Time of the Season
Well it was just Groundhog day, which means major league catchers everywhere are sticking their heads out of their holes. If they see their shadows, that means they report to spring training in two weeks. It's time to dust off the old
"tools of ignorance" and meet up with this year's crop of pitchers so they can scout out all the best titty bars before the rest of the squad shows up.
Baseball is
one friggin' long season! They start getting together in mid February and stay until at least the begining of October. Growing up in Brooklyn, the first day that it was warm enough to play softball was a special day. Kids would show up with their gloves like they were given a secret signal. We would spend the winter playing football and basketball, sometimes shoveling snow off the court first. But the coming of softball would bring the forming of neighborhood teams that would spend lots of time together, at least until the next school year started.
Opening day has always been a special day for me for as far back as I can remember. It's the
real start of the new year, a clean slate when every team is tied for first. The promise of an unknown rookie and the uncertainty of an old timer trying to hang on for one more season.
Football Fable
This was sent in by future Brahma's World member, Ellen:
A first grade teacher in Oakland explains to her class that
she is a Raider fan. She asks the students to raise their hands if they are Raider fans. Every student raises their hand except one little girl. The teacher looks at the girl with surprise and says, "Janie, why didn't you raise your hand?" The little girl replies, "
Because I'm not a Raiders fan." The teacher still shocked, asked, "Well, if your not a Raiders fan, then who are you a fan of?"
"
I'm a Niner's fan, and proud of it," Janie replied. The teacher could not believe her ears. " Janie, why are you a Niner's fan?" "Because my mom is a Niner's fan, and my dad is a Niner's fan, so I'm a Niner's fan too. "Well!", said the teacher in an annoyed tone, " That is no reason for you to be a Niner's fan. You don't have to be just like your parents all of the time. What if you mom was a moron and your dad was a moron, what would you be then?"
"Then, smiled Jamie, we would be Raider fans."
Dear Brahma...
I recieved the following from group member,
Bum's Rush...
One prediction for 1/26: Bush will still be a shmuck. One favorite:
Fareed Haque
This was a banner year of sorts for me and football: every team who reached
the championship I liked and I have little political or emotional interest
at stake Unllike the Landry/Staubach Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Naval Academy Amerikkka's Team, or slimey mafiosa sicilian pride, buy an
election, buy a politician, turn state's witness DiBartola - those are the
type of teams I was obligated by a sense of decency to be against no matter
the odds [ah the joy of watching the big dumb blond american jock 'I won't
play if I am drafted by the colts' elway go down in flames all those times,
and how wretched to watch his team win - but at least by the run - do you
remember the 80's something super bowl between denver and washington and
doug williams had a carreer day after the annoucers had praised elway so
much when denver took an early 7 - 0 lead and washington looked flat? The
black quarterback blew away elway's team, that and just having a better
team.
Here is another prediction: trail blazers over mavs.
I like Sapp, a sure thing #1 draft until he got caught smoking pot, then he
went #8 when the Bucs 'took a chance' on him. But Grudin is too much a
celebrity, and I suppose Sapp has been clean too long and has taken to
cheap shots. I would love to see Rice get another ring if that will mean
he dumps the whiners and retires with the raider jersey (take that you
niner fans that supported dumping rice, as they had montana, to get the
most they could - a slap to those who gave their all - how about letting
them stay until it doesn't work anymore instead of casting them off like
sf landlords to long term residents when dot com money was waved. fuck em,
loyalty means that being #1 (like the bottom line) needs to take a back
seat to giving respect to your own. It's not like the niners have been so
successful once they got rid of rice, no, you get owens thinking he is
some supreme gift and acting like, well, owens - an embarassment. Joe D,
Mickey, Williams were given a chance to finish without being moved out.
Mays wanted to go back to NY (why???? - just kidding).
Another prediction: raiders score first 3 - 0
bum's rush
Dear Bum's Rush:
I agree with your predictions whole heartedly. And one more: I won't win the pool. And the reason Mays was so eager to go back to New York was the pizza. It's entirely understandable.
