"Honey, I made it into Sports Illustrated

[Guest Mr. Zero]

Sorry dudes, I've been away, luxuriating in my Seaverness.

An interesting aside to this discussion:

Little League ethics

Kindly disregard if this is ye olde news.


And I wanted to make my Ron Hodges post extra special.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Don't expect hail for Ron Hodges.

[Willets Point]

="Yancy Street Gang"]Don't expect hail for Ron Hodges.

There's just no love for geeky English accounting professors.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Geeky? That guy would reach down your throat, pull your heart out, and show it to you before you die.

[seawolf17]

Hey, Ron! Long time no see.

[Willets Point]

="Yancy Street Gang"]Geeky? That guy would reach down your throat, pull your heart out, and show it to you before you die.

I'm sure he appreciates your recognition of his special powers. Now hail him damnit!

[Guest Mr. Zero]

another Coach of the Year candidate:

from the Ottawa Citizen:

]A youth coach accused of offering an eight-year-old $25 to bean an autistic teammate so he couldn't play was convicted yesterday in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, of two lesser charges against him. A jury convicted Mark R. Downs Jr., 29, of corruption of minors and criminal solicitation to commit simple assault. Downs was acquitted of criminal solicitation to commit aggravated assault, and jurors said they were deadlocked on a charge of reckless endangerment. The judge declared a mistrial on that charge. Authorities said Downs offered to pay one of his players to hit a nine-year-old autistic teammate with a ball while warming up before a playoff game in June 2005. A player testified that, on Downs' instructions, he purposely threw a ball that hit the mildly autistic and mildly mentally disabled boy in the groin, then threw another ball that hit the boy in the ear. Under state sentencing guidelines, Downs likely faces only probation when he's sentenced Oct. 12 because he is not known to have a criminal record.