Just wanted to drop folks a line. I got the word the other day that I have a family member that was given about a week to live, so if that happens, I might drop off the face of the earth for a bit. Just wanted to let you know in case I stop updating for awhile.
Update Wed 25th: My stepfather died last night after a bout with several illnesses that I won’t get into here. This will probably keep me offline through the weekend. Thanks for the notes of condolence I’ve gotten so far.
Update 2 Sat 28th: I’m taking off in the morning to attend funeral services back home. I return Wed evening, I’m not expecting to be updating while I’m away. Nice win last night – good to see Tex finally get a home run. And Sosa keeps hitting ’em.
Update 3 May 5th: I’m back home, but I’m so behind the eight ball from being offline for a week that I probably won’t be able to do any updates until Monday, at which point I’ll probably do one of my massive catch up updates.

Remember the old post game show guy Scott Franzke? When KRLD dropped the show for a year, we lost Franzke to the Phillies, who was first hired just to do the same thing there he did here. But he’s now in their broadcast team. Philadelphia does things differently than we do here. In Texas, we have dedicated radio & TV teams. Not so in Philly. After a couple of innings, they rotate between TV and radio, so you get to hear/see everyone in one game (I believe it’s everyone).
Anyway, there’s an article about Franzke and the rest of the Phillies broadcast team over here at this Philly sports blog. They seem to like him over there – which is good. I was rather annoyed when we let him go. I don’t think I’ve listened to his replacement here in Texas more than once or twice.

No, I don’t want some home made ice cream that Momma was shouting through the screen about from my “Good ol country home”.
I know that the “Bunt Cake” commercial is a joke.
Need some new ads, guys. Two three years with the same ad is pretty annoying, especially when you hear the same ones 3-4 times (or more) during one game.
Gaaaaahhhhh!
Edit: Gaaah! This commercial came on a second time within 30 minutes after I posted this!

Gotta love fifth place. Thing of beauty.

Saw an article come over my rss feed reader this morning from the website for Hank’s Homies, which isn’t updated very often, so the notice stuck out. Apparently the Homies are three years old now. The funny thing is I remember them in the upper deck around Section 340 or so before they moved to Section 5. I remember looking at ’em like “What’s with these guys”? They were just a row or two in front of me. I seem to recall getting annoyed when I couldn’t see because they held up their sign. :)

Anyway, they moved down to Section 5, and a legend was born. If you read their story, they recall again the story from May 2nd, 2004 when the entire stadium was wrapped up “SWEEP – SWEEP – SWEEP”. I agree with them, it was one of the best moments I’d heard in the park. To hear the entire stadium wrapped up chanting sweep was very cool. It wasn’t until later that I found out how cool it really was when I found out the Homies started it, and it was even mentioned on air in this audio clip by Eric Nadel and old radio guy Vince Cotroneo.

You can check out this quick video clip I took of them singing their chant when Hank was up the day I hung out with them on June 24, 2004. I couldn’t handle standing the entire game, I eventually ended up sitting down where my real seat was. But I had fun with ’em.