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But seriously, folks – the only other lizard-borne disease I’m aware of is pulmonary anthrax, which is carried in the saliva of the Komodo dragon. In dragons, it’s a symbiont; the lizard is immune but the infection helps bring down large prey that the dragon bites but cannot overpower immediately. It just tracks a wounded deer or pig for a few hours with its elegantly bifurcated tongue and then finishes off its dinner when the infection sufficiently weakens it.

It’s also been discovered recently that the dragon’s saliva itself is venomous, making it only the third known poisonous lizard along with the Mexican beaded lizard and Gila monster. Ask any native of Komodo or Flores about it and they’ll throw up their hands in exasperation and ask, “who needed those *!%#* things to be poisonous too?”

By the way, I suppose even as awful as rabies treatment must be, I think it’s still even-up with being slashed by a leprotic armadillo.

Baltimore’s bullpen showed up last night also, 3.2 IP and no hits allowed. After the 4 and 5 hour games in Boston, last night’s 2:19 in front of 10,000 (hey, it’s like the Mausoleum-but nicer) was refreshing.

Says a child was bitten. Sucks, man. Rabies treatment is as painful as the bite if not more so if they go the old school cheap route. If it’s the newer treatment then its not as bad (bit like a series of flu shots I think).

Well, all I got left to say is that a majestic and noble animal like the beaver should not be allowed to acquire rabies. What a cruel jest of god that this is so. Do horny toads get rabies? It’s just salmonella you have to worry about with lizards isn’t it?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43301853/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/bizarre-rabid-beaver-attacks-philly-park/

Sign this beaver up as a Phanatic!

As for the ‘Yankee Philosphy of Scoring’ what you do is build a tiny, pretty ballpark and get guys who hit exactly 399 feet. Then you can hit you some home runs.

As opposed to the KC method; play some D, hit some bloops, have a HUGE gorgeous park that sits mainly empty even when some ball is being played, and suck for years till you acquire a rotation not unlike the 2011 Phillies. Then you got a crack once in 25 years at contending. How does that ball club stay in business?

That being said, it just swallows home runs up and allows speedy fielders to get some excercise. The Jays lost to that stadium and Felipe Paulino, all 6 foot 8 of him, who pitched as well as Brandon Morrow (who pitched well for a nice a change). It came down to Frank Francisco and some lousy pitching as he served some walks, 1 intentional (I mean why bother with the intentional pass? Let Frank pitch to the guy. Comes to the same thing in any event and maybe he gets himself out swinging at every pitch off the plate. Meh. Managers. Why are they there except to try and look clever?) and then the wee bloop single and BOOM there’s the game in the 11th.

Note to the Jay’s hitters; swing at the strikes. Trying to get a hit when you are already 2 down, as you watch straight pitch at belt high after straight pitch at belt high pop into the catcher’s mitt, is not so easy. Just a thought.

Really it would just be nice not to have the worst record in baseball.