Night Owl Cards

I was going to track down a photo of Dennis Miller to go with the post title. But those people who claim to have been born in 1985 (and we all know that's an impossibility) would say, "hey isn't that the guy who used big words on Monday Night Football"? And then I'd have to explain that he was using big words much earlier much later (you follow?), and I'd get sidetracked about what I really wanted to write about, which is, uh, basically, nothing. So, instead, we've got a photo of Ms. Fey and Ms. Pohler to appease the young'uns, and we can get to the point of the post much quicker. The point is I always seem to have a bunch of unrelated items to write about on the weekend. So, I'm going to gather them all together here in one tidy post. I'm warning you though: the Dodgers could take sole possession of first place while I'm writing this (they have already won tonight and San Diego and Philadelphia are tied 5-5 in the 9th). And if they do, I ...

Why am I posting about a player I have barely heard of, about a player that two dozen blogs have already posted about, about a player who didn't even have a full season in the big leagues? Because the news of Nick Adenhart's death last night in a car accident, apparently caused by a drunk driver running a red light (and let's not forget two other people died in this accident, too), compels me to write something , anything on the very off-chance that my blog is the only one someone reads today. In fact, I think every baseball blog should have a post about Nick Adenhart today. Write about what you knew about him, how you saw him play, how you saw him pitch, how you saw him in the parking lot, how you saw him laugh, how you saw him grow up. If you didn't know about him, write that. Write about how you wish you had gotten to know him. Write about how angry drunk drivers make you, how we have been talking about the evils of drinking and driving for decades , yet some shit...