Firewalled!

Goodness gracious! I'm firewalled at a major Wall Street firm! YES!!! The revolution continues!!!!

Or, maybe it was just blogger.com that got firewalled....hmmm...well - I vote for ME being the reason!

Anyway, angry rant of the day is "middle aged autograph seeker"...

Let me explain....I can't get enough of the desert, so I drag the boys to Peoria, AZ. for some Cactus League action...we're running late for the Padres/A's game on Saturday, but I promised the boys we'd try to meet a couple players, so we walk the long way to the gate, past the batting cages, when we see Brian Giles. Woo hoo - I'm gonna be parent of the year if I can get him to sign a ball for them. So we wait for 10 minutes, he wraps up BP, and on his way out some 300 lb slob with a bag of baseball bats - no fewer than 15-20 of them - almost assaults Giles, demanding he sign as many as possible. After 2 of them, Giles says enough and tries to cut out, but not before I intercept him for the kids. He's very cool, comes over with Wally Joyner (their hitting coach), sign my kids baseballs, and go about their merry way on the golf cart. We go on to the game, when I start thinking...

"Man...what possesses a sweaty 50+ year old 300-lb+ man to act all ghey about getting autographs from a guy on a bat from a bag of bats that must weigh 100 lbs.?"

Hmmm...*I* had an excuse for chasing down autographs...as for him, I think George Carlin said it best: "When you're a boy, you collect baseball cards...but if you're a man, they're just pictures of other men..."

You get the idea....