More Diva Favre News, Woodland Hills Kiwanis Pig Roast, And Ned Colletti Should Be Fired…Yesterday
I have not yet recovered from Saturday’s Pig Roast.
(More on that later.)
Quick-hitters:
- You know that your blog is pathetic when a simple blog entry about a spammy caller-ID number doubles your blog traffic.
Not that I’m complaining…
- I didn’t get to play much Shot-Online over the weekend, mostly due to yesterday’s affairs.
I did, however, absolutely steal a win on a nine-hole match earlier tonight. I was playing Hela, tied with my opponent on the final hole (a par 3), when I seemingly drove my ball into the water (my ball rolled on to the brown perimeter of the water, and not actually in it).
Even though it said I hit it into the water, I was not accessed a penalty stroke (apparently, you get relief if this happens, without being accessed a penalty). On my next shot—just off the green—I thought I putted the ball much too hard, and the darn thing went in!
Needless to say, my opponent was incensed. She got so mad that she didn’t even attempt her tying birdie putt, as her shot clock ran out!
- Quick thoughts about Diva Favre:
1) “‘It’s pretty clear — and this is what I told the commissioner — that they want me to go away, stay retired.’”
Do you blame them if this is true? If you hadn’t jerked around with the team for three consecutive off-seasons, and the Packers still did this to you, then we have a different story.
2) “‘They would much rather see me in a Packers’ uniform, paying me $12 million to be a backup — which you know they really don’t want — rather than see in another uniform, no matter what they say.’”
The Packers wouldn’t mind seeing you in Packers’ gear, had you not jerked around with them a third time!
3) “‘Roger is willing to help but he has to be careful,’ said Favre. ‘I told him I could easily send in this letter [of reinstatement] but they really don’t want me there and it’ll be a big circus.’
Um…too late!
4) “According to Favre, Thompson asked him if he was interested in a trade. ‘Yeah, but not just to the teams you want me to go to,’ Favre said, relaying his conversation with the Packers’ GM.”
WTF? If the Packers get a good offer, and he shoots the trade down, then that is his own damn fault, isn’t it? Seriously, I would pay good money to see Favre in Oakland or Miami. And for the record, I’m 99% sure that the teams the Packers don’t want him to go to are the Vikings and the Bears.
Somebody please call this guy a WAAAAAAAAAmbulance.
- So the Woodland Hills Kiwanis Pig Roast was this past Saturday, and my sister (still a proud Kiwanian!) and I arrived at the festivities at about 5PM. About half an hour later, my partner in crime, Mr. Don Doner, showed up.
I call Mr. Doner my partner-in-crime because, for the past three years, we have been responsible for selling tickets to buy booze from the bar. Every year, sales have gone up, and I think alcohol sales went WAY up this year, despite the cooler-than-expected temperatures. More importantly, though, I attend this Pig Roast every year because I get to spend 2-3 hours with Mr. Doner.
You see, he is a counselor, and at the ripe old age of 1,000 (:P), he’s forgotten way more than I will ever learn. Every year I’ve attended the pig roast, we talk about life, business, and philosophy, so much so that I treat the Pig Roast as a paid life lecture with a complimentary meal.
(Watching Mr. Doner charm the ladies—and the gentlemen too!—out of their money for booze tickets is pretty awesome too.)
As for the food: roasted pig, roasted chicken (some people were complaining that the chicken was undercooked; my piece was cooked perfectly), potatoes, cole slaw (w/celery?), salad, beans, and a slice of cake for dessert, and I was stuffed. The best part was, I got to take tons of leftover food home! Too bad there was no left over pork…
(The chicken I took home turned out to be undercooked, unfortunately.)
I can’t wait for next year’s Pig Roast, and I’ll see you there, Mr. Don Doner.
- So the Dodgers got Casey Blake? Awesome!
(Not really.)
So we traded a future catcher prospect (Carlos Santana) and a good pitching prospect (Jon Meloan) for a 35 year old 3B who can’t defend, hits only decently (though, compared to the rest of the Dodgers, he’s an All-Star!) and is a free agent at the end of the year? Worse yet, speculation is that the Dodgers had to throw in Santana to get the Indians to pay the rest of Blake’s $2 million salary. Really? You’re doling out $118 million, and $2 million more is a problem?
That being said, I can’t fault Colletti for having to save money, even at the expense of an extra prospect. What I CAN fault him for is EVERY OTHER FREAKING STUPID MOVE HE’S EVER MADE!!! Juan Pierre for $44 million? Jason Schmidt? Andruw Jones???
(And I’m fully aware that I actually ENDORSED the deal late last year. I must have been drunk that night.)
If I hear that Colletti traded away Kemp, Kershaw, and Billingsley for Mark Teixeira and money to cover his contract the rest of the year, I better hear about 200,000 Dodger fans chasing Colletti out of town. Then again, Colletti doesn’t trade his best prospects, so I better expect an Andy LaRoche-Andre Ethier for Jack Wilson swap, with a third prospect being thrown in for the money issues.
Speaking of Andy LaRoche…what the hell did he do to get treated so poorly? Did he make a pass at Mrs. McCourt?
Until next time!