Random Baseball Analysis

This was making the rounds this morning. I may need my Baseball Nemesis to clarify a couple of things.

Is this really a great play by Jeter? Doesn't the shortstop always move to second when the runner at first takes off? Isn't that what the runner expects? And wasn't that guy sprinting to second on this hit-and-run regardless of what Jeter did? I think he would have been thrown out any way even if Jeter didn't do the fake catch.

New Reality Show Has Strangers Getting Married

And they get to decide after four weeks whether to stay married or get divorced. Sign me up! I'll have three divorces in the months but, hey, it's all in the rules.

The contestants . . .

 No question. Might even try to talk her into week five. 

 Three weeks and I'm out. High maintenance. 

I'm sleeping with one eye open. Huge chance of being on the crazy train.

Midland On The Brink!

Story.

And Another - Houston

Story.

Random Tuesday Morning Thoughts

• My stomach is killing me this morning. That's unusual for me. 
• The pot bellied pig project is a success so far. I think. And the coolest thing is that The Family Pup and The Family Cat are very protective of it. I think they are very confused by it. 
• The head of the Dallas County Republican Party, Wade Emmert, is filling in for Mark Davis this week. Yesterday he said the most "compassionate" thing America could do to for those children south of the border would be to build a wall. Strange concept of compassion. 
• The Republicans will announce the host of next year's Convention which is currently down to Cleveland or Dallas. I think they'll chose Ohio for political reasons. The GOP needs Ohio. 
• A naked Prince Fielder in ESPN's "body" issue. 
• I just threw up. (Not from the Fielder pic, but from the stomach issue.) 
• Gov. Perry and President Obama issued dueling invitations for a meeting neither one of them cares to have. 
• Nothing wrong with fundraisers, but this sentence in the Update is vague: "All assigned tasks must be within reason."
• I jogged yesterday and got way too hot. I'm not sure I can do summer jogging any longer. That's depressing. 
• Low flying jet at England air show. Oh, my.

Ain't no party like a Southwest Texas State* party cause a Southwest Texas State party don't stop.

* I refuse to acknowledge the new name after the University of North Texas was denied the right to it. (Which I'm sure happened but can't finding anything to back me up.)

Crazy Scene On My Street Saturday Morning

Full Throttle

Random Monday Morning Thoughts - That Didn't Load On Time!

• "I have to believe that when you do not respond in any way, that you are either inept, or you have some ulterior motive of which you are functioning from,” Rick Perry on the current immigration issue while appearing ABC’s This Week on Sunday. And you guys think I butcher the English language.
• Please, Governor, run for president again. I need material. 
• Mashable.com had a list of "13 Short Stories That Will Blow Your Mind" this weekend. I read The Lottery again for the first time since high school (still creepy) and read Zombie by Chuck Palahniuk (creepy even by today's standards.) 
• I was asleep on Saturday when I was awakened by Mrs. Mrs. LL and the Kids launching some type of fireworks that had to be illegal.
• As I was getting a haircut yesterday, my "stylist" stuck out her tongue to show where she had bit it.
• I'm embarrassed to say that we all watched the Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest live. 
• My administrative assistant called into question the wording of a sentence I had written in a letter last week. We then then struggled over it for about a minute before we got it right. I liked that. 
• Tony Romo needs 3,378 yards to become the Cowboys all time leading passer (in yards) over Troy Aikman. He's done that at least six of the last seven seasons. 
• Fox and Friends Brian Kilmeade wrote a book last year? Those guys over at Fox just let their name be used as a co-author, right? 
• The Wimbledon women's final took 55 minutes. The men's took 56 minutes and three more hours. 
• A high tone Austin lawyer gets caught in a $60 prostitution sting conducted by the FBI. More proof we have too many cops 
• If you want to hear a lot of angst, listen to talk radio on the immigration "crisis". Mark Davis had no where to go on Thursday when he was confronted by a right winger on his lack of "Christian kindness." He had to resort to, "There's is no teaching that says it it is to be done in disobedience to, or ignorance of, the law." Huh?  
• It sounds like the University of Texas president is being forced out. Something weird is going on in the Evil Empire. 
• We've got a pot bellied pig in the house. It eats like a pig. And squeals like a pig. I have no idea how I got talked into this. 
• It's an elusive little thing. 

And We Wrap Up The Fourth Of July Weekend

She seems nice.

She and her friends have been gloating over how all those libruls’ heads are gonna explode over the photo. Unfortunately, someone posted this:

Source.

Even I Thought That Was Clever

Remember when Democrats thought it was important to return Hispanic children to their parents? #Tcot #nerdland pic.twitter.com/Crg4Yw0F3b
— Stuart (@Ringo6) July 6, 2014

And the Left comes back with a right cross:

Right before Jesus used a US flag to block the bus carrying them to safety. #Murrieta #GOPBible pic.twitter.com/V6sLHD6fUe
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) July 7, 2014

Potential World Cup Serial Killer

Above The Fold

News

Ppl stopping by scene in Bridgeport where a pickup truck flew off a ravine; fam friends say driver didn't survive pic.twitter.com/69xmbxxhLg
— Lauren Zakalik (@wfaalauren) July 4, 2014

Random Fourth Of July Thoughts

• "McDonald's
• Wal-Mart
• The Gap
• Baseball
• NFL
• Rock and Roll
• The Internet
• Slavery
• Starbucks
• Disney World
• Porno
• Valium
• Reeboks
• [Breast Augmentations]
• Sushi
• Taco Bell
• Rodeos
• Bed Bath and Beyond 
• Liberty
• Wax Lips
• The Alamo
• Band-Aids
• Las Vegas
• Christmas
• Immigrants
• Popeye
• Democrats
• Republicans (Republicans)
• Sportsmanship
• Books"

And it just hit me that it would be really funny to do a Wise County version of this song. In the comments, go.

Not A Good Way To Start The Weekend

One person is dead after a fireworks accident in Comanche.

The accident happened on a field at about 8:15 a.m., Thursday, just west of the high school that is usually used for baseball and softball games. More.

If That Thing Would Sit There For Four Days, Lake Bridgeport Would Fill Up

Random Thursday Morning Thoughts

• Two days ago I was jogging and got dive bombed by a big black bird. I never it saw it coming as it smashed into my back (but it didn't use its beak or claws.) Scared me to death. As I returned to running, I looked around for the expected visual: Yep, a different injured bird about ten yards ahead. 
• The Dallas Morning News did a preview of the quarterback competition this Fall at TCU and didn't mention Decatur's Grayson Muehlstein despite mentioning two other incoming freshmen. 
• "Tour buses for Styx and Foreigner go up in flames". Tragedy or blessing?
• The lead item in the Update is about a guy who agreed to a 45 year sentence in a plea bargain. He'll have to serve half of that before even becoming eligible for parole. For a non-murder case, that's about as long of an agreed sentence as I've ever seen in Wise County. I can't think of a longer one. 
• As my last trial as Wise County DA was about to begin in 2000, my assistant walked up to me and said, "His attorney just told me he'd agree to 30." I remember looking at her somewhat stunned and saying, "Don't tell me you want to turn that down."   She didn't. Deal done. 
• I said earlier this week that John Wiley Price should tell the Feds who wanted to meet with him to take a flying leap. Yesterday, he did just that. 
• We've have two little girls from Mrs. LL side of the family stay with us all week. Tranquility, now! Edit: We now have proof that Seinfeld was on a long time ago and that I'm getting senile. Yes, it was "Serenity, now!"
• The folks that turned away that bus of immigrants being transferred to California should be ashamed of themselves. Such hatred. 
• Target doesn't want people carrying guns, concealed or not, in their stores. If you think Hobby Lobby has the right not to be compelled to offer certain kinds of contraception, you should have no problem with Target not wanting deadly weapons on its private property. 
• Mavericks: It was comical that Cuban even thinks he can entice a top tier free agent to come to Dallas (he hosted Carmelo Anthony last night.) Cuban inherited one of the top 10 scorers in NBA history. Of those ten guys, only one was not able to win an NBA title. And Cuban was only able to get one out of Dirk due to lack of support. 
• Hurricane Arthur is getting way too much press for such a wimpy hurricane. 
• Maybe the reason for the influx of children from Central America: They learned we have a lot of air-conditioning. I'd swim the Rio Grande for that.
• A 36 year old Denton High choir director received 10 years probation by a plea bargain in Denton yesterday after pleading guilty to an "improper relationship" with a 17 year old student. That's probably fair. He's been embarrassed to the Nth degree and the case will follow him forever via Google. (And it probably didn't help the criminal case that the parents of the girl sued the school in an attempt to get rich.)
• I ordered this print of LBJ and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas for my office. I'm intrigued by it because I've listened to some of LBJ presidential phone calls and the man would just strong arm folks to death. And I didn't know near enough about Fortas until I did a little research. He was the lead lawyer in the "right to counsel" case, Gideon v. Wainwright, at the Supreme Court before later joining the court. He resigned after four years due to an ethics scandal involving a prior contract he had signed which paid him $20,000 a year for life for unspecified advice. 
• Late edit: Hey, Wordkyle, the unemployment rate was just announced at 6.1% and the DOW just cracked 17,000.