Altuve gets dumped...

And I'm not talking about how I traded him for Joey Votto...

Gotta say it was a good day...

Have you ever seen a Hobbit play baseball?

It's true!  Hobbits have sometimes been spotted playing baseball!

Take a look:

And the winner is . . .

Round	Pick	Player	Position
1.	(5)	Joey Votto	1B
2.	(16)	Giancarlo Stanton	OF
3.	(25)	CC Sabathia	SP
4.	(36)	Jay Bruce	OF
5.	(45)	Max Scherzer	SP
6.	(56)	Mat Latos	SP
7.	(65)	Asdrubal Cabrera	SS
8.	(76)	Jose Altuve	2B
9.	(85)	Mark Trumbo	1B,3B,OF
10.	(96)	Joe Nathan	RP
11.	(105)	David Price (k)	SP
12.	(116)	John Axford	RP
13.	(125)	David Ortiz	1B
14.	(136)	Justin Upton (k)	OF
15.	(145)	Josh Reddick	OF
16.	(156)	Josh Rutledge	2B,SS
17.	(165)	Alexi Ogando	RP
18.	(176)	Marco Estrada	SP,RP
19.	(185)	Chris Perez	RP
20.	(196)	Kevin Youkilis	1B,3B
21.	(205)	Nick Markakis	OF
22.	(216)	Victor Martinez (k)	C

Saturday Shuuto

The Houston Astros 2012 season in a microcosm:

I suppose it could be worse though...

Odin's Day Oddity

Thanks to the handy website How Many Altuves, I now know that I live at 1248.3 Altuves above sea level.