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My not really related Kirby Puckett story

When I was in college, I had a male floor-mate who was a huge Twins fan. He grew up in western Wisconsin, just over the border from the Twin Cities. I remember the 1987 World Series well because of his love of the Twins. Kirby Puckett's death yesterday got me thinking about this old "friend" of mine. He turned out to be a jerk to women. He constantly cheated on his girlfriends (who were mostly my friends) and he lied a lot. After he finished college, he stayed in our city for a short time before moving up here. This was after a friend of mine got pregnant, had an abortion, and was cheated on again. Needless to say, she was bitter for a while after their breakup. She happened to work in an office on campus and had access to student records. She looked up his records and discovered that while he told everyone that he graduated with two particular majors, he actually never finished college. I went to his "graduation" party. By the time this was discovered about him, my friends and I had mostly lost touch with him. He met another girl up here and got married and started having kids. We often wondered if he ever completed college or just went through life telling people he graduated. Yesterday, I googled him. I discovered he is a pretty high ranking marketing executive at a well-known local company. And, to make matters worse, he is still claiming to have graduated in the 1980's from the same school as me. Once a bastard, always a bastard.

That's Pete Rose

Pete Rose was signing autographs at a sports' memorabilia store in Vegas. You needed to buy something from the store in order to get it signed. Prices:

Photograph - $69
Baseball - $99
Jersey - $299 (numbered, came with 2 signed photos and a baseball)

The Olympics

You might not know this about me, but I love the Olympics. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Olympics. I watch every night. I actually read the daily sports page (which I never read otherwise). J and I are going out of town for a few days next week and I am already fretting over how I will see the Olympics. With 3.5 hours of prime time coverage a night, I'll need quite a few VCRs to record all the nights I'll miss (and no, I don't have TIVO and I am not buying one until it can record multiple channels at once). And then, staying away from the news for days will be almost impossible. How could I have been so stupid to plan to be away during the Olympics??

The Superbowl and Walk the Line: A Link?

So I watched the Superbowl for the first time in a few years. Actually, I read magazines during the game and watched the commercials. I actually like football, but I couldn't get excited about the game.  And, what was up with the sound during the Rolling Stones? It would have been nice to actually hear them. The commercials were mostly lame. I liked the Kermit the Frog and McGyver ones. I hated the FedEx one, even though this appears to be the fan favorite. Why? Because people and dinosaurs didn't exist at the same time. And while watching it, I had this fleeting thought: People are going to perpetuate the misbelief that dinosaurs and "cavemen" coexisted which will help the fundamentalist Christians "prove" the Earth isn't as old as it really is. I know. Chill. It is just a commercial.

And now the link:

We saw Walk the Line this weekend. I loved it. J has no concept of early American rock/country/blues beginnings so he learned a bit about the connection significant musicians had to Memphis. During the Stones performance yesterday he asked, "Were they a part of the Memphis contingent too?" My response, "Doorknob, they're Brits. Your Dad is a Brit. You have a British passport. How can you not know this?"