I haven't been as inspired to post stuff the past couple of days. (I'll probably elaborate later.) But with things pretty slow here this evening, let's see what I can dig up ...

R.I.P. Ted Williams
With all of the losses this baseball season, it pretty much seemed fitting that Ted Williams would pass away after a long illness. But like Jack Buck, it's a time for celebration in remembering one of the game's all-time greats (although we've been in that holding pattern since the '99 All-Star Game).

A couple of tangential thoughts about this: Williams wasn't the nicest player out there, but let his bat do the talking to make him a legend. Will Barry Bonds get the same type of attention when he retires. Not just in death, but the icon status that Williams got pretty much after his retirement. Also, will his son John Henry now get the boot from the rookie league team since he said the reason he wanted to play was so his father could see him in a Red Sox uniform?

Mmm, hot dogs
We got the live feed of the hot dog eating contest and it was both sickening and amazing at the same time to see Kobayashi put away 50 1/2 hot dogs in 12 minutes, but was he part of a barber shop quartet in Skokie, Illinois. I won't get into the "controversy" about his near roman-method incident other than given how he lapped the field, would it have mattered or would it be like a runner setting a fast pace and then dropping out?

The right fit?
Lauren would've been astounded to see a really long Daria marathon on The N -- the tween spinoff of Noggin, the Nickelodeon-Sesame Workshop collaboration. While the show was pretty smart, the folks at TV Barn were wondering if their audience would gravitate towards airhead younger sister Quinn as opposed to Daria. That remains to be seen, although it's a nice quirky addition to the lineup that includes a bunch of Nickelodeon tween classics (from just after my time) and a new generation of Degrassi (a personal favorite of mine and Kevin Smith). Of course, I'm still looking around for the old repeats of The Electric Company (Sean caught it when he came by for a visit a couple of years ago and was transfixed) and especially Square One Television, which Craig says is full of Michigan in-jokes (hence why I never picked up on it).