THE FUTURE IS NOW

Washington D.C., here is the face of your baseball salvation:

Stephen Strasburg, 7 innings, 14 strikeouts, no walks, gets the win, gets pied, gets a funny founding father plastic wig.* Nationals, no! Don't burden him with vestiges of your/our country's tepid past. He is THE FUTURE. STEP FORWARD INTO THE LIGHT.

*Actually, this is an Elvis wig and some sort of Nationals dugout tradition. I didn't know this because I've never watched an entire Nationals game...especially not one where they won. Have you?

Pods

I was going to write up a small post about Scott Podsednik, who was a pivotal player on the White Sox 2005 world series team, and may not play baseball this year. BUT, while looking for some flattering pictures of him I stumbled on a post on another blog that really did all the work for me.

The whole post can be found here, but here are some highlights:

Scott is beautiful. Let’s just get that out of the way up front.

I should also mention that the title of the blog post is "Hump Day Hottie: Scott Podsednik." Here's a little more:

He’s a humble, small-town country boy who’s made good- and if he wasn’t so damned cute, I couldn’t have forgiven him for that walkoff-HR against Lidge in the ‘05 World Series.

Our blogger is from Texas, which accounts for the resentment over the 2005 World Series and the affinity to being a "country-boy," I guess. But I think he falls more into the "Zach Morris" category, rather than the "Roy Hobbs" one.


Oh yeah, and it's opening day this weekend. I feel like the baseball season has already been going on for months. Somebody should sign Scotty P, like these guys: "it’ll be a shock if they don’t finish in last place."