm just about crazy enough and strong enough to do, but there is not enough money, and therefore, not enough pussy, involved. I'm an adventerous guy, but I'll stick to the concrete jungle, thanks.

Speaking of pussy, still no boobs in my face lately. There is a hot hot hot hottie hugely breatsted bleached blonde at work who I've really been bonding with the past few weeks. She's young (25) and we've worked together, on and off, for 7 years now. And as things at my company become increasingly stressful and desperate, I'm hoping for a hook up. What if the MILF catches me? Think she'd be jealous? I can't fight my throbing natural urges to fuck the shit out of this girl. And if the MILF isn't woman enough to give me a porn star experience at least once every few weeks, then... I dunno? What do you think?