Pirates …. best losers around

I realize I’m complaining just like everyone else, but it would be nice to see a winning season, before I die.

But, then again … if you are going to do something, do your best, no matter what it is {{groan}} even losing ….

I  can see the headlines now – “20 great seasons – the best losers in town”.  Not that the team did massively bad this year, but the last time I was able to not watch a game simply because I KNEW the were going to win was in the 70’s and early 80’s.  Baseball games no longer give me that “happy fuzzy” feeling they used to when I was a kid.

Guys …. you have a slim chance remaining …… give us something little this year.

Remember, we gave you that nice new shiny ballpark – let’s get a few more flags for it before we have to build a new one.

-SWB

… {{swish}} missed the ball again ………

My Limoncello project, G-20, and the Pittsburgh Pirates

Well, some good news today:

With a slight bit of issue, my Limoncello project worked out well. Unfortunately I used too much water for the simple syrup, so it freezes … but you learn for the next time.

What does this have to do with the G-20?

Absolutely nothing, except I wanted to see if the combination would get me a few international hits … or maybe a few of the visiting leaders that like Limoncello will find my blog and contract me to make it for them.

Anyway, back to some type of blog posting …

Why the cloud pic?

Two reasons:

1. If are dumb enough to quickly drink Limoncello, that’s pretty much where your head ends up for a few hours.
2. If people think the G-20 is going to yield any immediate results, that’s where their heads are too.

Am I against the G-20? No – but I am worried about how our city will be perceived by the important visitors coming to it. Will they see the city as a “war zone” due to all of the barricades, or will they start throwing treats to the residents on the other side of the fence, because the eight foot fencing makes the whole city look like the Pittsburgh Zoo?

My biggest peeve about the G-20?

The protesters, the boarded up buildings, the loss of business to the city during a time of recovery? …. Nope, none of those.

It is … the Pittsburgh Pirates … yup, the Pirates. Why?

Well, when your team basically sucks beyond belief … you don’t take up thousands of desperately needed parking spaces during a major international event for people that REALLY need them. They could have graciously just forfeited the game (because it wouldn’t have hurt their rating anyway – and they have already achieved the embarrassing milestone of the most losing seasons in professional sports history).

This could have easily helped the parking problem, and more importantly freed up necessary space for protesters, maybe easing tensions and avoiding possible issues. Oh, well … as with most decisions concerning the Pittsburgh Pirates – it was a bad one.

-SWB

PS – I noticed so many useless rants about the G-20 that I felt left out and obligated to make up one of my own. Enjoy.

SWB Off Hiatus, PittGirl is Back, and all is well in the city ..

We’re back from an unintended hiatus, which included jobs loss, combating flooding from the last potential downpour, and keeping the newest tad-frog alive.

Hopefully that won’t happen again …. the flooding, at least.

Well, if you haven’t heard, The Burgh Blog in some way has been revived via Pittsburgh Magazine.  PittGirl is back. It’s nice to see an established publication like Pittsburgh Magazine acknowledge where the city’s readership is at, along with adding an educational writer to the mix.  Now, if they can just become desperate enough to notice me ……

Anyway, congrats to PittGirl, glad to see you in a new home.

This brings us back to all being well in the city.  The Steelers have the Super Bowl, the Pens brought the cup back home, and the Pirates ….. ok, well let’s skip the negative.

Even with the economy the way it has been, Pittsburgh is already starting it’s recovery without hitting rock bottom like so many other cities.  We can still see a light at the end of the tunnel – although everyone still slows to a crawl before entering (some things are just the way they are even during a bad economy).

-SWB

PS – River rats never leave … we just hunker down a bit.

An Extreme Act Of Agression – The Pirates Of Somalia

Yep … it’s time for a clueless award.  For who, this time? That would be the Pirates Of Somalia (sounds like a good movie title).

Now, if you kidnap people from a country, any country … that country is going to try to safely get their people back – even if  that means eliminating you from the planet.  What it comes down to, is if you are dumb enough to hold hostages for ransom and threaten to kill them, you acquire the rite to bite the bullet. The pirates from Somalia have now promised to kill any French or American sailors that are found on board any vessel then may take over.  If you look at history … this no longer is a threat to possible future hostage situations, but an all-out act and declaration of war against France and The United States.  This is because the Pirates on the lifeboat where Captain Richard Phillips was held hostage were killed in his rescue.  What did they expect? … did they think a country would just say “Here is your money … now release our people?”.  This has happened too many times in the last year for that scenario to play out any longer.  Countries will now protect their people more vigilantly from the Somalian Pirates and will more aggressively rescue those that are taken hostage due to the threats just made by the Somalian Pirates until those threats are eliminated.

And the “clueless” award goes to The Somalian Pirates for humorously thinking they can threaten so directly the people of any country without some severe form of retaliation.  It just shows what happens when your brain cells get saturated with salt-water.

Click Here for a reference article from CNN News Online.

-SWB

PS – Men that threaten multiple countries tend to “go boom” themselves.