Inter-league?

Here we find ourselves at that wonderful time of year when the two major leagues come together, and play by one of the leagues rules. This time around it’s the N.L.’s romantic and out-dated rules we’ll play by. This brings us to the question of which Indians pitcher will jack a homer off of the reds? This is just one of the things about inter-league play that makes it sooointriguing. Ah the skewed stats, that merging of fan bases that justifies this modern twist on baseball. Personally, I like inter-league play. In fact I like inter everything. Inter-race brought us halle berry http://celebs-porno.com/Halle_Berry1/Halle_Berry6.jpg and here http://celebs-porno.com/Halle_Berry1/Halle_Berry9.jpg Inter galactic travel brought us Chewbacca, and that chick from Total recall with three boobs. Inter-species brought us the liger http://www.restorationfarms.com/gifs/liger4.jpg and the Tigon  http://hydepark.hevre.co.il/upload08/060404_150622-851_tigon.jpg as well as Julia Roberts. The problem is that baseball skews the stats of inter-league play. When the tribe usually draws 30-35 thousand fans on a weekend, and the reds 20 thousand, they should draw a combined 50, that’s just basic math, not a genius sales mechanism. Instead of adding fans, baseball just uses the numbers from combining two markets into one, a few weeks out of the year. I think this is one of the things Enron got in trouble for. When you combine both new york or chicago markets and fill one stadium, it isn’t adding fans, it takes away from the amount of fans that could watch a game live or on t.v. Instead of 2 stadiums 2/3 full, we now have one. Instead of two networks airing games that would be watched by a rabid fan base, it combines them into one network. Oh well. Sunday should be a great matchup between the best ERA in the A.L. in Cliff Lee, and the best in the N.L. in Edinson Volquez of the reds. Both could win the Cy young, for non playoff teams. Realistically the vastly over-rated Brandon Webb has already clinched the NL cy young, even though his ERA is double that of Volquez, and he has way less strikeouts. Since he gets more run support, and has more wins (the most over-rated pitching stat ever) he’s already got the award in the bag. Either way my pick is for Fausto Carmona to go yard in cincy.

Recently I lost one of the fine eateries within walking distance of my office, A&W rootbeer. It’s now another starbucks. The good news is, in the vacant parking lot next door we have a new seasonal eatery. A mobile hog roast stand. Yes, a hillbilly using what looks like an old Job-site generator to smoke pigs, and sell them out of his truck in sandwich form. I tried it today, and no repercussions yet, and yes it was as delicious as it sounds. Nothing like Pulled pork sandwiches from a guy who likely hasn’t washed his hands since he was fingerprinted after his most recent meth-lab arrest. Too bad he only takes cash. stupid direct deposit, I could have done my grocery shopping for the week.

I’ve decided to start a new psychological experiment. Fucking with people while driving, and trying to guess their reactions. My first experiment is to pull up beside people and stare directly at them, for as long as possible. I expected to get “the finger” a lot more than I have. Surprisingly, women drivers, seem to stare back for a while, before looking into the rearview mirror, shouting something, then driving recklessly away. male drivers seem to like to stare back, then shout profanity’s at me. This result was also expected. The reactions seem to be detrimental to what side of the road you are on when you try this. On the right side, you seem to be more curious, and they ignore you. Coming up from the left side, is when the most exciting reactions take place. this can only mean one thing. People hate left handers.  The other experiment is one you can all try as well. When pulled up to a stop sign, or stop light behind another car, with at least one more car behind you. Leave a good 8 to 10 feet between you and the car ahead of you, and then inch by inch pull ahead, stopping between inch ups. Just by the looks of the car or the driver behind you, try and guess whether or not they pull up inch by inch behind you. It’s really fun, especially when you stare in your mirror at them behind you, and laugh. It seems that people who appear to be lower income, and those who appear to be driving the most expensive cars, will always pull up behind you one inch at a time. Those in the middle seem to realize pulling ahead one inch gives them no benefit, and stay put. After about the fifth or sixth time they pull ahead an inch or so behind you, you know all you need to know about this person. You can even try this on people you know. Sometimes they even get pissed off by the teasing of thinking they are about to go somewhere, only to be disappointed by being just one inch farther than they were a moment ago. If anyone else can help in my study, please do. Let me know what you find.

Note: Writer is not responsible for you running over a pedestrian beacuase you were staring at the person next to you while driving down the road, conductiong an experiment from a moronic blog.