Reason #453243 I'm glad to live in Nashville..

Parking Rules Defied in South Boston
Parking, snow..
This story has all the elements that make me glad I live here in Nashville now

NewsFlash! Men put off Christmas Shopping!

Is this really news to anyone?

Merry Christmas!

Click here for a very special Christmas greeting, made especially for you...

Damn you, J.J. Abrams...

Damn you to Hell!

5 Golden Tuques!

Snow Drift!

Caught this note from our local newspaper tonight:

A half-inch of snow is expected to accumulate in and around Nashville, Boyd said.

Whoop!! Whoop!! Battlestations!! we may have a half inch of snow coming in tomorrow night! You think I'm joking? Read on:

Tennessee Department of Transportation and Metro Public Works crews are standing ready to spread salt and possibly brine on area roadways.

"Remember the Mitchell Report"

I can't put my finger on it, but something in all the coverage the last two days of the release of the Mitchell Report is missing. There's just something not there.
Maybe this article by Howard Bryant on ESPN.com gets at it..

By not addressing the statistics produced during more than a decade of drug use, Mitchell left his report open to the notion that the sensation produced by the names in the report is more important than the long-term implications of how this period in history is interpreted.

I've not really composed my thoughts on this coherently.. and I've only scratched the surface on all the material that's been produced in the wake of the report..

But here, in very brief, are my basic reservations:
1) Bryant uses the phrase more than a decade of drug use... Does everyone think the 'doping' in baseball started only in 1997 or so? Does no one remember how people were talking about Jose Canseco as early as 1987? Remember the Bash Brothers? We all knew what was happening in that A's clubhouse. Maybe it goes back even farther than that year, but I can't recall anyone with that much muscle mass in baseball prior to that time. This has been in baseball, and noticeably so, for two solid decades. Period.

2) so much focus on the Yankees and the Championships. Are they tainted? Undeniably. More tainted than EVERY RECORD BROKEN SINCE 1987? No way. Not even close.

No Geoff, here's to you...

Spent a little time tonight watching Nashville's own Geoff Smith do a live Christmas 'party', courtesy of Cali Lewis's GeekBriefTV.com uStream feed..
Good times.. a few songs.. a few toasts... and some "Friends in Low Places..."
Nice work, Geoff. We're looking forward to making it out some night to Geoff's bar here in town, The Big Bang.