Tuesday, February 08, 2005 |
Pickoff Moves
DaVanon-Lust
El Lefty Malo pines for Jeff DaVanon in a platoon role with aging former Dodger Marquis Grissom. Of course, Alex doesn't bother to give us any inkling of what he'd give the Angels in return, but seeing as how (a) he makes a pretty good case that Sabean's been one of the better GMs out there over the last decade or so, (b) Stoneman never makes trades, and (c) the overall talent level in the Giants' minors took a big hit last year (John Manuel said they would rank last in the NL West), this idea isn't going anywhere. So for now, Maya's raison d'être is safe.The Infinitely Long Line
Tommy Murphy has made the discovery, as so many others, that it's tough to get to the majors. Murphy, now redoubling his training efforts, formerly "got by mainly on talent and athleticism". The converted shortstop -- he will patrol centerfield for the Stingers in 2005 -- has a shot at making the big club as a reserve from spring training, but as usual for these things, it's something of a long shot: .263/.313/.383 isn't exactly a good line in a hitter's league. The line of recruits ahead is long, and so is the one behind.Zzzz... Name Change .... Snort
Bleah. LAAoA it stays. Whatever.A mostly unrelated but cautionary tale: some years ago, I was at the Fox Hills Mall -- this was probably around the time it had just been converted to a Westfield Shoppingtown or whatever branded mallcrap it later became -- and downstairs at the Starbucks was a lithesome if somewhat typically dense blonde val wearing the uniform of her kind: tight fitting jeans below and a top that, of course, only completely covered her torso when standing perfectly erect. At all other times, said ensemble revealed rather more flesh -- as when she bent over to pick up something. As seems to now be the custom, she had a tattoo on the small of her back just above the beltline, only this was no fairy, unicorn, butterfly, or barbed wire. No, this was Hangul script -- Korean. I asked her what it meant, and she told me (of course, I immediately forgot it), but for all she knew, it said something scatological, sexual, or just plain nutty. Not only could she not directly physically read it, she confessed to being illiterate in Korean.
Which brings us to this fellow who succumbed to the temptation to tattoo something rather different from what the customer had requested, in Japanese script. Jailed, he continued his sneaky-assed (literally) malfeasance by tattooing Winnie the Pooh on the backs of hardened criminals instead of skulls, or switching gang affiliations in tattoo form (Bloods to Crips, say). Caveat lector; thus the lesson endeth.
Google Maps
In case you haven't seen it, this rocks.
I think Mapquest used to have a feature to do this but they subsequently discontinued it; maybe it was coming from Keyhole.
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