More Thoughts On The Dodgers, And And I Thought Symantec Rebates Were Bad
Quick-hitters:
- My silicone-gel keyboard wrist rest has gone AWOL! For the love of carpal tunnel syndrome!
If anyone has seen my wrist rest, please let me know :P.
- I am in desperate need of a hair cut, but I hate getting my hair cut in the Fall/Winter. My “helmet” does a great job of keeping my head warm!
(The term “helmet” came from a high school friend, who once noted that my hair would look like Darth Vader’s helmet if I allowed it to grow too long.)
If I get a hair cut, I might freeze to death! After all, people lose a good deal of body heat through the head; I was told that we could lose up to 60% of body heat through the head, but Wikipedia says it’s closer to 40%.
As cold as it is right now, it is not going to stop me from enjoying this chilled navel orange.
- CompUSA is closing down. You won’t find me shedding a tear over this news.
- So I’ve come down a bit from my euphoria upon the Dodgers’ signing of Andruw Jones. Here are some added thoughts on the deal:
1) The more I think about the deal, the more I fear that this is going to work like just about every other Ned Colletti signing (Schmidt, Gonzo, Pierre, etc.). Thinking about this possibility, combined with the possibility that Colletti is going to deal Kemp or Ethier—he’ll probably end up getting rubbish—just made me spit up an orange slice.
By the way, why do we have to trade Kemp or Ethier? I read somewhere (a commenter on ESPN?) that we could deal both and let Jason Repko and Delwyn Young compete for the fourth OF job. That thought just made me spit up some more of my orange.
2) Why do we need another big-time starter? Isn’t Penny, Billingsley, Lowe, and two from Schmidt(?)/Loaiza/Kuo/minor-leaguers good enough? Isn’t there a reclamation project somewhere we could try out?
If the Dodgers insist on getting a big-dollar pitcher, it better be Hiroki Kuroda. I’d rather overpay an intriguing FA than give up the farm for a rental.
3) I’m sure this joke has been made a million times already, but when was the last time two teams in the same geographic area overpaid for two overrated CFs each?
As bad as the Pierre signing was, though, I’d still rather have Pierre and Jones for ~$80 million than Gary Matthews Jr. and Torii Hunter for $140 million.
- By now, my loyal readers should know about my disdain for Symantec (really, Parago) rebates.
(Non-tangent: This orange is actually pretty awful. I have thus switched to a microwaved burrito.)
As much as I hate Parago, though, at least they are pretty good about validating previously rejected rebates; a simple phone call or email, insisting that your rebate was wrongfully rejected, usually gets the job done. I wish the same could be said for Young America-run Web-rebates.com.
I have one rebate, for $10, on a PCI Wi-Fi card, that hasn’t been resolved since mid-August. I was told that I could mail in a copy of the UPC to rectify the problem. I have since mailed in a copy of the UPC twice, and emailed Web-rebates.com (via the Contact Us link at youngamerica.com) several times, and these clowns still have not fixed this rebate. In fact, I called in about a month ago regarding this rebate, and the rep told me that she did receive one of the mail-in resubmissions, but that was missing the UPC copy as well! WTF?
I now have to deal with two rebates, both of which were rejected for not including a receipt showing the purchase of the product in question. I guess the person filing my rebate either completely missed my copy of the receipt, or missed the highlighted AND circled part of my receipt showing the required purchase.
What really sucks is that I have another $200 in rebates or so that is being fulfilled by these morons. Fantastic!
freezing to death in so-cal?? good luck buddy!