8/18/05: I need the Dramamine

Went out tonight for the sendoff of a woman I've worked with for 12 years. It was at Frying Pan, which is a rather underappreciated little bar/cafe on a floating barge right next to Basketball City. I got a little seasick for a spell. A fine cold Bud brought me back. The wife even showed up with the baby, who behaved impeccably.  Well, she did crap all over herself but nobody saw that. 

I looked something up on the internet tonight and it freaked me out. Then it made me depressed. Then it made me not want to blog anymore. Then I got over myself and remembered that just like Freddie Mercury said, nothing really matters.

So we move on. Joe Torre blew another one tonight. Hi Joe. Thursday's an off day. Therefore, Rivera and Gordon could have pitched tonight. I don't care if they each pitched 12 innings last night. The season is slipping away, Joe. You've got to go into Pete Rose mode: manage every game like you've got money riding on it. Burn out some arms. Worry about tomorrow tomorrow and next year next year. That's how the game should be played anyway. Break it down to its smallest and most important unit: the game. Not a week or a season or a career. Win every game. Thank you.  I'll be watching you.

We would like to announce a new page here on verbungle.com.  We're calling it "Ma Bungle's Ballyard." Ma Bungle is my wife and she generally occupies the seat next to me on the couch as we watch the Yankees play. There was a time when she genuinely cared about baseball. The Durham-Sutcliffe-Moreland-Trout-Sandberg-Sanderson-Matthews-Cey-Eckersley-Bowa-Davis-Dernier Cubs were one of her first loves as a young girl in the suburbs of Chicago. And when she moved to NYC in the early 90's, she became a fan of the O'Neill-Bernie-decrepit Mattingly-Boggs-Pat Kelly-Key-Stanley Yankees. But in recent years, she's lost interest. I think she simply misses O'Neill's slender form out in RF, but whatever the case, she's reached a point where she'll kind of half-watch the games with me, and not really care about what's happening. She'll still offer opinions -- about everything except the game itself. So once every week or so, we will showcase these opinions on her own page here on the Bungle. We're already a couple quotes behind, so you'll get two observations this week. Here they are.

Again we get quality content via the old email for you. Crsmal has a brand new dispatch from suburbia.

We also have the first edition of Trayline. We aren't all that happy with it, but we needed to get the first column out of the way to set up a few things. The quality will increase, of that you can be sure.

For ten points, what does this shirt say? For another ten, what video is being imitated by the dude in today's picture at right? Same video as last time (nobody got it), and here's a hint: it was a number one or number two single in the late 80's-early 90's.