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lamb is the traditional choice for easter dinner, and i’m all about tradition (despite the whole atheism thing).  mostly because i happen to love lamb.  also, perse balked at my suggestion of serving rabbit, stuffed with hard-boiled eggs.  when you think about it though, why is lamb traditional?  well, jesus was the lamb of god, so naturally when celebrating the merging of his ressurection with that of pagan fertility rites and various other spring ressurection myths, it makes sense to symbolically eat jesus.  because, as with the whole communion thing, christianity is all about cannibalism.Â

so, i was watching the rays vs. sox game yesterday, and (for some reason) extra innings decided to show the florida broadcast (despite having shown the NESN broadcast for the prior three games). anyway, during one of youkilis’s at bats, the color commentator remarks that “one of the reasons youkilis is batting after ramirez is that ortiz has had problems against kazmir”.

uh, what the fuck?

now, i suppose i shouldn’t expect them to know that francona has lately been sitting drew against lefties, and when drew (the usual 5-spot) sits, youk is usually slotted to bat 5th. even so, um, the 5 spot is supposed to protect the 4 spot, not whomever is batting 3rd. regardless of the players, this statement makes no sense. unless we assume that if ortiz didn’t have problems against kazmir, the rays would try to pitch around manny? huh? it’s giving me a headache trying to figure this guy’s logic out.

sometimes i wonder how these people keep their jobs.