FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[cobbernation]

Very depressing day.

Left work at 11:30 to go to the twins game. Watched Frank Thomas single handedly beat us. Got back to work at 3:10. Depressing.

How can Frank Thomas be good?  It is mind-boggling!!!!

[tmerton]

Better pick up your Hamm's before the prices skyrocket...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/03/hops.fire.ap/index.html

Hmmmm.  Solution - Guinness.  Foreign hops.

[Willy Wonka]

Wonka will be in attendance at Wednesday's Twins game with two of TDT's high school cronies. The first time one of them looks at me funny, he will be getting a knuckle-sammich.

TDT, feel free to pass along the warning.

[DuffMan]

Any word out of Collegeville on Kofoed's status?  Johnniepress?  Anyone?

[Rico 21]

IN BOOF WE TRUST!

[BDB]

The photo that started the Anna-MIACPP relationship returns.

Boof, deal it today like Anna.

[DuffMan]

Is anyone doing anything at work today?  It seem like half of my department is gone.  Of course, I'm leaving early to squeeze some fishing into my day

[BDB]

I guess I can't bust the default on the photos anymore Duff. 

The first time I posted the Anna pitching pic it was huge.

Anyway, you should have the water to yourself since everyone else will be watching the Twins.

[sumander]

Is anyone doing anything at work today?  It seem like half of my department is gone.  Of course, I'm leaving early to squeeze some fishing into my day

Duff, Unfortunately I am "at" work today (notice, I didn't say working). Will once again catch the Twins on TV. Hope the piranhas fight back today!

[CCKnight]

At work as well, although I do work from home, but for the second straight day I have a conference call right in the middle of the twins game.  Yesterday I had conference calls from 1-3, which made it really tough to scream hatefull things at Franky boy.  Apparently they have no considerations for twins fans in the NYC.

[johnnie_esq]

Thank God for the Slingbox...

Though I have a meeting from 1:30 to 2:30.  Doh.

[realistic]

"at" work here as well....but I have to wait till 4 for my Mets to start..... baseball playoffs and march madness, ruining daytime productivity every year.....

[Retired Old Rat]

Jacko Running For Foley's Seat

King of Pop Makes First Foray into Politics

In a stunning development that could radically alter the electoral landscape in the upcoming midterm elections, the singer Michael Jackson announced today that he would run for the seat vacated last Friday by former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.)

Mr. Jackson told reporters that he had never shown much interest in politics before, but added, "When I started reading about Mark Foley, I realized that the House of Representatives was my kind of place."

The platinum-selling recording artist drew big crowds in his first day of campaigning, delighting onlookers in Orlando by getting out of his limo and dancing on its roof.

But in one regrettable gaffe for the novice politician, Mr. Jackson kissed a baby in Daytona Beach and then dangled the child from a hotel balcony.

"My bad," Mr. Jackson later said.

House Republicans expressed muted support for Mr. Jackson's election bid, with Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert saying that he knew of nothing in the singer's past that would prevent him from serving ably in the House.

"Michael Jackson has done a lot of positive things, especially in the field of mentoring," Mr. Hastert said.

According to Buddy Schlantz, a veteran talent agent and observer of the entertainment scene, transforming himself from King of Pop to congressman from Florida could prove to be a shrewd image makeover for the tabloid-ready Mr. Jackson.

"In the outside world, Michael Jackson seems weird and maybe even a freak," Mr. Schlantz said. "But once he's in Congress he'll seem perfectly normal."

Elsewhere, in Stockholm, Sweden, the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Barry Bonds.

[tmerton]

Jacko Running For Foley's Seat

King of Pop Makes First Foray into Politics

In a stunning development that could radically alter the electoral landscape in the upcoming midterm elections, the singer Michael Jackson announced today that he would run for the seat vacated last Friday by former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.)

Mr. Jackson told reporters that he had never shown much interest in politics before, but added, "When I started reading about Mark Foley, I realized that the House of Representatives was my kind of place."

The platinum-selling recording artist drew big crowds in his first day of campaigning, delighting onlookers in Orlando by getting out of his limo and dancing on its roof.

But in one regrettable gaffe for the novice politician, Mr. Jackson kissed a baby in Daytona Beach and then dangled the child from a hotel balcony.

"My bad," Mr. Jackson later said.

House Republicans expressed muted support for Mr. Jackson's election bid, with Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert saying that he knew of nothing in the singer's past that would prevent him from serving ably in the House.

"Michael Jackson has done a lot of positive things, especially in the field of mentoring," Mr. Hastert said.

According to Buddy Schlantz, a veteran talent agent and observer of the entertainment scene, transforming himself from King of Pop to congressman from Florida could prove to be a shrewd image makeover for the tabloid-ready Mr. Jackson.

"In the outside world, Michael Jackson seems weird and maybe even a freak," Mr. Schlantz said. "But once he's in Congress he'll seem perfectly normal."

Elsewhere, in Stockholm, Sweden, the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Barry Bonds.

ROR - Reading the San Francisco Chronicle again I see. 

[tmerton]

Good omen for Twins (and bad omen for those wine-sipping A's) - beer man helps deliver baby at gas station.