New Pitching Motion

  I guess it's not really that new, but I just found out about Dr. Mike Marshall's pitching technique.  Instead of using your arm muscles and putting a large amount of strain on your elbow, he teaches the use of your arm muscles and your back muscles.

  It looks really goofy, but it seems to make sense.  This Mike Marshall guy won the Cy Young in 1974 then went on to get his Ph.D in kinesiology.  He believes his system will completely rid the baseball world of arm injuries caused by pitching.

Here is a YouTube video

 Here is his website

Purse Hook

  You may call me a homo, but I saw one of the coolest things ever tonight.  I was getting drunk at The Mont with my wife when I saw a woman at the table next to us with her purse hooked to her table.  Stephanie had to put her purse on a big pile of bird shit while this lady had a perfect place to hang her purse.  It looks kind of cheap and trashy, but it actually worked really well. I just thought I would let everyone know.

Dhani Jones

    My wife and I have started watching a new show on the Travel Channel.  It's called Dhani Tackles the Globe.  Dhani Jones is an NFL linebacker who travels to different countries and learns to play the national sport.  He's been to England and learned rugby, Switzerland and learned to swing, and Thailand to learn Muay Thai boxing.

  It's a pretty sweet show. Dhani is funny and really tries to learn the sport.  Check it out Mondays at 8.

Movie Characters

  Question:  If you could be any movie character, who would it be?

RULE: You can't have superpowers.

  My top 3:

1. Ty Webb (Chevy Chase in Caddyshack)

2. Erwin Fletcher (Chevy Chase in Fletch)

3. Crash Davis (Kevin Costner in Bull Durham)

  I promise I don't have a mush on Chevy Chase, he just always plays cool characters.  

Boston Trip

  Steph and I booked our honeymoon through Expedia.  We're going to Boston in July.  Long story short, I got an e-mail from Expedia telling me my flight had been changed and was now landing 3 hours later.  This wouldn't work for us because we have Red Sox tickets for that night.

  I called Expedia to get the time changed.  I waited on hold for a little over 20 minutes before a nice young lady named Tammy answered.  I explained my dilemma to her and she told me I'd have to pay $300 to get it changed back.

  What? Are you fucking kidding me?  She said I could call Delta and see if they could do it.  Then, I asked her for her extension. She doesn't have one. What's her last name? She didn't want to say. Were there other Tammys that work there? They have call centers all over the world.  At which call center does she work? Uhhh...Northwest. Very helpful, huh?

  I called Delta fully expecting to argue for an hour.  After waiting for only 6 minutes, Kathy picked up the phone. She fixed my problem, charged me $0 and cut out a layover in the process. Wow. That was easy.

  I wrote Expedia a lengthy and well-written e-mail complaint explaining the situation and requesting a response.  We'll see.