Vinny

Catch the live, acoustic version of this if you can (amazon link), the good one with the Casablanca intro (sigh).

QOTD

"She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain"
- Al Stewart, "Year of the Cat"

1. Vinny the baby puffin

Great, cute pics and video of Vinny the baby puffin:

nationalaquarium.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/puffin-chicks-hatched-in-sea-cliffs-exhibit/

Ty and I are going to visit Vinny over at Baltimore's National Aquarium in August. Excellent!

2. Sooby

In case of zombie attack: baseball bat or Sooby?

Subaru official zombie apocalypse vehicle

I thought for sure he was going to hop in that Sooby and run over some zombies. Oh well.

3. $15,000,000,000,000

This is a fun visualization of what the $15T of US debt looks like:

www.wtfnoway.com

Just for fun.

4. Rickie

I'm sitting on a barstool last night, and there goes Rickie Weeks, my guy, being dragged off the field. Sprained ankle. DL. 3-6 weeks. Dop.

Rickie's incredible 4 month run as 2B for the Naperville Oriole:

• 71 run, 2nd most for all 2B (I Kinsler 72)
• 19 dinger, most for all 2B
• 199 TB, 2nd most for 2B (M Young 201)
• Rickie is ranked the #40 player overall in Yahoo
• All that for 7th round $$$ in our draft. Huzzah!

I also got incredibly lucky to have earlier picked up Michael Cuddyer off the scrap heap. I snagged Cuddyer because he was eligible at multiple positions (1B, 2B, 3B, OF) and playing OK. I didn't expect him to be an All-Star and rank #53 overall in Yahoo-land
go oriole... yow, bill