Wednesday Grab Bag

- OK, first thing i want to catch up on is DID YOU SEE THE 22 INNING GAME??? well i wouldn't expect you to have seen the game, but did you hear about it. What an amazing feat. I can't believe they didn't call it, but now we hold the record for the longest game in the last 15 years. And thanks to my main man, Tulowitzki, he won it for us and let everyone go to bed. Last night's game the commentators were saying there was another team that was complaining of playing because they're plane was late and they didn't get to the hotel until like 2AM. and the guy was like "Rockies aren't going to give any sympathy. they didn't stop playing until 2:30AM the other night and they played an afternoon game the next day.
But we need a MUCH better bullpen to pull this season out. We have been really loosing games because of the relief pitching.. They all suck.

- The Dude from That's So Raven, Orlando Brown, has been missing since tuesday. The thing i read said that he left his managers home to walk to the local 7-11 and has never returned. This day and age, it is sad, but my first reaction is, I am sure it is for publicity, what does he have coming out soon, when is it going to be released.. Today, it isn't enough to put up a poster with a date and time and expect people to know about your event, gig, movie. etc. People have to go to all kinds of lengths to get things noticed. I hope he is OK, and nothing bad had happened fir sure.. Please prove me wrong and come back with some wild tale of LA gangs.

- OK, What priest thinks it's a good idea to strap himself to some balloons and sail off.. I mean really.. What went wrong there??? Did they not check the wind forecast, did they not predict that maybe they should tether him? Follow with a boat, a helicopter. I am just an archivist at a small television station and i can think of this stuff, what the heck went wrong?? And they said that he was really prepared, thermal suit, flotation chair, parachute, satilite phone... When is the time that you don't see land anymore and think, maybe i shouldn't use this phone to call for help.. I really want to know what happened there.. Keeping my ears open for that news.

- 30 days of debauchery update. I had a whiskey drink before bed last night.. that was all i could come up with short of throwing myself down a flight of stairs, but we don't have stairs, so i had to settle with the whiskey.

- And I have noticed that i have not given you the interesting tid-bits about the day lately. I apologize, and to be honest i got lazy. But don't fret, they are back.. Here is what you would have missed about today if i didn't post it.

Today is Baywatch Day. The popular TV series debuted on this date in 1989. The last episode of produced in 2001. Syndicated in 142 countries with an audience of 1.1 billion, it was the most widely viewed TV series in the world.

Today is Administrative Professionals Day. It was once called Secretaries Day.

Today is National Cherry Cheesecake Day. (Friggen YUM)

Electronic Communications Week and National Playground Safety Week begin today.

Today is Children's Day in Turkey and Book Day and Lover's Day in Spain.

Today is National Sovereignty and Children's Day in Turkey.

Today is World Book and Copyright Day, sponsored by the United Nations.

1975: B.J. Thomas scored with the longest song title to hit #1 on Billboard’s pop music chart: "(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song." It stayed #1 for one week.

1985: Coca-Cola announced it was changing the secret flavor formula for Coke. Negative public reaction forced the company to resume selling a version similar to the original.

1989: With the first pick in the NFL draft, the Dallas Cowboys chose UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman.

1989: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played his last game with the Los Angeles Lakers.

1991: The U.S. issued a patent (#5,008,959) to Edward and Richard Coppage of Centreville, Virginia, for their Bulletproof Dress Shirt, a bulletproof shirt that can be manufactured in various colors and styles to keep a person fashionable and safe.

1997: A replica of playwright William Shakespeare's English birthplace, Stratford-on-Avon, opened 40 miles east of Tokyo, Japan.

2001: Two Canadian youngsters used a blanket to catch a four-year-old boy falling from a fourth-floor window. Police praised nine-year-old Stephanie Boddy and six-year-old Samantha Quinn for their quick reactions. The girls saw Skyler Christou toppling out of a window in Barrie, Ontario, when they were having a picnic. Samantha and Stephanie used their blanket to catch the toddler. He bounced off onto the ground, but the blanket broke the fall and he was not seriously hurt.

2002: President Bush's top White House aide, Karen Hughes, resigned to go home to Texas with her family.

2005: Health officials in Vietnam said they feared the South Asian outbreak of bird flu was likely to spawn a pandemic.