Something good happened Saturday. The Kentucky Derby attended mostly by the pretentious rich was held in less than perfect conditions. Yep, sloppy, muddy yuk! One of the horses not owned by the Arabs was hauled by a pickup truck from New Mexico and entered in this race against "giants". Wouldn't you know the "little guy" named "Mine The Bird" won at 50-1 odds. The owner had to limp on crutches to the winner circle. The toothless jockey must have had a drink or two before the race explaining his crazy exhuberance. It is actually a better story than "Seabiscut". And in the end, the Arabs loaded their throughbread steeds into their modified jet aircraft and zoomed back to the middle east. Money can't always buy every-thing.
Yesterday, the movie star Denise Richards (recently on Dancing with the Stars), sang "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at Wrigley Field in Chicago during the seventh inning stretch. It was worse that Roseanne Barr's rendition of the National Anthem. It was like scraping fingernails across a blackboard. Ugly! I think Charlie Sheen made the right decision when he divorced her.
I was exercising this morning when I noticed that Victoria's Secret store was advertising to stimulate Mother's Day sales. Now I ask you "what kid would buy their mother frilly under-garments for Mother's Day". I know I would not have considered buying Grandma Alice something dicey from Victoria's. What did I miss?
And then the New York Yankees with the highest prices in the world had heavy rain last night. A large number of fans hung around for several hours and were informed by "attendants" that the game was called. No game tonight. Some were just starting home when they heard that the game would be played inspite of the rain. The ticket policy is "if you leave the stadium, you can not get back in with the same ticket". So people who were told there was no game, could not get back in. Sorry, no bending the rules. Policy is policy. So the stadium which was 90% empty would not let loyal fans paying $200 for tickets back in. Is the world nuts?
The lesson Grasshoppers is that "common sense" seems to be a fleeting personal trait. It is the reason our world seems to a "bubble off center".
Love,
Dad