…totaling 40 games.
I got the All-Star ballot email ages ago and this is my first post about the baseball season. Even when the New Market Mallers were third in the five fantasy league - classic piece of benching the under performing Yunel Escobar who then had a cracking game costing me first spot - nothing posted. How could this have taken so long?
Well the last few seasons there’s been things to get it rolling, normally the Yanks doing badly, well they ain’t exactly doing great this season, 19-21, four and a half games out of the first place held by the Rays, who are 7 games over .500 for the first time in their existence thanks to beating the Yanks regularly but they do that every year it seems, and it was 8.5 games back this time last year and the playoffs were reached.
The pitching hasn’t been the greatest, using the kids Hughes & Kennedy didn’t exactly go to plan but isn’t that the case every season the patchwork starting rotation that we are told will be the downfall. Also by this time of the season Mo has blown a number of saves and it’s all talk about the beginning of the end for number 42 but this year perfect ten out of ten saves, 9 hits, 13 strikeouts and no earned runs in 16 innings. Until last night when his first earned run resulted in the Rays extending their unbeaten home streak.
I could have posted yesterday of course about one of my favourite old time players Goose Gossage, a member of the Bronx Zoo, complaining about the way Joba celebrates not being the Yankee way but I left that to those better placed.
Then of course last year we had A-Rod single handedly keeping the team afloat which is hard when you’re on the DL and no one seems to be picking up the slack.
…and your strange searching habits…
All of a sudden there seems to be a great interest in finding stuff on teh interweb about Bingo from the Banana Splits. Well don’t know if the searchers are happy finding a post about a very poor Billie Piper TV show, a number are searching for Chazbaps herself so they might have got excited by the Billie Piper Playboy shot, you never know, or will they be as disappointed as I figured that person searching for “Sheffield swingers club” was when they got a post about then Yankees slugger Gary Sheffield mouthing off about the team.
So Bingo has over taken the Two Ronnies “Mastermind” and “Four Candles” posts as currently the most popular, though there’s still a number out there that want to view those classic comedy sketches, especially the former.
Van Halen and specifically Wolfgang Van Halen are accounting for a number of search engine hits, since they got back on the tour. Then A-Rod’s stripper friend Joslyn Noel Morse reared her head again for some reason and those pics (NSFW) were the main target of searches.
One search that certainly did make me laugh, rather loudly it has to be said was for “bono is a twat t shirt” 
But I figured in the end it must be a teeth thing that people are after, Bingo, Piper and and from just over two years back loads of you strange individuals searching for info on Dennis Waterman’s teeth.
He doesn’t have to write the theme tune, it’s already been done but he could sing it, all together now…
Tra-La-La, La-La-La-La
Tra-La-La, La-La-La-La
Tra-La-La, La-La-La-La
Tra-La-La, La-La-La-La
One banana, two banana three banana, four.
Four Bananas make a bunch and so do many more.
Ramones - Don't Come Close 1978
