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Let’s go Devil Rays! Or, how the MLB lost its biggest fan.

I’m pleased to welcome our first guest-poster here at Butterscotch Sundae. Rockford has asked Chris to talk to you about baseball, and our favorite expat was kind enough to agree to do so.

Chris and Baby Z, doing what dads and their boys do.I was born and raised a Dodgers fan because my Dad was a Dodgers fan. I remained a Dodgers fan until I got to the age when you start to disagree with your Dad, and then I became a Braves fan. I loved the Braves when they sucked, in the ’80s when they wore powder blue and averaged 65 wins per season. When Dale “The Stormin’ Mormon” Murphy was their sole All-Star. There’s something pure about a team that bad, something simple and something loveable. The best thing was that every single game could be seen on “The Superstation” sandwiched between reruns of “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “Dallas.” That glorious 1995 series win over Cleveland made it all worthwhile, yet their hapless record in the post-season kept things simple.

The Braves didn’t make the playoffs this year. But it doesn’t matter because as the 2008 MLB playoffs get started up, I’m a die-hard Tampa Bay Devil Rays.* This isn’t because I grew up in Florida; Tampa Bay didn’t have a team until I had left the Sunshine State firmly in my rear view mirror. Nor is it some kind of bandwagon jumping. I’m pulling for the Devil Rays this year because they’ve got the second-lowest payroll in major league baseball.
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Friday links! The smack talk goes global

  • Rockford and our expat friend Chris have a long-standing rivalry rooted in football. Chris graduated from the University of Georgia, and Rockford lived in Alabama for the first three years of his life, which he seems to think obligates him to be a ‘Bama fan. This weekend, the teams meet up in Athens. Chris asked Rockford to commemorate the event with a little smack talk over on his Web site: Your Cadillac Has Got a Wheel in the Ditch at A Free Man.
  • There was a time when I would have voted for John McCain for president. Even though he seems to have changed quite a bit since then, I was withholding judgment on him this time around until he picked his VP. Because of the “one heartbeat away from the presidency” thing, the VP pick is always important, but it seemed a little more so with McCain because of his age. Have you seen anything from Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric? It continues to boggle my mind that the McCain camp thought this was a good idea.
  • Magnetic puzzles at Parent Hacks! Brilliant!
  • I tried to avoid Facebook for quite a long time, but once I joined up I found that, like Kate, “I’m not cool enough to be too cool for Facebook.” She expands on the social site’s allure in kate is watching you.
  • Another Kate is feeling a bit Overwhelmed right now. Her family left Galveston ahead of Hurricane Ike, and then she had a baby. They can’t go home yet because their house took in about 3 feet of water. Pop over there and lend some moral support.
  • And finally, I love these plates.