Fun Practical Joke for Kids

One thing I know is that kid’s like it when you play tricks on them. For example, I was going to take my nephew to see a baseball game, but instead I drove to an old burned down warehouse.

“Oh No!” I exclaimed, “it looks like the ballpark burned down. I bet all of the players are dead.”

On the way home he cried and he cried, but deep down I’m pretty sure he thought it was a good joke.

Rays Nix Threshers Pat Burrell Bobblehead

UPDATE: WOW! I first broke this story on Thursday night, and it has really taken off. All of the local media outlets have picked up on it, and so has the Associated Press. I’ve seen the articled cloned on at least a dozen other websites, and seen it referenced on many others. Thanks for spreading the word people. BOO RAYS!

IN OTHER NEWS: The Tampa Bay Rays have appearantly chosen to execute a rarely used agreement between Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball that allows any MLB club to prohibit a minor league franchise within 60 miles of their club to give away bobblehead dolls at any game (plus other prohibited promotional activities).

On Friday the Threshers are scheduled to give away a Pat Burrell bobblehead as part of a Friday night bobblehead series which has already included Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins on two previous Friday night games. The Threshers’ intention was to give away a bobblehead of every starting player in the Phillies 2008 World Series lineup.

Clearwater Crushes Dunedin on Friday Night

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Threshers 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 0 0 10 11 1 Bluejays 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 2 7 13 2 Catcher Joel Naughton watches his grand slam sail over the right field wall.

Clearwater Tops Dunedin in Opener

Threshers Defeat the Bluejays 5-2

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
Bluejays	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0		2	2	0
Threshers	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-		5	10	0

The Clearwater Threshers looked sharp in their 2009 season opener against the Dunedin Bluejays. Kyle Drabek got the opening night nod to take the hill, and looked good except for one rough inning in the fourth. Through the first three innings he had held the Bluejays hitless with his only blemish as a hit batsman in the first.

Quintin Berry Arrested in Overnight Raid

Clearwater, FL (AP):   In a still developing story it was learned this morning that Clearwater Threshers center fielder Quintin Berry was arrested after an overnight raid of his apartment.   Clearwater police would not reveal exactly what led them to Berry, but it is believed that an undercover informant within the Dunedin Bluejays organization had been working with the police in a season long sting operation.  The Bluejays front office did not return my phone calls, but I did speak with Dunedin catcher Matt Liuzza earlier today.