From Her To Eternity

8.2.2k9

About a million years ago, Linkey-Loo Robot and I, along with several others attended a Soul Coughing show at Great American Music Hall and we enjoyed the hell out of it. At one point Mike Doughty brought out a pea green guitar, possibly a Fender Coronado, played a few chords, took off the shoulder strap and handed it to a waiting guitar tech. He said, "the hell with that! She sure is pretty, but she sounds like shit." I know the feeling ... I'm a Cubs fan, remember?

The Cubs look DAMN good on paper. If that paper is a stat sheet listing the players' and the team's pre-2009 season stats. If ya look today - LITERALLY TODAY - it's quite a different story. We don't hit, we don't steal, we don't score. We don't get many men on, and when we do, we usually leave them on. We haven't gotten the clutch hit, the needed strikeout or popup or grounder. Our off-season trades gutted our team leaders and have not panned out. Our mid-season acquisitions have been inconsistent. We've been plagued with injuries. And worst of all, we kid ourselves that the worm will turn. I'm almost ready to hang it up and see ya in March in Mesa. It's that bad. And then something happens when we're getting pounded 12 to 1 that makes ya think we deserve it.

Some asswipe in the bleachers dumped a beer onto the opposing team's center fielder as he was about to catch a sac fly. ESPN was covering the game and their cameras got it all, including the jubilant drunk celebrating his direct hit. That kinda shit is unacceptable. I truly hope the cops beat the shit out of him.

You can see the whole thing on YouTube. There's another video that comes up when searching "victorino & beer" on 'tube: It's some fuckin' kid who DESCRIBES the event. No screen grab, no hulu, not even a phone cam video ... no it's some jerkoff kid who just describes it. And worse, his description is terrible. And the lighting sucks. And there's too much headroom. And the camera's too low. And he's ugly. And he thinks the beer throwing is funny. ugh. I fear that -beyond the specifics of this particular video - YouTube will be filled with shitty videos by dumbass people just describing things instead of videoing the actual events.

You know, it probably already is.



Tonight - Club Deluxe.

Burlesque!

bye-ee!

whrr ... clik!