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Wednesday, Apr. 09, 2003 - 9:31 p.m.

Another baseball game, another loss (not Codeman�s fault, though)�plus- my thoughts about today�s events (sure to cause a few more people to remove me from their favorite�s list)�

When I showed up at the ballpark tonight, the game had already started.

I thought that was odd, since the start time was given as 4:15, and it was only 4:10.

One look at the scoreboard, and I was totally confused. It read Mac 7, St. Catholic High School Across Town 5. It also said it was the 7th inning!

I though I must have misread the schedule or something. Then it finally dawned on me: they were finishing the darkness-shortened tie game from last month.

Codeman�s friend Jordan had just brought home 2 runs with a wicked line drive down the first base line. After another batter walked, the third out was made by the good guys. Mac managed to hold off S.C.H.S.A.T. in the bottom of the 7th, and added another notch to their win column.

The second game started in about 10 minutes, and something really odd happened: Codeman was in the starting lineup!

WooHoo!

O.k., to be fair he was only in it as the Designated Hitter. He wasn�t playing the field, but was in the batting order.

I think the coach might have wished he had given him the start in right field (his natural position), after what happened to the various people he tossed out there for the second game.

Let me see�what all did they do?

Player #1 dropped a routine fly ball, and then allowed a easy ground ball to go through his legs to the wall. That cost the team 4 runs, considering all of this happened with 2 outs.

Coach pulled player#1 (a senior who usually plays 1st base), and inserted player #2 into right field. He had 2 uneventful innings out there, but was needed to play the infield when the team changed pitchers.

Player #3? He dropped another fly ball that should have been caught. Two runs scored.

The final score of the game?

10-6.

Ouch!

It was 10-2 going into the 7th. The only runs we had until then were on another Jordan home run. Aside form that, the team only managed to scratch out 2 other hits.

And no, Codeman didn�t get them. HE walked his first time up and was left stranded on second base. He hit a first pitch (ball, not a strike) for an easy ground out his second at-bat. He lined a ball down the third base line that made it to the fence on several hops, but it was about 3 feet foul. He finished that at-bat with a slow roller off of the end of his bat that he almost beat at for an infield single. He ended the game standing on the on-deck circle when the last out was made. If that batter had reached base, Codeman would have been the tying run, stepping to the plate.

So, not a bad game, but nothing to write about, either.

Oh yeah, I did write about it anyway.

You never know- he might not get into another game for a while�.


Wild images on the Telly today, to say the least.

Statues being toppled to the ground (with a little help from an American tank-removal vehicle, after Baghdad residents couldn�t do it by themselves).

A large man, hammering away at the base of this statue with a 16-pound sledgehammer (reminding me of past footage of Russian citizens, doing the same thing to the ubiquitous Stalin statues).

The citizens of Baghdad, dragging the head of the statue down the street. One man riding on the back, hitting it repeatedly with his shoe (a major insult from a resident of Iraq, or so we have been told).

Large crowds of people dancing and celebrating the apparent end of the 20+ years of dictatorial rule by Saddam Hussien. Not attacking our troops in the predicted �bloodbath� that most of the network �experts� had predicted, just a few days ago.

Video footage of the prison that held children who didn�t join Saddam�s youth Baath party(!) Over 150 children, some as young as 8 when they were imprisoned.

More footage of the cells used for the torture of anyone the leaders of Iraq deemed deserving of this treatment. In one case, a man had been strapped up with a wire cable from the roof of his cell and beaten with pipes just hours before the British troops reached the prison, causing the jailers to flee.

I am not someone who enjoys war. I have stated before that I want every other option attempted before it comes to dropping bombs and getting people killed (soldiers and civilians alike). I know that civilians died in this three-week invasion. War, even one fought with the most precise GPS-guided bombs, will kill all they contact, not just military targets.

But this country has lived under the heel of this sick fucker and his bizarre, sadistic sons for a long time. He had no problem killing his own people, whether it was with poison gas (at least 100,000, maybe 150,000 Kurds that he wanted to �eliminate�), torture chambers (untold numbers), or by putting his civilians in situations that caused them to be in harms way (stationing soldiers in schools, hospitals, and mosques). Woman and children have been used in combat as human shields (what kind of man would use a woman�s skirt to hide behind in battle?).

Wanna read what the residents of other Arab countries think of the fall of Hussien�s reign? Click here to see what they have to say (they can�t believe that it happened, after all of the press conferences (saying they were winning and that �American and British soldiers were committing suicide , rather than fighting the brave Iraqi fighters!�) by that wacky Iraqi minister of Dis-information Mohammad Said Sahhaf !

Maybe this is why the citizens of Baghdad didn�t attack our troops. Instead, they filled the streets to welcome them.

If a war had to happen, I only hoped it would be quick as possible to spare as many non-military deaths as possible.

3 weeks?

If Peter Arnett was right when he gave his opinions on Iraqi television a little over a week ago (Said Mr. Arnett -"The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.")

Plan B must have been much better than plan A��..


O.k. � no more war stuff here in Roadiepig. I think I wrote just enough tonight to (again) piss off folks on both sides of the issue.

Tomorrow�s entry will be about the garden.

I promise��..

Antique - Futuristic


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