OFFTOP for superstition day

thank you Larry Stone.

Like pointing out after he’s finished his work that the order number was a multiple of 13.

Two car accidents two months in a row.

is that people will not take money directly from your hand. You have to lay it on the countertop (or table top etc.) and then they pick it up. They say it’s bad luck to take it directly from your hand. This is more common with the older folks, the younger crowd realizes it’s horse shit.

but for some bizarre reason I always have to put my left sock/shoe on first. I don’t think bad things will happen if I don’t, it just doesn’t feel right the other way round.

but with the Ms through the years, that was part superstition and part anti-heartburn.

If you hit into a possible double play but beat out the throw from second to first I know it doesn’t count as a hit, but does in count towards your OBP?

It’s completely ridiculous, but every weekday morning I have to wake up at a particular time and go to work.

Go Figure.

Bacon Loving Operations Coordinator Needed

I live in a condo with 5 separate units. I am at the end unit at the entrance. My neighbors next to subscribe to some newspaper that gets delivered sometime before 6 a.m. I noticed the person who delivers the newspaper uses my driveway, gets out, walks across the lawn connecting the units, and tosses the paper at my neighbor’s door (started noticing when the first snow fell a couple months ago).

Anyway, I have no problem with the newspaper person using the driveway and walking across the lawn. However, in the recent week, the person has gotten lazy (or incredibly rude, which is the way I am leaning) by driving 3 feet onto the lawn so they are closer to the neighbor’s door. With the lawn being soft from the snow melting, they are making marks in the lawn that will need to be repaired.

So, I ask, what do I do to get this asshole to stop driving onto my lawn? I almost feel like it is some 15-year old kid who has a paper route and his parents allow him to use the car because nobody is driving around at that time in the morning. I’ll tell you what I did yesterday to see if I could “fix” this problem: I placed nails sticking up along the edge of the driveway. Well, it appears one nail stuck as the person drove even further onto the lawn this morning.

Is what I am doing to appropriate thing to do? Is there a better way to get them to stop driving onto the lawn? I don’t want to place a big sign out there and I certainly don’t want to wake up at 4 a.m. and sit around and wait for the person to deliver the paper at whatever time. But for the damage they are doing to my lawn, I feel they can pay for it in tires.

I played center/right and would never touch the infield unless I had to during play. Literally ran around the infield dirt even if I had to go out to right field from the left side of the diamond, still do in my softball beer league.

…an outright hate for the infield and apparently getting my shoes dirty

Be apart of this 88 billion dollar industry.
Non smokers are encouraged to; you can make a great living
by smoking a non tobacco cigarettes in restaurant’s, bar’s and
in public areas. Come join are team.

Is it honestly a way of marketing cigarettes (which, by the way, Greg spelled correctly) and if so, why would non smokers do this?

This game? If so, is it worth the 5 bucks?

I just have to do certain things because I’m such a creature of habit.

He’s down to 250lb now, which still sounds way too high for a guy his size. What an unprofessional piece of shit.

For instance, a pit boss I used to work with would go around throwing salt on the floor behind players that were kicking our asses. Oddly enough, it seemed to work most of the time.

I’ve never had a problem getting hold of any baseball book via amazon, until now. Acta don’t deliver internationally for decent rates. I wonder if there is a .pdf version available?

from Rotoworld:

DirecTV issued a statement Thursday saying that Manny Ramirez canceled a promotional appearance scheduled for next week because he’s close to signing a contract.

Ramirez was supposed to be taught how to play cricket as part of the satellite television provider’s promotion of the new CricketTicket service, which would have allowed agent Scott Boras to claim that a whole new set of teams have interest in his client.

saying that they are going to show Cameron’s 4HR game on Sunday at 11.30AM PT. Set your VC/DVR’s accordingly.

Starting Sunday, me and the mrs. are doing a 10-day cleansing diet. The only thing that I think I will struggle with is the no-dairy thing; I love cheese. Which is partly why I need to do the cleanse, but anyway. Come Sunday, no dairy, no wheat, no sugar, no processed foods for 10 days.

and I know there’s a healthy disdain for this time period from some ’round these parts, but goddammit

PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORTED TODAY!

the end of the offseason is near.