"Shirts And Skins"

WELCOME TO FOREGO'S NUTS

"I'm not interested in sports" has become too frequent a refrain around Kelso's Nuts. As the mighty Nuts Army aims please all, henceforth all discussion of sports, gambling, and finance will be the province of Kelso's younger twin brother, Forego, leaving Kelso to continue to offer the usual windy crap opinions on current events, culture, international affairs and that sort of stuff. The pole-star of the Nuts Empire is that everything is or should be fungible -- meaning every good, service, or future event can be quantified and priced in turn meaning that there is theoretically some number of grosses of Heinz 57 Ketchup that you would accept in exchange for your right to sleep with the partner of your dreams or that you would trade for your vote for Barack Obama in your local Democratic primary (many grosses, one teaspoon, respectively for Forego) -- there will of course be crossover. An example would be the large bet on Gore to win the presidency that was placed in Europe this spring.

In the main, however, we'll keep the sports/finance/quant stuff in County Forego and the political/cultural in County Kelso.

And so, we bring Kelso's All-Star game musings over to County Forego, and continue to ponder the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

As usual we have a cooling off period with sports and was anyone watching the same MLB All-Star Game Kelso was? Did it not seem like Tony LaRussa was trying his damnedest to lose that game? OK, Peavy throws 5 ground balls (one single, one error) in the first inning and is yanked. Leyland leaves Haren in for two even though he's up in the zone with everything and gives up an early run. Just that one extra inning pitched by Haren ultimately gave Leyland the choice of Putz, K-Rod or Jenks to close plus use Okajima to knock out any lefty hitter LaRussa might have had in his pocket. Speaking of left-handed pitchers, why did LaRussa only carry one -- Wagner? Why did Sanchez and Hardy bat against right-handed pitchers yet Albert fucking Pujols sat on bench? This must be the result of some intra-Cardinal feud between LaRussa and Pujols much like the genuis's feud with Rolen in last year's post-season. And with the National League leading by a run going in to the 5th inning what was Ken Griffey, Jr., the worst defensive regular in MLB still in the outfield -- a huge outfield? Did anyone see him running with iron anklets after Ichiro's I-T-P HR? Any other NL outfield holds that to a stand-up double or a triple to be generous. Beltran could have held it to a single. Guess LaRussa wants Cleveland to beat the NL WS team because without Carpenter and with Kip Wells getting the ball every 5th day the Redbirds will struggle to beat Cincinnati for last.

It's probably better just to give the links, but there's something kind of similar about these teams.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/ATL/1990.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/TBD/2007.shtml

And if you can figure it out, and you have one hair on your ass, you might be able to buy your kid a year in college.

Oh Jeez, we did skins, but forgot shirts. No end to Iraq or Afghan Wars. Iran toss-up. Venezuela dark-horse. So, we're are still long oil for our Nuts and are trying madly to get short dollars cheaply.

Good Luck From Forego, a poor skin-head without a dollar