Congrats to my buddy Anthony Fordyce (Fordy), who is getting married today. I am going to the wedding later on, meaning I will be wearing a suit and tie today for only the thrid time in the past two and a half years or so. I always have to hand it to a guy who has the confidence to put his balls out on the table and get married to the right woman at the right time, especially when it's a guy of Fordy's virility. What a stud. I mean, that's how it's supposed to work, right? His bride Anne is a lovely young lady, and often comes to our softball games, which demonstrates an exemplary level of dedication.
Other Saturday notes:
- HFB to my cousin Natalie, who's 24 today.
- From the hard to believe until you think about it stat file: According to Rays Index (raysindex.blogspot.com), a Devil Rays blog that I read semi-daily, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays have the highest regular season winning percentage of Tampa's three major professional sports teams, besting to this point the Bucs and Lightning. Think about it for a second.
- From the not hard to believe at all stat file: The Devil Rays turned a 2-2 game in the 6th inning at Yankee Stadium into a 7-3 loss. They'll try for a double header split tonight when the two teams meet again at 7:05. The cursory bullpen bed-shitting in the matinee was compliments of Jae Kuk Ryu, who gave up five runs in the 6th, all with two outs. Before being picked up by the Devil Rays, Ryu was most famous for intentionally throwing a baseball at a bird while in the minor leagues, killing it. So Ryu is not only a piece of shit on the field, but off of it as well.
- Exactly six weeks and 26 minutes from right now as I type, the 2007 Florida Gators will take the field at The Swamp to play the season opener vs. Western Kentucky. Saturday's in the fall are the times when it is strangely exciting to announce the names of colors in a loud tenor, only to have others off in the distance respond by yelling out another, different color. ORANGE....
