When I’m hot and sweaty, there’s nothing I want more than warm, whole milk squeezed fresh from a random cow.
Happy Weekend America! :)
Cinco de Mayo: Long Before It Was Corporatized - Los Angeles, CA, 1943
“Among the 5000 persons assembled for the Cinco de Mayo celebration were little Luis Romanos and his sister Amalia in costume.” - Los Angeles Times, May 6, 1943
Cinco de Mayo, before it was made into another excuse for a day to get drunk.
I don’t know when we’ll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
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— Arthur Golden (via Nobu-San), Memoirs of a Geisha (via teachingliteracy) To someone I know… |
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man’s brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn’t understand you at all.
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Aleister Crowley (via misswallflower) Ms. Crowley nails it! |
The Boston Red Sox say that they’ve invited every living Red Sox to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fenway park tomorrow.
I’ve complied a list of the top Red Sox at each position that I’d find quite humorous if they showed up. *The format of this post will look a lot better on the blog page*
C - Carlton Fisk - It’s tough to think of a catcher with a real feud so I chose Fisk. Fisk left the Red Sox for the White Sox when a technicality (his contract being mailed a day late) caused him to be a free agent. Boston wouldn’t retire his number because he didn’t finish his career in Boston but eventually the team hired him in their front office allwoing his number to be retired. Boston fans love Fisk, so him coming to the 100 year celebration wouldn’t be awkward.
1b - Doug Mientkiewicz - He was actually sued by the Red Sox over the possession of a baseball.
SS - Julio Lugo - I couldn’t think of a second baseman, so why not Zoidberg? What a terrible contract. Three years in Boston he hit .251 and drove in 103 runs. At least his slugging % was .316…
SS - Edgar Renteria - As terrible as he was in Boston, he will always be remembered… As the final out for the Cardinals in the 04 World Series.
3B - Wade Boggs - A good player, winning 5 batting titles, but he left the Red Sox for the Yankees and won a ring in New York. Almost as bad, he then went to Tampa Bay with a clause in his contract that he would go into the Hall of Fame wearing a Devil Rays cap. That clause has since been nullified
OF - Manny Ramirez - The only time he put in a full effort while employed by the Red Sox was when he pushed the 64-year-old traveling secretary Jack McCormick to the ground and told him “Just do your job”. On a sad note, his grandmother died 18 times while he was playing for the Sox.
OF - “Crazy” Carl Everett - The short-tempered outfielder got suspended numerous times and that wasn’t even what was crazy about him. Carl once said “God created the sun, the stars, the heavens and the earth, and then made Adam and Eve. The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can’t say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex.” He also believes that fossils of dinosaur bones are fake and man made. In 2011 Everett got arrested for reportedly holding a gun to his wives head. Everett was the one who infamously dubbed Dan Shaughnessy as the “curly-haired boyfriend” of Globe writer Gordon Edes.
OF - Wil Cordero - Arrested multiple times for domestic abuse while playing for the team. He was hated by fans.
DH - Jose Canseco - He played well in Boston, but come on, he’s Canseco. He was also probably the man who introduced the Red Sox, especially Clemence, to steroids
SP - Roger Clemens - Where do I begin? Said he would never pitch against Boston unless it was for a Texas team that he grew up watching, then signed with the Blue Jays and won a CY Young in both seasons with the Jays. Toronto traded him to the Yankees where he won a World Series. Oh, and what about this? Clemens once said of Hank Aaron “I wish he were still playing,” Clemens responded. “I’d probably crack his head open to show him how valuable I was.” And let’s not forget the steroids.
RP - Larry Andersen- Nothing against Anderson, but the Red Sox traded Jeff Bagwell for 15 appearances and 1 save worth of Anderson.
RP - Eric Gagne - A lot of fans hated the Gagne trade, although it only really cost David Murphy and the Red Sox won the WS that year.
Honorable Mention - Mo Vaughn - Besides leaving for a huge contract from Anaheim, he allegedly punched a man in the mouth outside of a nightclub and crashed his truck while returning home from Foxy Lady (strip club) in Providence.
Honorable Mention - Alex Rodriguez - He was almost a Red Sox for about 15 seconds.
P.S. My dentist won a Cy Young with the Red Sox.
