- Score
one for baseball’s arcane, mystical and impossible-to-decipher code of conduct.
It’s infuriating to anyone who doesn’t play the game and even those inside of
it seem to have a hard time explaining it, but it boils down to a set of
unwritten rules of ethics and respect on the field that will cause an all-out
brawl if the code is violated. Flipping your bat after a home run, making a
dirty slide into a base or trying to cheat in an unacceptable way are all ways
to violate the code and apparently, so is getting too angry about popping out
to center field when your team is winning by nine runs in a late-season
interleague game. That was the problem for Houston Astros outfielder Carlos
Gomez, who sparked a no-punches-thrown fight during a 15-1 win over the New
York Yankees all because he just missed a Chris Capuano pitch and
disappointedly flipped his bat toward his own dugout as he flied out to center.
He apparently showed too much emotion for some of the Yankees players and
manager Joe Girardi and when some of those men objected, Gomez looked into the
dugout and told them to "shut
up," causing the benches to clear in the sixth inning. Girardi said his
players yelled something at Gomez and that the outfielder misunderstood, while
Gomez claimed he was just looking to have those remarks clarified. "I did
not understand very well what people were yelling at me," Gomez said.
"I just asked, 'Why are you yelling at me?' And then someone came out of
the dugout and started screaming, and I said, 'Shut up, shut up; if you want to
tell me something, come here and say what you have to say.'" That this
came with Houston up 9-0 seems to be much of the problem, but the Yankees need
to dial it down a bit. Being too upset about a bad swing with a nine-run lead
isn't a reason to fight; it’s a reason to be grateful because that same guy
didn’t miss a pitch in his next at bat, when he blasted a three-run home run.
So shut up, ditch the baseball code rhetoric and accept that you got your ass
kicked………..
- It’s
wonderfully ironic when free men and women outside the walls of a prison find
themselves on the inside in orange jumpsuits because they just had to try to
sneak something into the cell block for a friend. Sure, Terry in cell block B
might be your boy or your favorite cousin, but do you really want to get caught
trying to smuggle a baggie of weed or a smartphone into the jail for him and
risk joining him in the exercise yard on a daily basis for your hour of outside
time? Ask that question to two men in Maryland who tried to smuggle packets of
K2 (or synthetic marijuana), tobacco, suboxone, pornographic DVDs and a handgun
into the Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland with a crude drone.
These ass hats were found Saturday on a side road that runs alongside the
prison with their drone, according to the Maryland Department of Public Safety
and Correctional Services. Their ill-fated plan never got off the ground because
they were spotted before their drone could take flight. It seems the vehicle's owner had been under
surveillance for some time and law enforcement suspected the owner and his associate along
with at least one inmate planned to use an unmanned drone to drop off contraband at the prison. "This is the first case in Maryland
where a drone is suspected in a contraband delivery plot," state Public
Safety and Correctional Services
Secretary Stephen Moyer said. Corrections spokesman Mark Vernarelli confirmed
that authorities are still investigating possible ties between the suspect and specific
inmates, but one link they’re not going to find is anything tying the suspects
to common sense or intelligence………….
- Thanks….maybe?
It’s sweet that British electro-indie rockers Foals
are giving away free cassette tapes of their new album 'What Went Down' ahead
of its release on Aug. 28, but how the hell is anyone supposed to listen to it
when no one actually has a cassette player these days? Handing a cassette tape
to anyone under the age of 20 is like handing them a nuclear reactor and asking
them to show you how it works. It’s borderline child abuse, but the spirit
behind giving away free music is good - even if this giveaway isn't nearly as
simple as reaching your hand out for the freebie. The Oxford-based outfit have
launched a global treasure hunt for the tapes, hiding copies of the album at
numerous locations worldwide and sharing the coordinates via social media.
Muse pulled a similar stunt to promote one of their albums a few years ago and
Foals have asked fans to share photos of the tapes
once found while myopically asking those who find them not to digitize them and
put them online. If that doesn’t happen, feel free to be amazed and also know
that it probably has more to do with the people who find the tapes lacking the
equipment and knowledge to digitize the music and upload it than it does with
their willingness to respect the band’s wishes. Clues in the search have been
placed in Madrid, Paris, Oslo, Amsterdam, Berlin and Hamburg for the successor
to 2013’s “Holy Fire.” The new album was recorded in the south of France with
Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons, Mumford & Sons)
and Foals have grown into a very respectable presence on the indie scene over
the past five years, so getting creative in hyping their new album should help
grease the skids for what was already a highly anticipated release………
- Damn
kids. They’re a menace to good things and good people around the world and
nowhere is that truer right now than Taipei,
where a 12-year-old boy just did the sort of damage to a valuable work of art
that normally takes an adult-sized effort. The Taiwanese boy was visiting a
Leonardo da Vinci-themed show in Taipei and during a tour, he did the one thing
museum visitors of all ages around the world live in fear of doing lest they go
viral for all the wrong reasons. The boy tripped while admiring the exhibits
and when he put out his hand to steady himself, he tore a hole "the size
of a fist" in a $1.5 million artwork. "The boy was probably too
concentrated in listening to what the guide was saying, and therefore
stumbled," said Sun Chi-hsuan, one of the exhibition's organizers. Wrecking
a centuries-old painting at a busy exhibition is regrettable and so is the fact
that the incident, at Taipei's Huashan 1914 creative arts center, was captured
on closed-circuit television footage from inside the gallery. The ravaged work
of art was "Flowers," by 17th-century Italian Baroque artist Paolo
Porpora. It was one of 55 pieces on display in "The Face of Leonardo,
Images of a Genius" exhibition - or at least it was until this brat and
his lack of coordinated ruined it. Sun said the cost of repairs to the damaged
painting would be covered by insurance, so the clumsy kid and his family won't
even have to bear the financial burden for this one. "I'm actually
thinking of asking the boy back to be a volunteer in the exhibition for one
day," Sun said, "as a penalty." The painting will be restored by
experts in Taipei, with the back mended first and the paints on the front side
the final step. Credit the curators of the exhibit for being magnanimous and
forgiving here, because they could have dropped the hammer on this twit………..
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