1986 world series

The 1986 World Series between Boston and the Mets was the first series I ever sat down and watched completely.  I knew none of the history of the Red Sox, and watched National League baseball much more than American League, so I rooted for New York.  Two of the brightest young stars on that team have been in the news this year.  Roger Mcdowell was a major player on that team, and has recently been accused of yelling gay slurs at a fan.  He apologized and was fined.  So much for the prankster image he was known for throughout his career.  This is not so terrible compared to Lenny Dyskstra.  Watching Dyskstra in 1986 was exciting, it was like what you heard announcers say when Pete Rose came to bat.  He was tough, fast, and fearless.  Dykstra has had a series of problems outside of baseball.  He has run a number of businesses into the ground, declared bankruptcy, stripped Wayne Gretzky's old house of sellable materials (really, look it up), lived out of his car (classy), and most recently interviewed various ladies for a job he most likely couldnt pay them for, and exposed himself to each of the interviewees.  This actually barely begins the rapsheet for Nails.  Life outside of baseball has not been so swell for Dykstra.  Hopefully Mookie Wilson is giving to charity somewhere.

craigslist is weird

So, there is a lot of what most people would consider junk around the house.  Some of it too large to ebay, and, if it is considerably useless, or useful to someone possibly, it makes its way to craigslist.  Not too long ago in the barn, I found a package called backjoy, which is a pad for making sitting more comfortable.  It supposedly helps your back, hence the name.  It came with two pads and a dvd.  Really, a dvd explaining how to use the pads to sit on.  I put it on craigslist for 10 bucks just to see what would happen.  Probably a month or so passed, and someone wrote from Nebraska desperately wanting said pads.  If you have ever used craigslist, you know it is usually a local search.  This means some guy was at his computer scanning the midwest for a pair of asspads accompanied by an instructional dvd for the low, low price of ten screamin dollars.  This alone is disturbing.  Are there no asspads for the good cornhuskers of Nebraska?

Furthermore, I put a pair of star wars vintage vehicles on a month or so ago.   I have received no local email, but some unabashed nerd wrote me from tulsa more than a dozen times trying to hammer out a deal on shipping although i didnt want to bother to put them in a box and go to the post office.  Once again, I would like to point out that this man was trolling a different state for product, namely beat up star wars vintage vehicles.  Who does that?