PTG Author Thin Skinned

So I made a couple of comments about the PT Green blog. Obviously, meaning to start a bit of controversy. Seems as though it was a bit hard for him to take. He immediately went on the defensive about his wine drinking habits by listing off some nicknames of wines that he may have seen before, and a region in which there are some vineyards. As if to make us believe that he is an expert....sorry, not fooled. He was also horrified that I don't appreciate his over use of exclamation points and an urban slang term for our Lord and Savior. He then went on to foolishly try to demonstrate his offensive skills by ripping me about the number of readers I have. I've already taken care of that myself. Once again, I already know how small my readership is, I was the one that told him!

I would like to make a comparison of our two blogs. Mine: edgy, controversial, cutting edge, insightful, interesting. His: boring, elementary, irrelevant. I am the Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh while he is the Mr. Rogers and HD DVD. (I will be honest, this is not what I had intended, but what could be better for my readers in the off season than to watch thier favorite blogger rant away about an opponents blog.) This really isn't a fair fight, maybe I should go easy on him?

Returning Upon Request From Fans

Today I began receiving mail from my loyal reader, requesting that I continue to blog. Since this blogger aims to please, and he makes up somewhere between 25 and 50% of my readership, I decided to toss him a bone. However I have decided to lay down some ground rules to make this more interesting. So here are the rules:

1. Y'all know the rules!

2. It could be murder?

3. No matter how much you beg and plead, I refuse to use excessive exclamation points!!!!! I hate that!!!!!!

4. I will not use the word "Jeez". I'm not even sure that "Jeez" is a word. Either way, I don't believe it should be used liberally.

5. I would like return comments after reading my posts, just to keep it interesting for myself.

6. I would appreciate a ranking of each post. Maybe on a 1-10 scale. All rankings below a 9 will be disregarded, and yes, I will accept an 11.

7. There will never, ever, be any references to White Zinfandel. For two reasons: I don't consider it an acceptable beverage for human consumption, and I prefer to forget any occurrence where I have been exposed to that "oops" of wine making. Oh, I guess there is one more reason: THIS IS A SOFTBALL BLOG, not to be confused with a wine snob blog (which may be the next venture, would probably attract more readers).

I think that this does it for my rules. There's only 7 of them. It's not like The Ten Commandments or anything. I know, some of them seem rather selfish, but when you only have 4 readers, tops, and I am including myself in that, I don't think that is too much to ask. So onto softball related items.

Dead Money finished in first place again in the fall season. We knocked down the first place team in the final game of the season to give at least the two of us just two losses on the season. We did it with only 9 men on the field. What a show of defensive dominance. There may be as many as 4 teams with an 8-2 record. We still have two more games to go in our Chanhassen league. We have had a great season so far and I would just like to say: Thank you for reading and suggestions for topics during the off-season would be greatly appreciated.