Push Em Out….Push Em Out…Way Out!

Go Team Birnbaum! You have produced a beautiful baby girl. Yesterday we welcomed Isabella Esther Birnbaum into the world. Well…”we” didn’t exactly welcome her as phone calls to both of her parents went unanswered. Geeze, you’d think they were in the hospital surrounded by family and their real friends who would take time off of work and other commitments to be there.

While I don’t know the reasons she was bestowed with the name Isabella, I do want to take some time to share with you some “public” info on the name (generically speaking).

The Wikipedia says among other things that its meaning is “My God is my oath" and its origin is Hebrew via Greek and Latin. There are queens and duchesses that are blessed with this name as well as grapes, rock albums and even an episode of the Sopranos.

This is all well and good but we’ve already missed the obvious, “Can we call her Izzy?” If we can then this is a whole new ball game as “Izzy” is synonymous with so much more and I’m not just talking about the whiney resident on Grey’s Anatomy. Izzy is an Olympic Mascot (Atlanta ’96), a Pizza Chain in the northwest US, and even a former guitarist in Guns and Roses.

The bottom line is that she’s now here and it’s up to all of us to make sure this is a good place for her to grow up. So with that said, if you’re reading this at your desk, tidy up a bit, clean up those papers and clean out that coffee mug. If you’re reading this at home, pick up those clothes and dust off that table. If you’re reading this while walking down the street, bend over and pry that gum off the sidewalk and when it’s sticking to your fingers be careful not to run them through your hair.

Now get out of here and wish “Izzy” a long and fruitful time here on this rock and her family a hearty Mozel Tov.

The One That Got Away... (and Grey's Season Premier)

...is what the Mets are saying now. A the recommendation of a few of you I've posted this picture which is truly worth 1000 words.

How can you blow a 7-game lead like this? How can the manager just let them walk back into the dugout after blowing another game. If that were me, I wouldn't let them into the clubhouse. They would wait in the dugout until the other team left the field. Then the fun begins...they would run their butts off (or until they dropped, whichever came first). How you can't get fired up about loosing so often and at the stretch run to the playoffs. But don't worry. Manager Willie Randolph is guaranteeing that they'll win "The Whole Thing." At least he's confident.

Fatass Carlos "I can't see the ball" Delgado actually had this to say, "It's not about winning the games. We have to go out there and play." Uh, Carlos, actually IT IS ABOUT WINNING THE FREAKIN GAMES! That's what they pay you the money for. Trust me I've been watching this game for a while and I'm really positive that you go out there to WIN!

But enough complaining there. I'm sure they'll give me plenty more go off on over the last four games of the season.

I also wanted to touch on the Grey's Anatomy season debut last night. I understand that they need to "tie up some loose ends" from last seasons finale but perhaps they let the writers come back from vacation prior to beginning filming. Seriously (stop the jokes), it looked like the producers 8 year old daughter wrote that script. You only got to know one of like 40 new interns who just happens to be Meredeth's sister! If she had an offer to go to Mass General and could only end up at Seattle Gray's then she's really screwed. At least she could have gone in with those guys from Scrubs. That looks like a good Jewish Hospital. Also, and I'm saying this slowly so I can process it: A doctor and her team of interns performed surgery on a deer in the back of a pickup truck parked in the hospital's emergency lot? Surely the doctor that wasted valuable hospital supplies on not only an animal, but one without health insurance, would get in trouble? Surprisingly NO, she didn't get in any trouble. Funny at the end of last season (17 days ago in the show's time frame) did she open a clinic for poor kids at that same hospital. While she was playing Dr. Doolittle, who was manning the clinic. I'm sure her interns could have learned a lot more there then in a parking lot.

OK now I'm really done. I'm going to look for a deer. Or at least a green tractor.