Liberally Lean From The Land Of Dairy Queen

8.06.2010

Random Baseball Call Last Night

It's hard to tell, but it looks like the ball bounces outside the line BEFORE it gets to third base and then lands inside the line AFTER it passes third base. Does it have to go OVER third base?

See the clip here (they finally get around to the replay at the :54 mark,)

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

The bus crash in Missouri yesterday was insane. This link has the story and the picture of the bus which is on top of a truck cab. What you might miss is that there is a crumpled car under the bus.
Randy Galloway accussed Mark Cuban of taking kickbacks from the lenders in the Rangers auction to drive up the bid which prompted an angry Cuban to call in to Galloway's radio show. Delicious.
Supposed to hit at least 100 over the next seven days. Kill me.
Tiger Woods shot a 74 yesterday at a tournament he's owned over the years. Man, if he's lost it, it'll be the biggest Fall From Grace sports story ever.
Trim painting in the game room and my painting projects are done. Note to self: Remove trim tape shortly after painting next time. Letting it remain on there a couple of days isn't good.
The First Lady is on a pretty high tone vacation in Spain.
I didn't even know a red light was going up in front of Devon on 380 until I drove by it this week. If someone had told me as a kid that would happen at "the Pleasant View road on the highway", I would have thought they were crazy.
Buying carpet from Home Depot is an ordeal. Pick it out, order it (where you learn of a thousand incidental charges), have someone come out and measure, have someone call with a quote, pay for it, and wait for a contractor to call to schedule installation.
The Petroleum Club in Fort Worth got the go ahead to create a 40th floor balcony. It dawned on me I don't know a single member of that club.
A Lexus SUV hit a pick-up by my office yesterday. Pick-up guy was not happy.
Nerdy stuff: Find out how many people you follow on Twitter do not follow you back.
You'd think by now every kid would have a GPS bracelet on them or something similar.
The USA Today/Coaches College Football preseason poll has been released.

8.05.2010

Kitten Sells It With That Scream. A Born Showman

University Of Georgia Orientation Video 2010

How those good-ole-boys-from-the-South ever allowed this thing to be produced is beyond me. Somebody over there needs to put down his mint julep, get off the veranda and get this thing taken down before the rest of the SEC begins the dog pile.

(But I'll rate it as mildly entertaining on a very slow news day.)

Edit: Not that you want to, but since my embedded video crops out the right side, you can see a full version here.

When Did Hilary Swank Turn Into A "Hey, Now?"

More.

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

The boss in the British version of The Office, Ricky Gervais, might possibly replace Steve Carrel who is retiring from the American version of the show. I think he's the only one who could do it.
Whatever happened to kitchen trash compactors?
A California federal judge struck down the state's gay marriage ban yesterday. Opponents say the ban was voted in and was the "will of the people." Well, so was black and white water fountains at one point.
I guess this heat is worth a generally pleasant winter. Maybe.
Kevin Kolb will start at QB for the Philadelphia Eagles this year. I think he spent a handful of years in Decatur before he graduated high school somewhere else.
The Ranger auction last night, which the Ryan Group finally won after upping their original bid by about $88 million, was a newspaper's deadline nightmare.
Sorry individual: After being paid $32 million over the last year, Redskin Albert Haynesworth fails three conditioning tests and then claims a sore knee which has kept him out of practice for eight days.
ESPN's Erin Andrews has a hot sister?
Four funerals listed in the Update today and all were in their 50s.
I completely missed out on the announcement that Decatur was getting a Wendy's. But that's all we need: Another reason for people to clog that area of FM 51.
I wonder if this family drove through Decatur on their way back from Dallas before being involved in a tragic wreck in near Vernon.

8.04.2010

Ranger News

Although no one knows what the heck all of this means, the first round of the auction was finally completed (it took almost all day) with the Mark Cuban group outbidding the Nolan Ryan group by $25 million.

It sounds like the Ryan Group is griping about whether Cuban submitted a "valid bid" and it also kind of seems like they don't have any more funding to raise the bid. Maybe.

This guy has been doing a good job following the proceedings on twitter.

Edit: In the middle of the night, the Ryan Group won the auction.

Wheels are off

Link.

Edit: And today former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani's daughter was arrested for shoplifting makeup. It's Cosmetic Crazy Day.

Wednesday Morning Pick Me Up: Fox 4's Fiona In Make Up Chair

Random Wednesday Morning Thoughts

The Ticket had the Whataburger voiceover/commercial guy on the radio the other day. He admitted he had never eaten a Whataburger. Attaboy.
It's a amazing that eight people can be gunned down in a work place and it barely gets a mention on the news.
TV reporter ruins ice sculpture. That's so obviously a bit, how could anyone believe it's real. (Trust me, millions do.)
Brett Favre is a drama queen. Rumors swirled all over the place about his retirement yesterday, and he could have stopped it all by simply issuing a statement saying it's true, it's false, or I have not made a decision. Instead he sits back so he can be the center of attention.
And Favre's set to make $13 million this year with reports this morning that he's been offered a raise to $20 million? Sheesh. No way he's retiring.
The Ticket had a segment today about being laid off and the collateral damage it causes on relationships and self-esteem. A few emails read on the air were enough to make all of us rethink that hateful "why don't you just get a job at McDonalds?" attitude.
The population of my house has increased by 400%. To say it has "become alive" is an understatement.
But setting an eight year up with a paint brush and a small section of a wall to paint is not a bad way to spend part of an evening.
Devon announced this morning that it is printing money again.
It sounds like the oil well is now finally dead. And it's amazing that that almost all of the oil never made it the shore.
TCU's head coach had a conference call hijacked by a wise guy blogger yesterday. Funny.
I've always referred to the Texas Longhorns as the Evil Empire -- a reference to Star Wars. But this weekend on the radio I heard someone refer to the current Big 12 as the equivalent of the old "Eastern Bloc" with Texas serving as the Soviet Union and everyone else being satellite countries. I smiled because Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as "the Evil Empire" during that time in history.
Emmitt Smith, who goes into the Hall of Fame this weekend, kept every touchdown ball. Where are they? What is he going to do with them?
Got to play with an iPad briefly on Monday. Pretty, pretty cool.
Lohan on the cover of Maxim. Hey, now.
How to prevent date rape in Dallas according to the new police chief: Women should stop drinking. (If this interests you, you'll probably enjoy this discussion and comments here.)
A favorite line of The Fan's Greg "The Hammer" Williams: There's nothing more fun, or more irritating, than a drunk woman. (I continue to encourage Ticket Fans to check out 105.3 between 11:00 am and 3:00 pm.)
Before he was famous, actor Paul Rudd was a party DJ (a video of him working a bat mitzvah making the rounds yesterday.)