The ConMan

As I detailed a while back, the Mrs. and I bought a new car. I’ve received lots of requests that I post a photo of the new wheels, and I finally got around to getting a good angle shot:

My new car beeps whenever someone takes his or her seatbelt off prior to the vehicle comes [...]

Greetings on this Patriots Day holiday.  This is the one day of the year in which I get to sleep late while the Mrs. has to get up and go to work.  This only happens about once every 3 or 4 years or so, when the RI school vacation week [...]

Here are the Conman’s predictions for the 2009 season:

AL East:

Boston

New York (WC)

Tampa Bay

Baltimore

Toronto

AL Central

Cleveland

Minnesota

Kansas City

Chicago

Detroit

AL West

Los Angeles

Oakland

Texas

Seattle

Playoffs: Boston over Los Angeles; New York over Cleveland; Boston over New York

NL East:

New York

Philadelphia

Atlanta

Florida

Washington

NL Central:

Chicago

St. Louis

Cincinnati

Milwaukee

Houston

Pittsburgh

 NL West

Los Angeles

Arizona (WC)

San Francisco

Colorado

San Diego

Playoffs:

New York over Arizona; Los Angeles over Chicago; Los Angeles over New York

World Series: Boston over Los Angeles

I think I’m going to enjoy this as much as I did Borat:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/film/article2357203.ece

Most of you know who George Brett is. He played third base for the Kansas City Royals for 21 seasons, from 1973-1993.  He had a .305 lifetime batting average, 3154 career hits, was a 13 time All Star, won an MVP in 1980, when he hit .390, won batting titles in 3 different decades (1976, 1980, 1990), [...]