Jacked Up (Or Down)Truck

Jennifer and I were driving to the grocery store when we saw this truck. I told her that I would do this to my '97 Saturn SL1.
People are unbelievable.

Sorry, I cut off the front. You get the idea. It's hard to take pictures on the camera phone in a moving vehicle.

QSBC Softball Update

For the two and half people that are interested (my wife is only half interested ), here's the Reagan softball report. We (Quail Springs Baptist) split a doubleheader on Thursday, beating Edmond First Church of the Nazarene, 20-12, in the second game.
I went 1-for-2 in the first game. However, I was thrown out at third base, trying to advance on a hit.
In the second game, I went 1-for-3 with one run scored. I'm not making really good contact at the plate.
Also, I played second base. Yeesh! Traditionally, left-handers don't do very well in the infield (with the exception of first base). Plus, the last time I played second base -- I was 9 years old.
We play one game this Thursday at 6:30 (rain, stay away!)

Rainy, Sleepy Saturday

My Secret Is Out!

My cat, Carlos, is the one who does all of my audio production.
Now, you know.

Here Comes Softball Season

Softball season is coming! I'm playing on a men's league team and a co-ed team with the church this year. Our first men's practice is Thursday! I can hardly wait!

How Low Can The Royals Go??

ESPN' Rob Neyer (a long-suffering Royals fan like me) and The Baseball Prospectus' Rany Jazayerli have a great blog here. I really liked what Rany had to say about the Royals' woes (now 2-11).

I haven't been nearly as critical of the Glass family as a lot of Royals fans, in part because it's hard to argue that ownership is the problem when the Twins won three straight divisional titles under Carl Pohlad, and in part because you can't fire the owner, so criticizing him serves no useful purpose.

But if David Glass is half as committed to winning as he claims to be, he absolutely must do two things:

1) Clean house.  Bring in a GM from somewhere else, and give him the mandate to absolutely blow this organization apart.  A team so fundamentally bad that its pitchers can't throw strikes even when given a mandate to make that their highest priority is a team whose coaching staff is incompetent almost to a man.  If it means whacking two-thirds of the team's on-field personnel, so be it.

2) Stop meddling in team affairs.  Allard Baird didn't create this mess by himself.  Baird may be nice enough to take bullets for his owner, but all that has done is obscure the reality that the Glasses are much more responsible for the team's predicament than the average fan realizes.

Unless and until these two things happen, everything else about this team -- from Zack Greinke and Denny Bautista to Alex Gordon and Billy Butler -- is irrelevant.

Here's another reason to clean house. The losing tradition of the 90s into the new century has made it tough to KC around. Combine that with a small-market situation and you've got trouble. The Royals have become a joke in Major League Baseball.

It also makes what Pena and the '03 Royals accomplished seem more amazing.

(PHOTO: JEFF ROBERSON/The Associated Press)

91 FM Drive-By

I stopped by 91 FM to see Brandon and hang out. I took some photos with my camera phone of the station for posterity (see the first blog entry to find out why)

Here's Brandon in 7-Eleven







This was picture of the computer, but Brandon jumped in the way.

Joel Sucks At Blogging

Here's what happening (in no particular order).
I got a new cellphone (big excitement for a techno geek.) Plus, it was free. (Thanks Cingular)

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My great grandmother, Eula Mae Caswell (or Grandma Honey as we call her), is in the Midwest City Hospital. She had an infection that spread to her blood stream. She lost her appetitte and became very weak. Pray for healing. She is in her mid 90s. (The photo is her holding my grandfather)

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Jennifer and I put up a basketball goal in our backyard (our driveway is very small).

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The Citadel/KISS-FM All-Stars got beat by the Rush Springs Fire Dept. It was a great benefit for the families of those firefighters who are still mourning the loss of Destry Horton.

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Show me your ways, O LORD,  teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

-- Psalm 25: 4-5