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UPDATE: I HAVE BEEN CHECKING MY EMAIL WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS. I GUESS IT HAS BEEN FIXED. IF IT IS STILL NOT WORKING FOR YOU, LOOK BELOW.

I just got hit with this bug using my Firefox to read my email. For anyone who is going ape-shit over this script, here are two things to avoid it:

1. You can use Internet Explorer. It is working for me, and from others I have read.

OR

2. Disable Javascript every time you read your emails. You can do this by going to Tools - Options - Content, and on the third row, it should say enable Javascript. Unclick the bastard. If this doesn’t work, unclick enable Java as well. I have Firefox 2 so I am unaware for those who have 3 or 1.

OR

3. Download this Firefox plugin ( a plugin, not a program ), called Adblock plus. From there, you can adblock an image, or adblock javascript. You would do that by going to adding js.worthathousandwords.com to the blocked sites.

I am as smart with computers as Manny is cordial with traveling secretaries ( well, he hasn’t met George Costanza yet:), so, if this helps anyone, that’ll be good. There is probably a better fix and/or explanation of what is going on; I will let you know on this post as soon as I do. I think it is a in-house problem with Yahoo!, so most likely this won’t last through the night. If anyone wants to add anything about what’s going on, pass it by me.

But I will come back with some good stuff in about a few days. I am sorry I have been putting my stuff on the back-burner. I have a lot to talk about, but very little time to sit in front of the computer. I’ll give away $10 to anyone who can tell me something that was different about Wakefield’s last start ( against Arizona ). Seriously, I will paypal it to you. If you can tell me something that was different, anything, I will give you $10.

He randomly posted on my site, so I checked out his. And its a funny site. They have a lot of Onion-ish articles that are decent parodies of sports stories. The Royals & Tony Pena story is by far one of the funniest stories I have read. Check them out.

Gritty & Clutch

Those Rafael Palmeiro commercials got to me! I am only a man…

This is one of those stories that is followed by a nail crashing into the coffin. The New York Daily News ( Awesome upstanding newspaper ) has released a report about Clemens using Viagra pills on the field as a performance enhancer on the field.

Talk about throwing a hard one right down the plate! And don’t get mad at that remark; You’re going to hear a bunch of these puns all day hearing these stories ( some over or under my pg-13 level). It has been reported that uses for Viagra that isn’t used for “hitting one out of the park” is to increase endurance levels, and as a catalyst to deliver oxygen to muscles faster.

This is not necessarily new news on the endurance factor of Viagra in exercise. Stanford University and Palo Alto Health Center scholars had found improvements in cyclist in high altitudes upon the uses of Sildenafil ( Viagra ). The drug, which I have come to know so well through Brett Favre throwing a football through the hoop, or the guy who whets the sexual desire of local housewives and coworkers, opens up blood vessels of certain tissues, which allow blood ( and therefore oxygen ) to pass through a lot easier. Even the University of Virginia’s health website talks about the benefits ( dated: 2002).

The article in the New York Daily news also reports that more players in baseball have used this component along with steroids, and it has been confirmed by the words of Victor Conte.

I am not in the loop so a lot of this is new to me. I guess at the end of the day, Clemens was trying to get the high hard one going throughout the game! Yes, I meant fastball! Fastball… doesn’t correlate, but in order to climb out of the gutter, I’ll just end the article here.

The Daily News referenced article ( from the Sporting News )

Leave a comment of a pun that would be funny. “Rocket-Man has a whole new meaning” has already been used

” Los Angeles is the least intimidating place in the league. The fans are usually late arrivals, and because of the 6pm start, they will arrive even later. Playing in LA is like playing at a jamboree.”

- Mark J Spears of the Boston Globe, talking about the intimidation factor of the Staples Center on the Dale & Holley show on WEEI.

I don’t want to duplicate the article here, but I wrote it on the Bleacher Report website . Great Website, BTW.

You just got Rondo’d! Imz on your post!

Sellin’ Ginos Hats!

I had just looked over my blog to check for spelling or looney banter errors ( if you have been reading my posts, you would understand by now I write more than I edit, and sometimes its pure gibberish. ). When I open my blog, there is this ad on it, and is f%$King huge! I’m not talking the small Google adsense that no one cares about, but this has to be the biggest text advertisement you will find.

I wasn’t bothered by it, because I did read a little bit ago about WordPress’s need to add funds because of low funding from donations. They got some raised eyebrows from their cloaking page incident a couple of years back, and I would think that they would become more transparent in these practices considering their ad-free mantra that they push out to all WordPress users.

But this advertising on my page was very surprising. I am not sure if they emailed people, or how much they publicized the fact, but when I looked into it ( with my mutant powers of ultra-Google searching skills; if you hang around me, you’ll always be feelin’ lucky! ), I found this post that Matt Mullenweg posted to talk about it ( it is dated eight months ago, sorry for being a late party-crasher on this one.). He mentions that they come on pretty rarely ( which is true since I have only seen two since this article has been posted ). But he also mentions that people will be able to pay to be able to post ad content on their pages.

There isn’t a lot of people against it, but at the same time, I had to browse through a lot of content to find out that they were doing this. I am not in the inner circle of the blogging world, so these types of situations, although trivial to my love to write about stuff, usually go over my head.

My only concern is that the only ads I have seen are Google Adsense selling Gino Hats. When you click onto the site, it is a hat that is being sold in dedication to a fan named Gino. Looking for more information ( since I have no fucking clue why this is popular in Boston, and I am from the Bean ), I find an article that mentions he is someone who danced in an American Bandstand show and the Celtics use his dances as a hype video during their games the last few years.

There was a search for this guy after the Wall Street Journal wanted to add to the Gino madness story, and they found out this guy died many years ago in his early 30’s.

Well, the story turns full circle as now the Gino madness can be sold as a hat, from which all the proceeds will go to the Boys & Girls Club in the Boston area. Since it seems like a sincere event, I’ll let it slide.  I think I would still be wary on what ads they would show on my page and how much would it get in the way of my content ( I am no saint since I’ll get someone to sponsor a post from time-to-time. ). But at the same time, WordPress needs to make some money, and I am using their stuff for free. I can’t complain, but at least I’m aware of what’s going on. I’m hoping to pass it along to anyone who thinks they’ve been seeing the same ghosts while browsing the blogs on the WordPress site.