Operation Shut Down

You may be asking yourself, what the bloody hell is Operation Shut Down? Well my mind has officially begun "Operation Shut Down" and I thought I should get a few thoughts out of my head now before all is lost to tomorrow's mind numbing meeting. For those who don't know "Operation Shut Down" was a phrase coined by Pirates baseball player Derek Bell who in 2001 had a horrible year, batting .173. Well come spring training there came word that he would be competing for a starting job. His response is as follows.

"Nobody told me I was in competition. If there is competition, somebody better let me know. If there is competition, they better eliminate me out of the race and go ahead and do what they're going to do with me. I ain't never hit in spring training and I never will. If it ain't settled with me out there, then they can trade me. I ain't going out there to hurt myself in spring training battling for a job. If it is [a competition], then I'm going into 'Operation Shutdown.' Tell them exactly what I said. I haven't competed for a job since 1991."

Ever since then many people, usually due to the Jim Rome Show, begin "Operation Shut Down". Since Operation Shut Down has begun I will be release a few thoughts that I have in my head that spans last Friday to today.

•Friday as I drove north towards NJ/PA I somehow got stuck in Fredrick for two hours. This has never happened to me before when I took this route, sure 270 can be a bitch, but it’s usually fine once you enter Fredrick. I finally discovered that those assbackward goat fuckers were literally stopping, I mean a full on stop, to look at an accident. This accident wasn’t bad, there was no blood, no bodies and the cars were on the side of the road. These chicken fuckers were stopping for a fender bender and making my trip extend from just under five hours to seven hours.

•When taking a new route to somewhere never get off at the point you THINK is the right way. It tends to take you in a boomerang and you end up wasting even more time.

•The more, or I should less, I watch the pro wrestling on TV the more I realize just how much Chris Jericho is needed to be our very own personal savior. Why he doesn’t realize this I don’t know, but I hope he will hear the prayers soon.

•One of the secretaries I work for needs to stop deleting shit. I am tired of having to constantly put stuff on her machine because she’s deleted shit.

•We may have lost Nate Clements to the Niners, who overpaid just to get him to go to Cali instead of his home state of Ohio, but we we still have Steinbach. I also really like the two other signings we made, it will definitely help out depth which was really hurting last fall.

•Kickball is starting to pick up steam and it feels good to have it finally back in my life, I’ve missed it like an addict misses his fix.

•March Madness this year will have more surprises then ever before, mark my words.

•This is 300 week, I don’t know if I can really put into words how excited I am at this point. I don’t know if I’ve ever been this excited for a movie and I almost went naked to Sin City.