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Mr. Unlucky’s Almanack

Do the aphorisms and observations of Benjamin franklin and his Poor Richard still apply, or are we beyond hope and salvation?

Archive for October, 2007

San Diego Padres centerfielder Mike Cameron has been suspended 25 days following a positive test result for a banned substance.
His response–it was something that mysteriously appeared in a supplement he bought at GNC or some such place, but he no longer has the original so he can’t prove it.
Okay.  We’re buying that.  It’s all GNC’s [...]

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I realize that these baseball sports analysts and announcers have to make things sound exciting, but really now, folks, the Colorado Rockies couldn’t beat the Tampa Bay Bucaneers in a seven-game series.
What are these idiots smoking to pick the Red Sox only in seven, or worse, to pick the Rockies in any amount of games?  [...]

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Baseball Commish Bud Selig and his chief cover-up artist, George Mitchell, are in hiding over recent events. 
First, the ball that steroids-aided Barry Bonds hit for his record 756th home run is going to Cooperstown with an asterisk attached.  Then, a colleague of Bonds’s at Balco, Marion Jones, was caught lying and cheating and forced to [...]

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