Still, it was good to go out and just play some baseball.

The pure simple truth of this statement cannot be exaggerated.

Which leads me to say -- I feel so betrayed. Very, very seriously.

I think all y'all know how I feel about baseball, and, specifically, the Reds. The game is in my blood -- the *team* is in my blood. Baseball is the first sport I ever understood, because my dad started taking me to baseball games when I was 5 or 6, back in the days of the Big Red Machine. It's the first sport I understood, thanks to my Dad's penchant for taking me to Reds games when I was 5 years old (back in the good old days of the Big Red Machine). I played softball for close to 10 summers in a row, because it was the closest thing to baseball a girl in my part of southern Ohio was allowed to play back then.

The Reds are my team. Even when they suck hard enough to alter the jet stream, I love them.

So perhaps you'll understand my feeling of betrayal, of revulsion, at this news: [link] .

ETA: Jessica would also outcook the holy hell out of us

Aw, you guys are sweet.

Speaking of which, Sandra FUCKING Lee was on The Next Food Network Star tonight. I loathe her with the white-hot burning intensity of a thousand suns. 30% creativity MY FAT ASS.

Tep, please at least tell me they destroyed the ball afterwards? 'Cause, ewwwww.

I can understand people in the early stages of pregnancy not realizing it but man, the women who go into the emergency room because of "severe stomach pain" and find out they're in labor--WTF? How can you NOT know you're pregnant that far along???

Oh, Steph--there was a Graeter's reference on West Wing tonight! Yay!

Tep, please at least tell me they destroyed the ball afterwards? 'Cause, ewwwww.

It hasn't happened yet, but I'm sure hoping the ball will be destroyed afterward. And the grass burned. And the stadium exorcised.

t edit Cash -- that's COOL!

Actually, I'm surprised it didn't burst into flames the moment it touched Shrub's hands. They must have sprayed it down with Evil-Off before the game.

Speaking of which, Sandra FUCKING Lee was on The Next Food Network Star tonight. I loathe her with the white-hot burning intensity of a thousand suns. 30% creativity MY FAT ASS.

I can't stand Sandra Lee.

Is it wrong that my first thought was "but Sandra Dee's been dead for decades"?

One of my favorite food blogs has started the I Loathe Sandra Lee cooking contest. If I wasn't already a FoodieNYC fan, this alone would make me a convert.

Yeah, for most of the last two years, my niece hasn't had a period, so didn't think about missing one. But I too am a bit agog at those folks who have unprotected sex and don't spend the next however-long-until-period panicked that they got pregnant.

I may be a little gun-shy - I think I was one of about 5 girls in my high school class who hadn't been pregnant by the time we graduated.

So perhaps you'll understand my feeling of betrayal, of revulsion, at this news

I'm confused...Bush has like a 35% approval rating, closer to Nixon's at impeachment than to Clinton's during the Lewinsky stuff. Why would you want someone that unpopular to throw your pitch?

I went to Fluevog's web site to get pictures of the shoes I bought yesterday. A less attractive than they are in person pciture is here: [link] (I decided to use my jury duty money on something frivilous but necessary)

The company is now making wedding shoes (or at least marketing shoes as wedding wear): [link] I can't figure out why that seems kind of wrong to me. I like the men's shoe a lot though.