Atlanta Braves Trade for Gold Glove 1B Derrek Lee

The Atlanta Braves have made 3 key trades this year in the 2010 Major League Baseball Season. The team’s MVP last year was shortstop Yunel Escobar. After a slow start to the season this year and getting in the doghouse of manage Bobby Cox, the tensions grew high inside the Braves locker room. Players like Tommy Hanson and Troy Glaus publicly made scenes on the baseball diamond; when they felt Yunel Escobar wasn’t focusing enough. What has become funny is that Troy Glaus got sent to the minors recently to see if he can play third base again. Glaus is an automatic out in the line up and commits way too many errors on routine plays at first base. So basically his skills are not MLB level anymore, so the Braves traded for first basemen Derrek Lee from the Chicago Cubs. For Tommy Hanson’s uncalled stare down, toward the Braves former shortstop Yunel Escobar, for a dropped fly ball,  he can’t buy a win. He continues to rack up loses or no decisions and isn’t even an average pitcher coming down the stretch. Both Tommy Hanson and Troy Glaus are facing the Yunel Escobar curse! This is a real curse and you can just ask Glaus and Hanson if they believe it exists. They asked for it and now they are both getting exactly what they deserve. You have to stick up for your players in the club house and these two failed to do it. So they are dealing with the Yunel Escobar curse.

Now turn to the Braves new shortstop Alex Gonzalez. Who is making a lot of fans in Braves Country miss their beloved SS Yunel Escobar. Gonzalez has been a direct cause for 2 Braves loses this year. He has done it with his glove too and he has without a doubt cost the Braves 2 wins and probably could make a case he has cause the Braves team 6 to 8 loses already. Alex Gonzalez is not producing at the plate, making errors at short stop, running into his left fielder and causing him pain in a collision, and just a lot of other silly and dumb plays. No one on the airwaves is calling the Gonzalez trade a bad move (yet), but clearly he doesn’t stack up to Yunel Escobar.

Each error Escobar committed in his last few weeks for the Braves team got hightlighted way too much. Joe Simpson has been the one spear-heading this campaign against Yunel Escobar. Now after bragging so much on Alex Gonzalez’s  glove work in practice and Simpson even going so far to say “I could just watch him all day long in practice at how quick his glove and hands are at shortstop“; he’s put his own self in a bad situation. His beliefs in how he is a better shortstop than Yunel Escobar couldn’t be further from the truth. Remember fans, the Atlanta Braves were cruising in the NL East Race; when the Escobar/Gonzalez trade went down. Escobar was helping the team to win with his glove and even the times Glaus and Hanson highlighted Escobar’s errors, they were not ones that lead to the team losing. Like Alex Gonzalez has already did 2 times and his errors resulted in direct loses for the team.

The Atlanta Braves did very little in their attempts to win a 15th straight N.L. East Pennant a few years back. They was unable to put any trades or jockey any guys around that year, so the Braves went out losers that year without even giving it their best try. Not the case this year, after the first place Braves traded away the team’s 2009 MVP in Yunel Escobar. The Braves front office knew they made a mistake for trading Yunel Escobar to the Toronto Blue Jays. So in order to cover up their mistake, they have made 2 more other trades. They are now sacrificing the future and giving away our minor league talent, for players like Rick Ankiel, Kyle Farnsworth, and now Derreck Lee. This first place team made a lot of changes and they didn’t even need to. Now our new GM has created a poor team in the ATL and over half of our regular starters wasn’t even with us last year or a true farm product of the Atlanta Braves minor league system. Check out this long list of people we are counting on to win games for us in the last 5 weeks of the season and just how long they been with the team:

*Eric Hinske

*Troy Glaus

*Derreck Lee

*Melky Cabrera

*Rick Ankiel

*Jason Heyward

*Alex Gonzalez

*Diory Hernandez

These players with 2 key rookie pitchers in Jonny Venters and Mike Minor; who are both expected to start games (Minor) for us now or pitch in critical innings late in the game (Venters). Bobby Cox is taking this cast of new comers and trying to mke them mesh; while he continues to bat our line-up out of order. Those line-up cards he submits before games need to be torn up and burned for good measure. Just by fixing the batting order, this team could have kept all their original players from the start of the season and would have 8 to 12 more wins already under their belt.

Key points Bobby Cox must be willing to do, if he expects to break the Yunel Escobar Curse and manage a NL Pennant East Title or wildcard birth in the 2010 baseball post-season.

1. Bat Matt Diaz 4th in every game for the rest of the year. He is the most “Barry Bonds” type of player we got, in terms of clutch hitting and just overall hard hits; where the ball finds the sweet part on his bat the most often.

2. All Star MVP Catcher Brian McCann must be guaranteed an at-bat in the first inning of every game. He’s a clutch hitter and batting him 5th is too far back. Let him hit 3rd the rest of the year.

3. Get your rookie right fielder Jason Heyward out of those top 3 spots. He’s just turned 21 years old and this pennant race is way too much pressure for the kid. Move him down.

4. Martin Prado is almost Superman, but struggles in clutch situations. He could help the team in the 2nd hole.

5. If your starting pitcher is leading off an inning in the 5th inning or later in a game that you are losing on the scoreboard; YOU MUST PINCH HIT! Letting Tommy Hanson lead off the 5th inning against the Cubs; while trailing by 5 runs is NOT acceptable. Especially in a tight pennant race in a game that is in the final 6 weeks of the season!

6. Must understand now, that there is no more tomorrows. Quit saving players (hitters and pitchers) for later in the game. It doesn’t get any later than this Bobby Cox. Our backs are against the wall and now we must play every game and every inning like it’s our last. Letting Eric Hinske pinch hit for Matt Diaz is a mistake in general, but doing this move with Brian McCann on your bench is not a smart decision! Yes B. Mac did get to swing in that 9th inning against the Cubs, but if Alez Gonzalez would have grounded into a double play, you would have lost a game, where you selected Eric Hinske over Brian McCann. That was a terrible decision to let Hinske bat and someone should have called you out for that one!

Bobby Cox has been slow to get Martin Prado and Omar Infante at-bats or high places in the batting order over the last couple of seasons. It has taken both of these guys way too long to get up in the proper places. If Chipper is still playing; then Infante is probably still riding the bench. You must bat these guys 1 and 2 in the batting order each game. The Braves top 6 spots in the line-up must remain the same from here on out!

Braves Final Batting Order for Post-Season Push 2010

1. Omar Infante

2. Martin Prado

3. Brian McCann

4. Matt Diaz

5. Derreck Lee / Jason Heyward (platoon situation based on starting pitcher being a Righty or Lefty)

6. Jason Heyward / Derreck Lee (platoon situation)

If Bobby Cox can not see this obvious 6 player batting order for his team right now. He deserves to be at home on the couch watching October baseball. No room for errors now, win or go home Braves Team!!!

One of the greatest and best inventions ever for an Online Marketer, is the creation of a rotator link. These are very handy to have around, if you have multiple websites to promote online. A rotator link combines several websites together, so one link will show a bunch of different websites. If you use traffic exchanges, you could add 1 rotator link on your account to promote several different websites you would like to draw more attention to. There are some traffic exchanges that will automatically create a free rotator link for you, once you begin to add your websites with them. Fastlane Traffic and Help Hits are two examples of a TE that will offer you a free rotator, after you have added your websites to their traffic exchange.  

Our Google Ranked Us surfing team has a team effort on one of the hottest matrix systems online today. I have taken each one of our referral links from the matrix program we belong to and have added it to my Fastlane Traffic rotator. Now each member on our team can show just 1 link and it will display all of our referral links randomly for the 4×1 Fortune program. This is a great way to earn easy money online and it only costs $11 to join. This is a one time payment and then you can begin showing your referral page and promoting this program. Or do like I have done and join Fastlane Traffic, so you can begin to create your own team of promoters online. This is a great and fun way to advertise online. It will keep everyone on the team interested, as each person will be promoting the same referral link. Here is an example of my Fastlane Traffic free rotator link: http://fastlanetraffic.com/rotate.php?id=7478 

You can click that link and see one of our member’s referral pages for the Fortune program. If you click it a 2nd time, you would more than likely see a new member’s referral page. The rotator links just show a variety of websites and it does it randomly, so there is no way to control how many times a certain page will be seen in each rotator link. For the most part, over a long period of time, they all get shown about the same amount.

Another example of how to use a rotator link for you’re own benefit, is to add all of your referral pages to the rotator link. If you join Help Hits, you can add up to 5 websites on your account as a free member. Once you have your websites added and verified, you can then show your Help Hits free rotator link, so it will show up to 5 different websites you have an interest of promoting online. Here is an example of my rotator link at Help Hits: http://www.helphits.com/rotator/62734

You can click my Help Hits link above and see one of the websites I promote online. If you clicked it a 2nd time, you would more than likely see a different website I was promoting online. On my Help Hits rotator link, I have 5 different websites I am promoting. So this makes it very easy for me to add it to a traffic exchange and can promote 5 different websites with only one link.

If you have more than 5 websites to promote, I suggest getting the Fastlane Traffic rotator link. You will have the ability to add more than just 5 websites there and will make it much easier on those people that have more than 5 websites to advertise on the Net. I like these two rotator links, because they’re both clean rotators. Some websites give you a rotator link, but it will come with banners or something that blocks a portion of your page. I prefer to have a rotator that will show 100% of the website I am promoting. The rotator links provided by Help Hits and Fastlane Traffic are both clean and others won’t even know you’re showing them a website via a rotator link. If you never tried to use a rotator before, you must give this a try. It’s an easy way to show multiple sites and it only takes one rotator link to achieve this easy and effective way to market online.

Go get your own rotator link and have some fun with it! It makes life on the Internet so much easier for all of us that like to promote and market various things online. I love joining new affiliate programs and seeing if I can get a referral for it. For those that like to promote more than one affiliate link, you will want to use a rotator, so you can give equal attention to your most rewarding and profitable online programs you belong to. Good luck and don’t forget to have fun!!!

If you don’t know what I could possibly be talking about with corn and worms; then you probably never been fishing before. I like to do all sorts of fishing and I will do whatever it takes to catch a fish. One of the best ways to teach children to fish and get them into the sport of fishing, is to take them bream fishing. This is perfect for the impatient fishermen who must have a bite every minute or they don’t think the fish are biting.

Bream are a small fish and they are easy to find. Just about any lake or river, you can find schools of small bream hugging the shorelines. You don’t have to cast out to catch them. Just release about a fishing rod’s length of line out and bait your small hook with corn or worms and you can catch bream all day long. Just toss the line out by hand, keep your hands on the pole, because it won’t take these little fish long to bite. In fact, if you haven’t gotten a bite in less than 1 minute, you may want to check your hook to see if any bait is still left on it. If this isn’t the problem, then go find a new place to bream fish.

I always like to go bream fishing one time a year. The first fishing trip of the year is perfect for bream fishing. It gives fishermen a chance to develop their fish-catching skills for the upcoming fishing season. You get a chance to anticipate the bite and get to jerk your rod, while you try to hook these fish with very small mouths. A small hook is a must for bream fishing. They will have a hard time getting their lips around the larger hooks and you will just be feeding them. You can catch a lot more bream, by using the smallest hooks you have in your tackle box. Be sure to carry plenty of bait, if you plan to fish for any length of time. You can go through a whole tub of worms or can of corn in 1 hour or less; when you go bream fishing. I have been digging up worms around the house now and putting them in a 5 gallon bucket. So when I get ready to go bream fishing, I will have my worms ready to go.

Most bream are too small to keep. If you can find some that are bigger enough to string, you will want to take them home and clean them. Bream is one of the best tasting fish our fresh waters in North America offer. I love to eat bream and they are even more fun to catch. If you have a small child you would like to take fishing this year, get them set up with a bream gear (corn and earthworms). Buying the worms in the store is pretty expensive, considering how fast the bream will eat your store-bought worms. You can do yourself a favor, if you will start digging your worms now and giving them a chance to multiply, before you go fishing again. Creating a worm bed is pretty simple. I just use a 5 gallon bucket and feed them the table scraps. You can put just about anything in your worm bucket or worm bed; when it comes to food. Avoid the meats and cheeses and your worms will grow really fast and multiply faster than rabbits. A little cornmeal in the bucket every now and then is a great food source for your worms. Don’t forget to add a little water (don’t drown them), so your soil stays good and moist for the worms to thrive in.

A summer camp for softball is a great way to improve your kids skills. These camps can be a big help with hitting and defense. A special camp in Bridgewater, New Jersey is ready to help your child move to the next level in softball. Their softball academy has professional and collegiate softball players on hand to help pass along the skills they learned; while playing softball over the years. Camps like these have proven great results for the players that take advantage of them. Your child’s next season or next team they play for, will most likely see a big difference in their play and skill level.

The boys & girls who play little league baseball can also attend the academy in Bridgewater, NJ for their summer camp on baseball drills. Not only are these camps fun for the kids, they also provide all the training necessary to help your little slugger get on base more and to stop more balls hit their way. As your little athletes get better in baseball, they will learn to love the sport even more; once they’re performing on a level as high or better than the rest of their teammates and opponents. These baseball camps are nothing new, but they are a lot more advanced than when I was playing little league baseball. The coaches and instructors have a lot more to offer these young folks and the summer camp in New Jersey for baseball, is one of the summer camps that proves this.

If your daughter is serious about softball or you have a son dedicated to baseball; joining one of these summer camps for softball or baseball is a great way to go. Especially for the parents who may lack the time to help their kids improve on their ball skills. The parents that do have the time, may not offer the best advice or drills to help their young ball players improve in their development. The softball and baseball coaching drills can’t be substituted, for the summer camps that do invite pro and college athletes in to help. This is exactly the high quality of coaching and training that takes place in Bridgewater, New Jersey for the summer camps they offer each year.

It’s not a man’s world anymore. More and more women are doing things today, that they never did in the past. One good example of this, is the way women are searching for a good muscle builder product or exercise routine to give them more muscles or muscle tone. Both men and women want to look better and feel better and a lot believe bigger muscles is the answer. It’s still the men that want to try the hardest and will spend more of their time building bigger muscles. A sharp increase in recent years has women working out at the gyms too and for one main purpose. To build bigger muscles! Not all women want to be body builders, but they do want to increase the muscle tone on their body. They will work out just as hard as the guys do and they will go out shopping for muscle builder products; which offer extra help with building bigger muscles.

Maybe for the men in the gyms that are trying to build bigger muscles, it is still their world. I just think women have taken a bigger piece of the pie and they seek to build big musles too. I guess if the men want to stay in the lead, they will need to work out a little harder. I don’t think we have seen the last woman to enter a man’s body building gym, in the hopes she will obtain bigger muscle mass too.

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No dispute with the South in the top 2 positions of the college football rankings. Florida and Alabama are great choices for the top 2 spots in the country and they stand alone in college football. The Texas Longhorns is a weak choice at 3 with their light schedule and unimpressive win margins against weaker teams. They are several other undefeated teams in the top 10 in college football that don’t have any real competition. It seems the polls don’t mind them jumping good 1 loss teams, as long as that one loss team isn’t the USC Trojans. It gets old every year seeing USC ranking way too high in the polls. They play in a weak Pac 10 and still can’t manage to win all of their games. I’m not going to bother with the small schools sporting perfect records. This is about the USC football program versing the southern teams in college football and how the money in Southern California is wrecking the landscape of college football.

You can focus on 3 one loss teams to see just how much disrespect there is for the South in college football. The LSU Tigers and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets both should be ranked above the USC Trojans. All 3 teams have one loss. The Tigers from Louisiana got beat by the number 1 team in the country (Florida) and it’s their only loss on the season. The GT Yellow Jackets loss to a undefeated Miami Hurricane team at the time; which after this past weekend, they got their 2nd loss of the season with a overtime loss against Clemson. Who did USC lose to? They got beat by a Washington Huskies team that didn’t even win a football game last year. Washington has manage to win 3 games this year, but have still lost 5 football games this year. How does opponents with zero and two losses rank higher than one with 5 losses?  There is no way in the world why USC should be ranked 5th in the BCS and ranked 4th in the other two polls! Knock, knock, is there anyone home? How do you have a team ranked 5th, 4th, and 4th in the country; when they got beat by a team that didn’t win 1 single football game last year and have 5 losses this year?

Last week USC was ranked 7th in the BCS Standings. This week they move up two spots in the rankings with a 6 point win at home over an unranked Oregon State team. Georgia Tech managed to move up 1 spot (12th to 11th) with a road victory over Virginia where they beat them by 25 points and held Virginia’s offense to only 9 points; while Oregon State posted 36 points against the 5th ranked USC Trojans! No one lost in front of USC’s position in the rankings; while Georgia Tech had Miami lose in front of them. A team that loses is an automatic bid for a drop in the polls, so Georgia Tech only got the 1 spot that was handed to them by a Miami loss. USC got handed 2 spots and no teams lost, they played at home, and barely won the game! In a weekend that favored Georgia Tech in any way you choose to look at it (home or away; margin of victory, etc..), the Yellow Jackets clearly deserved more support in a move up, but USC still beat them in the bias ranking game by moving up 2 spots to Georgia Tech’s 1 spot.

Oh don’t forget about the LSU Tigers either! They did have a home game like USC did this past weekend, but they beat the Auburn Tigers by 21 points and only allowed Auburn to score 10 points for the game. For their reward of beating Auburn they got nothing in the BCS Rankings! The BCS Rankings just awarded USC two spots in their precious poll for winning a home game by 6 points against an unranked Pac 10 Team. While Georgia Tech and Auburn combined moved up 1 spot with both of their opponents combined putting up 19 points; versing the 36 points allowed by the over ranked USC defense. It wouldn’t even be a fair match up to put this Southern California team against LSU or Georgia Tech. This would be an easy 2 touchdown win for the Tigers or Yellow Jackets and they could even play the game at the Coliseum. I’m being very kind to say “2 touchdown”, I really don’t think it would even be that close.

If you’re an LSU Tigers fan, player, or coach and you’re mad with the BCS Rankings; then you should be! Not at the small schools that have perfect records to this point. Your anger should be directed at the USC Trojans for having the same record as you, but your loss was to a 0 loss team and USC was to a 5 loss team and the same team that beat USC this year, is the same team you beat on the road this year in Washington. Only way for USC to be ranked higher than LSU right now would have to do with corruption and the fact USC has the richest college program in the country. USC is under investigations by the NCAA and suspensions will be coming; due to the fact they paid Reggie Bush’s family money. Future recruits coming out of high school should avoid USC; since the chances of a bowl game suspension is very possible in Southern California.

The True Top 10 Rankings of College Football (Week 9)

1. Florida

2. Alabama

3. Texas

4. LSU

5. Georgia Tech

6. Cincinnati

7. TCU

8. Iowa

9. Boise State

10. Virginia Tech

Sorry Oregon, your 1 loss was to Boise State and your home game against Purdue you only won by 2 points and Purdue manage to beat the over ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. Only reason you have a top 10 ranking in the BCS is because USC needs this to help them. Pac 10 teams are over ranked in general with Notre Dame and Ohio State over ranked based on popularity and opponents of the USC Trojans.

The 2009 U.S. Open was off and running and the ball was being struck with big time force from the ladies and the guys too! It’s been a well-played tournament to this point, but everyone’s new favorite tennis star has finally lost up in New York.

Her name is Melanie Oudin and this little girl from the Peach State of Georgia won the hearts of many tennis fans all across the country. It was cool to see big time celebrities making comments about this 17 year old rising tennis star that lives just north of Atlanta, Georgia. Mel was simply fantastic on the court this year in the U.S. Open and she had a lot of support up in the Big Apple of New York. It’s not often when Georgia Peaches and Big NY Apples mix well together, but it did in this case. Melanie wasn’t just representing her city of Marietta, or the tennis club in Norcross, Georgia, but she represented so much more. The whole USA was behind this teenage superstar and it was a lot of fun to watch her play on the courts in New York. If you think a big buzz has been going around the country about Oudin’s tennis game; you should see the folks in Georgia. The tennis fans and even people that are not usually watching tennis was watching Mel hit that ball.

It was sad to see it all come to an end and it was 9th Seed Caroline Wozniacki that figured out the magical formula to beating this young star from Georgia. Women’s tennis looks to have a very bright future, because Wozniacki is only 19 years old! From what I am hearing, the tennis fans in Georgia are rooting for Caroline now and we do hope she wins the U.S. Open this year. She was very nice taking a backseat to an ESPN interview that started with Melanie Oudin first. They said they normally don’t interview the loser first, but made an exception in this case. When Caroline Wozniacki finally got her chance to speak; she actually apologized for beating Melanie, because she knew everyone was rooting for her to win. That comment went a long ways here in Georgia and she deserves to move on in the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament.

To recap Melanie’s most impressive victories, check this list of women she beat in this year’s US Open.

* 29 Maria Sharapova

* 13 Nadia Petrovia

* 4 Elena Dementieva

That’s a nice list considering that Melanie Oudin is not even a top 50 player and she beat 3 Russians that were ranked 29th or better! If you’re still fascinated with this young tennis star; then you can catch Melanie on the Ellen DeGeneres Talk Show and the Tonight Show on Monday (Sept. 14th). And it appears the main thing she wants is a Rolex Watch and she will buy this with the $175,000 purse she is taking back to the South.

A mesothelioma prognosis can be devastating to the person that has to hear this from their own personal doctor or a medical physician. Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that most people have contracted by having exposure to asbestos products that could have been present in factories or in shipyards they use to work in. This type of cancer can start in the lungs and be a life-long battle for those that have to deal with it. It can also end a person’s life if not treated properly or if actions are not taken immediately after learning one has this cancer called mesothelioma.

If you or someone that you know has mesothelioma your life or theirs doesn’t have to end there. There is a lot better medical treatments today for this cancer than we have had in previous years. As the medical community continues to fight against this cancer, people can join the fight and help too. Spreading the word about mesothelioma and pleural mesothelioma is something all of us can do. Supporting those that have mesothelioma is another step we can take in trying to win this battle against cancer. A positive attitude and support from friends and family can go a long ways in a recovery process. This is true in many severe health cases or diseases that have crippled a person’s typical lifestyle.

Educating ourselves about the dangers of asbestos is a good starting point. We can prevent many of these new mesothelioma cases by being aware of the dangers asbestos presents to our health. Those that have had long-term exposure to asbestos are more at risk than those that have just had brief contacts with this building material. Construction workers are finding substitutes and other ways to build our homes and factories without the use of asbestos and products that contain significant amounts of this material. Preventing the problem is the best cure for now, but it is different for those people that are suffering from this cancer. Learning to survive with mesothelioma isn’t an easy task but will be one that many Americans and people living in other countries will have to deal with. There are people, organizations, and online websites that are available to those with mesothelioma. Reach out and find that help and support group and you may even learn that you need a mesothelioma attorney or lawyer; to help you recover some of the things that have been lost due to mesothelioma.

The things you hear about on the news these days really do make you shake your head and wonder who is in charge. This is so true when it comes to America’s legal system and the differences you can find in each U.S. State. You can just look at a couple of NFL players to see how bad things have gotten in our society.

I will start with Plaxico Burress from the New York Giants. He is currently in the NFL headlines and his story is making news all over the country. His crime on America may sound a bit serious, but actually the only person that got hurt was him. He took a hand gun into a nightclub in New York City and the gun accidentally went off. Who knows if he pulled the gun out or not. Who knows what his intentions were that night, when he decided to carry a gun into a NYC nightclub. He is a very rich and famous man and perhaps he had the gun for protection? That makes sense, right? Well sometime during his visit that gun did discharge and he shot himself in the leg. This was very dangerous and someone could have been seriously hurt. It turns out that he was the only one that got hurt and now he has been handed his sentence for the crimes he committed that night. He got 2 years in prison and this won’t be easy for someone that has gotten everything they ever wanted in life (for the most part). A 2 year sentence may not seem like that big of a deal and perhaps you think this sentence does justify his crime.

Now let’s go south to the sunshine state in Florida and see what another NFL player did and what his crime and punishment was. Another NFL wide receiver found his self on the wrong side of the law in Florida and this was because he hit a man with his car. This man died from his injuries that NFL wide receiver Donte Stallworth caused. It really doesn’t stop here and it does get worse. The reason Mr. Stallworth ran over this man in Florida was because he was drunk behind the wheel. His drunk driving led to the death of another human being and I’m sure Stallworth wishes he could have that night to do over again. Regardless of how bad he feels, he still ended the life for another innocent citizen that didn’t deserve to die. What did the justice system do for justice in this case? They gave Donte Stallworth a 30 day sentence in jail; which he only served 23 days of that sentence and now he is a free man. Can you believe that? I can’t believe how justice didn’t get served in Florida and with all due respect to Donte Stallworth, he really should still be sitting in jail for his actions of drinking and driving.

There really is no comparison to Plaxico Burress and Donte Stallworth’s crimes, because Stallworth wins this contest easy. The sad part is how Burress will have to be locked up for 2 years while he only hurt his self and Donte not only hurt someone else, but he killed them! The NFL must take up the gap here and hand down a far more serious punishment against Donte Stallworth. The NFL has announced that he is suspended for the entire upcoming NFL season, but is that enough? I think Donte Stallworth doesn’t deserve no more football time on any body’s team and I hope no NFL team will have him again. I believe in given guys a 2nd chance and I fully support Plaxico Burress and even Michael Vick coming back to the NFL, but you don’t get those 2nd chances when you kill someone. What NFL crimes will we see next?

We are just a couple of weeks away from the day we pay tribute to all the dads out there. I’m sure most kids are still searching for a gift for dad and will probably wait until the last minute to pick one up. If you’re looking for a great gift to give to your daddy this year on his special day, you may want to take a look at a multifunction laser printer. This would be perfect for the father that has an office at home and I’m sure this printer would be a major upgrade from the one he is currently using.

Konica Minolta magicolor 1690MF Laser Printer

I’m not a dad yet, but I certainly would like this laser printer for my office set up at home. You can find a great sale at buy.com

It’s been a long and dry season for many parts of the southern U.S., but Mother Nature is making up for it now. The rains have finally arrived and they’re coming down in buckets now. It would be nice to see these showers in July and August, but I’m sure gardeners will take it now. Most crops and plants are just now starting to grow well and these rain showers will help them shoot straight up. An Indoor Planter or Outside Planter has been the best way to get things growing over these dry spells. Planters are a good way to control your own moisture and you don’t have to depend on the weather; if you water your plants regularly. The people that do all their planting in the yard and gardens will have to keep a water hose handy in case Mother Nature does turn off the spouts for a period of time. Everyone should try to think of other ways to plant their flowers and vegetables, since rain has been a hard thing to find lately.

It looks like the current weather system is going to be here for a long time. No relief in sight and each day this week we should see the lawns getting a good shower daily. This is great news for the farmers out there and hopefully the grounds will soak up a lot of this extra water and retain it for later. A Window Box Planter may not be getting too much water from the skies, if it’s blocked off from the rains, so you may still need to throw a little extra water on them.

You can rely on other methods of planting when Mother Nature is not being kind to us. The planters are a great way to control things and they are available in a variety of choices. You have your simple pots or plain planters you can grow flowers or vegetables in or get some of the nicer ones available. The Decorative Planters are really nice and you would want to display these where people could see them. No sense in spending the extra money for the High End Planters if people are not going to see them. These types of planters touch off a home or yard really great. You also have the same advantages with controlling the water or moisture content of the soil like you do with your other standard planters. Let’s just enjoy the rainy days for now and hope they continue to last for all of us that like to get our hands dirty every now and then. Don’t forget to bring me some of those fresh vegetables; when they start growing in your Garden Planter this summer.

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