5/2/5: Asshole Season

Tonight's softball game has left me with a terrible, terrible, taste in my mouth and I don't think I will forget it for the rest of my life. I won't go into details here, but I'll just say there were some assholes on the field when we got there, and it took us 45 minutes to get them off. In the process, they threatened us with physical violence, screamed racial insults at us, and generally acted like thugs. It took me back to 6th grade, and it made me sad to see human beings in their 30's and 40's going through life like junior high bullies. Sigh. I'd like to think that people like that get theirs in the end, but the truth is there's no way of knowing. We can only hope.

It was shaping up like a good day before that, too.

I would like to direct your attention to the lyric stumpah today, because something extraordinary has happened. A man named Brian Castro has stepped in and, in the course of about an hour, has solved ALL NINE UNSOLVED STUMPAHS to take the overall lead in the lyric stumpah challenge. This is a performance the likes of which we simply haven't seen before. Not even cW in his prime showed such versatility and well-roundedness. He named songs from Flesh for Lulu, Material Issue, Jurassic Five, Van Halen, Donald Fagen, The Strokes, James, Mudhoney, and Elliott Smith. It was like Barry Bonds in 2001: there was simply no way to pitch to him.  And the amazing thing was that Brian hadn't even participated in the stumpah until this outburst.  Who knows how many answers he would have gotten had he been playing all along? Of course, just as Bonds' dominance over the years has led to whispers and accusations about performance-enhancing drugs, I'm sure there are going to be some doubters out there who think that Brian must have googled to come up with so many answers so fast.  But here at verbungle.com corporate headquarters, we're going to give him the benefit of the doubt and salute his fine work. An all-star performance by Brian C. Well done.

So we have a winner in the First Annual Hans Bungle Photoshop Moustache Contest. Some very creative entries, but we have to award the 30 points to Crsmal for his superior photoshopping skills.  Here is his entry, for which he will receive 30 genius points. We will give 10 points each to Pete B. and Erin J. for their runner-up entries. 

For 15 points, wheredat? And here's a GISG. Hint: The answer has nothing to do with any of the text on the picture. Please begin answering at noon HST.

If Cap C really caught a Tejada HR ball, he is my new hero. I've never come close to catching a batted ball of any kind at a baseball game. And a HR by the best player on your favorite team to boot. Wow.