I’m also amazed to learn that the Pirates are only “one or two players short of being great.” I’d have figured after 19 straight losing seasons that they’d shoot for “halfway decent” first.

I was feeling lazy yesterday so used the packet.

I dont want to hear cause of owners being cheap either!

Sign Ryan T., then work on an extension with B.Phillips and J.Votto. First, sign Brandon, extend him two more years, counting this year for a total of three years – 30 million. 9 m, 10 m, and 11 m in the final year. Brandon is great person/ballplayer for the city of Cincinnati. We are lucky to have a great group of guys like Joey, Brandon, Jay, Drew, and Scott.

Incidentally, Cincinnati fans and residents, I fixed myself a modified Cincy-style huevos rancheros this morning – basically, the usual Mexican dish but made with a heaping dollop of Gold Star Chili, made with organic free range ground chicken, instead of the usual Tex-Mex stuff. Two sunnyside up organic free range eggs over a couple of slightly toasted whole-grain corn tortillas, topped with the Cincy chili, diced organic onions and shredded sharp cheddar soy cheese. I’m counting on the isoflavones in the soy cheese to ward off the evil effects of the sodium and nuclear fuel rod byproducts in the chili mix.

I was in the big C (is that what they call it up there?) a few weeks ago for the annual Over the Rhine holiday homecoming concert and met some local friends up at Camp Washington Chili for breakfast, which is where I originally got the idea. They were happy to serve me a bowl of the stuff to dump over my eggs. It’s taken me a few weeks to get around to it but man, in this somewhat sanitized form, this is gonna be a regular weekend brunch fixture (though I will find a scratch recipe I can modify to get the industrial pollutants out of the mix). Try it.