A worm in a previous life?

Thanks for the great worm responses. (Fine example of a sentence I never dreamed I would write)

I was a trifle sad that no one wanted to debate me about Jimmy Rollins but then I realized it is because they know I am right...so that's a good thing.

Gotta agree with Michelle...Brett's worm responses were priceless. A bit creepy...but priceless.

First he explains for us the extremely complicated psyche of the worm...


Well it's a simple case of the way earthworms are wired. All earthworms are hermaphrodites containing both male and female parts. Therefore they are late leaving their homes when it rains because even though their hole is about to be flooded the female part refuses to leave until the hole is very clean because you never know who might show up once the water recedes. Once they are finally out of their homes a sidewalk/roadway is their only choice. Once the rain finishes the male part insists that he does not need directions to find his way back to the hole. Invariably he chooses the way that involves the longest stretch of blacktop and therefore you have shriveled up worms.


The only thing I would add to your analysis Brett is that when the male side of the worm decides he does not need directions, the female side begins to nag him incessantly, thus causing the worm to intentionally throw itself under the foot of the nearest passerby simply to end the cacophony.

Otherwise...spot on.

Then Brett gave us his entry falling under the Twitter like limit of 140 characters...


"How can I possibly be concerned with trivial things like rain when physically I can't distinguish my head from my rear end".


One could argue that any politician in Washington could also make this claim.


Kudos Brett...your prize is in the mail...as is my smack talk for dominating your brackets...


My opinion on the worm phenomena...


Three words..."SLIP AND SLIDE!!!"


Check back with us here at the Hideaway this week as I attempt to Twitter an entire novel using only the wingdings font.

Yes...seriously...

Travel Phenomena

Very tired. A lot has been going on which I will share at some point, but I haven't written in a few days and I miss it. So...just a slice before bed time.

We are out in Wichita (Thanks Hattie for the spelling correction) to visit the fam on my wife's side. Kansas is like Delaware except that is it flatter, there is no ocean, and there are a few more Walmarts.

We flew in yesterday. I am not much of a traveler and what I took as a strange phenomena, some may just take as regular business. We flew out of Philly (at seven in the friggin morning) and went to Memphis. There we got off, sprinted across the airport (why the hell do they always drop me at the farthest gate from my connecting flight? Is it planned out beforehand?), and struggled to get to our connecting flight to Tulsa. The two flights were pretty standard and not terribly thrilling. There was something at the end of each flight that made me smile. After the plane landed, on each flight, the pilot would make his standard "Welcome to __________(insert city name), the time is blah, blah, blah...the temperature is blah, blah, blah, we are glad you chose us, we are glad we didn't plummet to our deaths...yadda, yadda, yadda...". As he was running through the list in a bored, I could really care less voice, the airplane erupted in a chorus of music. At first I really couldn't figure out what it was. A hundred chimes, synthesized piano notes, and bleeps. On the second flight I figured it out. It was the sound of roughly a hundred people turning on their cell phones at approximately the same time. It was an amusing cacophany of tiny, electronic noise. Has anyone else noticed this while flying or was it just me?

In other news...the Phillies really tried to give a win to the Cardinals tonight. As I drift off to sleep the fightins are sitting at 61-50. That is two and a half in front of Florida and three in front of the Mutts (What was that...4 losses in a row New York?). There be a lot of baseball left...bring it on!

And on the Brett Favre front...I still don't give a spit. ESPN does...but then again, they seem to be of the opinion that there is no other NFL news without Favre.

It's late.

I am tired.

Shane Victorino ROCKS!



And if you came here looking for the naked pictures of Brett Favre...GET A LIFE SICKO!!!

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Phills take a close one from the tough Nats...or something like that...

Walk up to Brett Myers right now and ask him how happy he was to face the Nationals tonight. After he finished throwing sunflower seeds at you like a small child he would smile and probably reply "How the f*** do you think I feel?"

Yeppers Brett...nothing like facing a team the caliber of the Nats to make you feel good about yourself again. They only managed to score one run, this thanks to a fielding error by Chase Utley that let the lone run even get on base.

Speaking of Mr. Utley, he remembered how to hit a home-run tonight. It is a good thing he did because the rest of the squad left their bats in Philly. I hope someone can get them down to DC for tomorrow's game.

The Phills should have won this game and they did. Those bats really better show up by tomorrow because they are facing Tim Redding who likes to batter the Phills the way Myers likes to batter his...well... now... that's too easy.

The Mets also won tonight, beating the Marlins 4 to 1 in Miami. You know Miami right? That's the city the doesn't even realize it HAS a baseball team. Old Man Delgado hit a two run shot and Oliver Perez remembered how to win a game after a month of forgetfulness.

So that means we are still half a game back. Let's see what tomorrow brings.

Oh yeah, in other news Brett Favre faxed in his request to be reinstated today, prompting me to say...WHO THE HELL CARES??!!??

And in Other, Other news the Angels just got better by getting Mark Teixeira from Atlanta for a first baseman and a AA righty. Just what we need...thanks Alanta for making the team with the best record even better.