In case I missed you with my vast email distribution net, you can enter the official Baby Dauernheim Baby Pool by filling out this form and mailing it in with your entry fee. You can also just make a standard college fund contribution too, if you’d like. Any poker players out there, I still have an account on Full Tilt, so you can also get me the $5 that way. I think. Never actually tried it before, but let me know if you want to try.
Almost forgot to mention: For Ellie’s baby pool, we got 45 entries, resulting in a $112.50 windfall for the winner, Wendy Ratkowski. (Who promptly donated her winnings to Ellie’s college fund. Not that there’s any pressure on the winner to do so. Just saying, it was a nice thing to do. Ahem.)
Archive for October, 2006
Baby Pool Entries
October 31, 2006Soriano’s Demands
October 31, 2006A day after he filed for free agency, we’re finding out how far away he and the Nationals were on a contract, thanks to the Orioles. In preliminary discussions with the Orioles, Alfonso Soriano is seeking a deal similar to the 7 year, $119 million one that the Mets gave Carlos Beltran in 2005. That’s a far cry from the 5 years, $70 million the Nationals were offering. If that’s his price, I don’t blame the Nats for bowing out early. We’ll find out in a couple of weeks whether any other teams will be willing to meet that price.
Soriano’s Demands
October 31, 2006A day after he filed for free agency, we’re finding out how far away he and the Nationals were on a contract, thanks to the Orioles. In preliminary discussions with the Orioles, Alfonso Soriano is seeking a deal similar to the 7 year, $119 million one that the Mets gave Carlos Beltran in 2005. That’s a far cry from the 5 years, $70 million the Nationals were offering. If that’s his price, I don’t blame the Nats for bowing out early. We’ll find out in a couple of weeks whether any other teams will be willing to meet that price.
Soriano’s Demands
October 31, 2006A day after he filed for free agency, we’re finding out how far away he and the Nationals were on a contract, thanks to the Orioles. In preliminary discussions with the Orioles, Alfonso Soriano is seeking a deal similar to the 7 year, $119 million one that the Mets gave Carlos Beltran in 2005. That’s a far cry from the 5 years, $70 million the Nationals were offering. If that’s his price, I don’t blame the Nats for bowing out early. We’ll find out in a couple of weeks whether any other teams will be willing to meet that price.
Soriano’s Demands
October 31, 2006A day after he filed for free agency, we’re finding out how far away he and the Nationals were on a contract, thanks to the Orioles. In preliminary discussions with the Orioles, Alfonso Soriano is seeking a deal similar to the 7 year, $119 million one that the Mets gave Carlos Beltran in 2005. That’s a far cry from the 5 years, $70 million the Nationals were offering. If that’s his price, I don’t blame the Nats for bowing out early. We’ll find out in a couple of weeks whether any other teams will be willing to meet that price.
Soriano’s Demands
October 31, 2006A day after he filed for free agency, we’re finding out how far away he and the Nationals were on a contract, thanks to the Orioles. In preliminary discussions with the Orioles, Alfonso Soriano is seeking a deal similar to the 7 year, $119 million one that the Mets gave Carlos Beltran in 2005. That’s a far cry from the 5 years, $70 million the Nationals were offering. If that’s his price, I don’t blame the Nats for bowing out early. We’ll find out in a couple of weeks whether any other teams will be willing to meet that price.
Soriano’s Demands
October 31, 2006A day after he filed for free agency, we’re finding out how far away he and the Nationals were on a contract, thanks to the Orioles. In preliminary discussions with the Orioles, Alfonso Soriano is seeking a deal similar to the 7 year, $119 million one that the Mets gave Carlos Beltran in 2005. That’s a far cry from the 5 years, $70 million the Nationals were offering. If that’s his price, I don’t blame the Nats for bowing out early. We’ll find out in a couple of weeks whether any other teams will be willing to meet that price.
Soriano’s Demands
October 31, 2006A day after he filed for free agency, we’re finding out how far away he and the Nationals were on a contract, thanks to the Orioles. In preliminary discussions with the Orioles, Alfonso Soriano is seeking a deal similar to the 7 year, $119 million one that the Mets gave Carlos Beltran in 2005. That’s a far cry from the 5 years, $70 million the Nationals were offering. If that’s his price, I don’t blame the Nats for bowing out early. We’ll find out in a couple of weeks whether any other teams will be willing to meet that price.
This is Awesome
October 30, 2006Just when I was at my wit’s end, and typing up this rant last week, along comes a new poll by the Washington Post that says that the majority of Virginia Catholics are opposed to the ridiculous “gay marriage” (misnomer) amendment. Not only that, but a whopping 60% say that gays should be allowed to form civil unions that would allow them to have legal rights similar to married couples. This is so frightening to the Church that the bishops in Richmond and Arlington have sent letters to the parishes urging support for the amendment. There’s not much I dislike more than political homilies in church. (The one thing I dislike more is fundraising homilies.)
This quote from the end of the article sums up the argument pretty well (although I disagree with banning gay marriage myself. There goes my political career):
“‘What’s important to me more than anything is fundamental fairness,’ said Scott Peters, a personal trainer in Sterling. He said he disagreed with the church’s stance on abortion as well.
“‘If this amendment just banned gay marriage, I’d vote for it. But I do believe in civil unions, and I just don’t think I can support something that obviously is trying to go after those arrangements. Honestly, I just believe the church is wrong on this one.’”
Quickie recap
October 30, 2006Boy, those Tigers pitchers could use some work fielding their position. Awful how they just gave away runs, and no one to blame but themselves. I really thought they were going to win it all too.
The Giants are on a roll, aren’t they? 4 in a row, and while the win against Tampa Bay wasn’t pretty, it was a win. The defense is playing great, and with a (hopefully easy) matchup against Houston this week, they will host the Bears, who should still be undefeated after playing Miami next week, on November 12 on NBC. You can thank the new flexible scheduling scheme for that one.
My baseball team finally got our bats going yesterday. We played better than we had in a while, but we took a while to get the bats warmed up. Even so, we took the lead near the end of the game, thanks in part to a 3 run bomb by our cleanup hitter, and were clinging to a one run lead in the bottom of the last inning. A couple of dinky hits and unfortunate plays, but a key strikeout by our pitcher, and our opponents had second and third with two outs. The next hitter lofted a lazy popup behind the second baseman. Unfortunately, our second baseman wasn’t going to get back to the ball, so I had to sprint over from shortstop to try to make the play. I just barely missed it, and the tying run scored. The next play was an easy groundball to second, and we ended in a tie. We start the playoffs this week, looking for our own “Mr. November.”
Oh yeah, and I’m pretty sure I officially threw my arm out for about the umpteenth straight season. A lot of discomfort warming up, and the few times I had to throw the ball hard, it was really stinging. I’m definitely getting old.
