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In typical short attention span fashion, I present today's Good, Bad, and Stupid.
Good
Last night, the Cincinnati Reds overcame a pathetic pitching performance from Johnny Cueto and defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 9-8, thus ensuring the Reds finish the early June series no worse than tied for first place in the National League Central. Admittedly, the win was huge since today's nationally broadcasted game on ESPN features Chris Carpenter for the Cardinals taking on recently called up Sam LeCure who won his major league debut last week against the Houston Astros.
In additon to the big Reds win, the Reds also made the news by donating some dirt to a poor inner-city school in the Marshall community. While the story wasn't about the Reds (it was actually about a great display of sportsmanship that is mostly lacking in sports lately), the story did highlight a good thing the Reds were doing to help out local communities.
Bad
Of course, all isn't necessarily good everywhere in the world. In Guatemala City, there's apparently a gigantic sink hole that has opened up...looks completely photoshopped to me which makes it that much scarier. Perhaps the Mayans were right with their 2012 predictions after all between giant sinkholes and oceans full of oil.
Stupid
And finally, the stupid. It appears the Marlins decided that while getting perfect-gamed wasn't much fun, it might be profitable. The Florida Fishes have made all unsold tickets from Roy Halladay's perfect game available for sale...at full retail price. That's right, you can pay full price for a ticket to a game that's already over with. Despite the Marlin's bravada about this being a way for collector's to snag a piece of history, the entire idea of selling tickets to a previous game reeks of cash-grab-itis. Heck, if you were a Marlins fan (and I'm not sure who is but if you are please contact me so I can dump a bunch of Marlins cards off on you for cards I might actually want), wouldn't you feel a bit gypped by this? Imagine being a Marlins season ticket holder who actually attended the game. Maybe you hate the Phillies but at least by attending the game you got to see history - and as one of the 25,806 fans in attendance that day, your ticket stub might actually fetch a nice little sum on eBay. Not so quick buddy, the big 'ol Marlin front office decided they needed that $29.99 much more than you do. Simply stupid.
Image source:
Sinkhole
Good
Last night, the Cincinnati Reds overcame a pathetic pitching performance from Johnny Cueto and defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 9-8, thus ensuring the Reds finish the early June series no worse than tied for first place in the National League Central. Admittedly, the win was huge since today's nationally broadcasted game on ESPN features Chris Carpenter for the Cardinals taking on recently called up Sam LeCure who won his major league debut last week against the Houston Astros.
In additon to the big Reds win, the Reds also made the news by donating some dirt to a poor inner-city school in the Marshall community. While the story wasn't about the Reds (it was actually about a great display of sportsmanship that is mostly lacking in sports lately), the story did highlight a good thing the Reds were doing to help out local communities.
Bad
Of course, all isn't necessarily good everywhere in the world. In Guatemala City, there's apparently a gigantic sink hole that has opened up...looks completely photoshopped to me which makes it that much scarier. Perhaps the Mayans were right with their 2012 predictions after all between giant sinkholes and oceans full of oil.
And finally, the stupid. It appears the Marlins decided that while getting perfect-gamed wasn't much fun, it might be profitable. The Florida Fishes have made all unsold tickets from Roy Halladay's perfect game available for sale...at full retail price. That's right, you can pay full price for a ticket to a game that's already over with. Despite the Marlin's bravada about this being a way for collector's to snag a piece of history, the entire idea of selling tickets to a previous game reeks of cash-grab-itis. Heck, if you were a Marlins fan (and I'm not sure who is but if you are please contact me so I can dump a bunch of Marlins cards off on you for cards I might actually want), wouldn't you feel a bit gypped by this? Imagine being a Marlins season ticket holder who actually attended the game. Maybe you hate the Phillies but at least by attending the game you got to see history - and as one of the 25,806 fans in attendance that day, your ticket stub might actually fetch a nice little sum on eBay. Not so quick buddy, the big 'ol Marlin front office decided they needed that $29.99 much more than you do. Simply stupid.
Image source:
Sinkhole
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