The ring’s the thing?
Nate Schierholtz got his World Series ring before the Giants-Cubs game today. The game was almost delayed when Wrigley stadium security had to X-ray this unknown and thus potentially dangerous object.
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So someday will they make a movie like 42 about the first openly gay ballplayer. And will the prejudice seem as archaic?
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A YouGov survey found that more Americans support universal background checks for guns than like apple pie and kittens. Of course, if President Obama came out with a resolution to honor apple pie and kittens, the GOP would filibuster it.
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A Carnival cruise ship picked up 13 Cubans off a raft 40 miles from Key West, and after feeding them turned the refugees over to the U.S. Coast Guard. On the one hand, how disappointed the Cubans must have been to come so close. On the other hand, with Carnival being their taste of the U.S., maybe Cuba won’t seem so bad.
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Terrebonne Parish, a small town in Louisiana wants to ban “sagging” or wearing pants below the waist and exposing their underwear. While they’re at it, can they add a spandex codicil?
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Tiger Woods was assessed a two-shot penalty in the Masters for breaking an arcane rule that could have resulted in disqualification. He remains in the tournament because of another arcane rule. You don’t disqualify Tiger Woods.
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So not sure what the Masters people want now. If Tiger Woods comes back today many will say it’s another example of him overcoming adversity, others will say he should have been DQ’ed. The only sure winner? CBS #Ratings.
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A New York heiress allegedly stabbed her life coach with a fork — just six months after she was arrested for choking her sobriety coach. Even Lindsay Lohan is thinking “this woman is out of control.”
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A man was shot and killed this morning in a San Francisco Nob Hill apartment in what may have been a domestic dispute. These days in the city that prompts two reactions: 1. That’s horrible. 2. So, does this mean the apartment will become available?
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California Speaker John Perez says at Democratic convention that the state of Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon now has a Democratic majority. Of course to be fair Reagan and Nixon these days would be too liberal to be Republican.
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From Bill Littlejohn: JaMarcus Russell may be planning a comeback? The only possible bigger comeback would be if they found Atlantis.
Tags: Cubs jokes, Janice Hough, Masters jokes, San Francisco jokes, Tiger Woods jokes
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Left Coast Sports Babe 
April 14, 2013 at 8:47 am
Dropping his balls where they’re not supposed to be. Isn’t that how all the trouble started?
April 14, 2013 at 9:03 am
I heard it was Lindsay Vonn’s ex that phoned in the tip……
April 14, 2013 at 8:51 am
If Eldrick wins, or comes within 2 shots, this tournament will be marked with a Masterisk.
April 14, 2013 at 1:15 pm
All this hoopla about Tiger’s ball drop, it just may escalade into something really big.