Pink bats for breast cancer research

In recognition of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, ballplayers today are swinging pink bats. So far (it's only the first inning), Kenny Lofton and Nomar Garciaparra have batted with them. (They didn't get hits, but Randy Winn just started the bottom of the first with a double, using a brown bat.)

Today, appropriately, Major League Baseball is sponsoring a fundraiser for breast cancer research. At http://www.mlb.com you can make a flat pledge or a pledge per strikeout during today's games. You can also buy neat stuff, like pink caps with the breast-cancer logo ribbon, with a portion of proceeds going to the foundation. (My pink Dodgers cap is on the way.)

Great way to honor our moms, no? :loveya:



Edit: Typo. (Sorry, mom.) :blush:

Where's all that Lounge Boob Love? :shrug:

Sorry, sweetie, but I don't think too many people are around right now.....

I click on the Breast Cancer site link every day......

I'm not particularly into buying stuff from them, though....

Sorry......:hug:

There's baseball on teevee, dammit! :grr:

The ACS 5-mile "Making Strides" event along Milwaukee's lakefront. The event raised about $300k for research - my team raised $8k and I personally raised about $1100 worth of that. I had the honor of walking alongside survivors and families of those who've been touched by cancer. It was truly inspiring and heartbreaking.

You're right; it is a great way to honor our mom's and all of the fabulous women in our lives. :loveya:

To finding a cure :toast:

:toast:

I just wish my cap would've gotten here by today. x(

:hi:

What ball game you watchin'?

And have you examined your breasts lately?




Nope, sorry... no punch line this time.

Baltimore is about to lose, of course. :eyes:



edit: Oh, that's it. They're done. I'm so proud.

















Do I need an excuse to examine my breasts?:D

:wtf:

It was the pink bats, wasn't it?




Do you need an excuse? Want one?

(You knew there'd eventually be a punch line, huh?)

The team that stayed in last place out of all of Major League Baseball all last season, and my Orioles lost to them. Embarrassing. :blush:




















I figured you needed a hand.

Once in awhile. I mean, they can't lose 162 games.



Can they? :shrug:









With the punch line?

Then Baltimore would win against them at least, if no one else.











Yep.

And stomped 'em yesterday. :shrug:









Okay. Just checkin'.

Well, alright. I'm just hard to please. :P

I've been watching this stupid thing all afternoon and it's been getting on my nerves.

And how do we end up 7 games behind the sox already? Sheesh.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/standings?type=reg&br=9&year=2005&column=gamesBehind&order=false&st=2

Or the teevee?

If the latter, I can understand.

(I've got two teevees and two radios goin', all on the same game.) :bounce:

How can you focus on all that noise?!

I simulcast whenever I can. You get better descriptions on radio, plus there's usually a slight delay. Today it's like four seconds, so I can be online, listen to the radio and still see all of a play.

It's on my little bitty B&W in here. If I want to see it in color and big, I go into the living room, where there's another radio goin'. And I can see that teevee if I lean forward just a bit.

Fandom. :D

Real Time Stat thing ESPN.com has. :P

I love baseball, though. :bounce:

Matheny (Giants) just threw out Ethier (Dodgers) stealing second for the third out of the seventh — which was key, because now the pitcher's spot will lead off the eighth for LA. And since O Perez just came in to relieve Seo, they might not want to bat for him, depending on how this inning goes.

(Dodgers are leading 2-1, which leaves the door open for all kinds of strategic possibilities.)

:D

I haven't examined my breasts in forever. :blush:

:shrug:

I'm like an AAAAAAAAAA cup. :blush:



Update: O Perez let the Giants tie it in the eighth, and they did indeed pinch-hit for him in the top of the ninth. Martinez, the pinch-hitter, walked, then Furcal singled him to second. Then Lofton bunted and Kline, the Giants' reliever, threw it into left field. Both runners score. 4-2.

Alou then took out Kline, who hollered "FUCK!" with the camera right on him as he walked to the dugout.

W00t!

x(

:P

while you guys cruised 11-1.

Not only did we lose, we took a 5-2 lead into the ninth and Baez, the fuckin' closer, horked up four runs. :grr:

It's too bad I wasn't watching. :grr:

The Dodgers lost a 5-2 lead? Sounds like something Balitmore would do. :rofl:

is probably already a C...

Maybe you mean -AAAAAAAAAA cup? :rofl:

I didn't think of it your way. :rofl:

Nah, that's us Canucks. :rofl:

Better then my Bawmer (Baltimore) accent, hon. We say things like "I'm goin dyn de ohyshun, howon" (that would be "I am going to the ocean, hon" :rofl: ).

:rofl:

I've never heard a Maryland accent before. Is it somewhat 'southern' sounding? Is there an actor, personality or tv show that's from/features Baltimore?

Our abooooot really isn't...we elongate certain vowels, but really it's more like 'abowt', whereas some areas in the US it's 'aboat' (to our ear).

As though we can't quite figure out our identity. I can't think of anyone famous who has it.

Actually... if you can ever get your hands on episodes of the show "Homicide: Life on the Street" you might catch the accent in there. None of the main characters will have it, but local guest actors might.

I thought an AA was smaller than an A, etc.




Forgive me. I'm a guy. :blush:

AA is double A, which is bigger than A. I think you'd say what u4ic said and make it a negative. :P

Because this is kinda like math, huh? x(




Man, I'm glad I don't have no boobs.

you just don't realize you're absorbing all that complex information. Noam Chomsky might say women are born with the innate ability to learn about bra sizes. :rofl:

Numbers and letters. :scared:




Besides... you can tell a guy any size and he'll believe it — especially if it's got a lotta 'D's in it. :eyes:

The height of my math ability is solving for "x" in 5x=30. :P






Typical.:eyes:

It doesn't equal anything! It's a freakin' letter! You make words out of it! Get over it, mathies!

:grr:




Sigh... I know. Stoopid testosterone.

:D


Hahahahaha!

You wouldn't need to know your bra size :rofl:





(cuz you wouldn't need one) ;-) The previous sentence was a public service announcement...for the guys.

And I still don't.

And I still don't.

So there. :P

Well, since they're interested only in (quote) finding a medical cure for breast cancer (unquote), I say let's blow them off the face of the planet. :eyes:

so I had a lot of contact with the various groups. I honestly never heard anything bad about this particular foundation. BUT I have to say that there is nothing more "political" than cancer research foundations- they are all competing for the same limited funds and even though you'd expect to find mutual support and cooperation, that's not always the case.

Cynical quote from one doctor I know: "We've reached the point where there are more people making a living from cancer than dying from it".

The same is true of any major disease, I suppose. Ever see "And The Band Played On"? Criminal.

But to dismiss an organization that does good, and a lot of it, because of its politics is to throw out the baby with the bath water.

If someone is working on a cure from a killer disease, I don't give a rat's ass what their politics are.

for rat's ass cancer? :shrug:

:spank: :spank: :spank: :rofl:

And yeah, the guys looked kinda funny holding those pink bats, but my Mariners hit the heck out of the ball using them today (beat the Angels 9-4).

And since my mom is a breast cancer survivor, whatever will bring awareness of the disease, plus more money to search for a cure, is damned fine with me!

He's using his regular Sam Bat. Baseball is about Barry Bonds, don't you know?

At least, in the Giants-Dodgers game.

I saw Lofton, Garciaparra and Seo, and one guy with the Giants. Durham, maybe.

Garciaparra used it only in his first trip, though, and he flied out. He's one of the most... I won't say "superstitious," but one of the most ritualistic players in the game, though, so I was surprised he used one at all.

Somethin' happened with Seo's bat, though. It was freakin' ORange. :rofl:

But the entire nation (well, the sports realm) is watching his every move at this moment. It would have been a great unselfish PR moment if he did use one. Baseball is about Barry Bonds - can't have no damn pink bat in the baseball hall of fame with his name on it!

I thought he would, if only for that reason alone. :shrug:

DESIGNATED HITTER?!

The neon green would be in honor of the former owner of the A's, whose name I can't recall (Charlie -- Feeney?). He did OUTRAGEOUS things with his team's unis and equipment.

And mo-fo MLB did an outrageous thing with baseball.

Designated hitter my ass.

ABOLISH IT NOW!

An uh, oh, yeah, uh... FIND THE CURE.

And I'm right there with ya, sista. :thumbsup:

I walked the 5K. The weather was as near perfect as possible, so they had a HUGE turnout! Last year we walked in the rain. :)

Can they bat with them EVERYDAY???

And baseball players are certainly superstitious enough. :D

the color that is. So sterotypically defined as a "girl" color.

i think it's icky the way we are supposed to constantly link "breast cancer," "pink," and "moms" in our mind

it takes a bit away from the special day to focus on disease

we had an ad one year in our newspaper, saying to take your mom to get a mammogram for mother's day

i mean, excuse me, crap, one day of the year and it has to be abt death and disease? let alone that whether we want the men to know it or not, getting a mammogram is damn painful and horrible and something i dread for weeks

what's wrong w. a nice champagne brunch for mother's day

and this is leaving aside that i've heard breast cancer survivors say they get NO help from the susan komen foundation and that apparently it's a way to channel all money their way into whatever research they may or may not think helpful while not actually providing anything but a brochure to women who are need in of treatment now

sorry to rain on the parade and all