Showing posts with label excuses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label excuses. Show all posts

1/19/2010

A slight delay

Good morning, all.

Tuesday is Staff meeting day at the ballpark and it starts in a few minutes. I would have the normal day of posting up by now, but I got caught up in watching a marathon of The Unit.

So, running a little late this morning.

The posting will be up later this morning...Along with a special announcement that will be along soon.

12/12/2009

Not today



Back tomorrow. Either before the Packer game against the Team of All Lies or after the game.

10/27/2009

Check back later today

Sorry, there were connectivity issues this morning. As in I couldn't connect the top of my eyelids to stay open until very late in the morning.

Staff meeting starts in 10 minutes and I'll be back after that to give you a world of whimsy and baseball....or something.

7/09/2009

Today may wind up like yesterday

Posts will be up later.

I have been scrambling around with some stuff. Some related to our starting pitcher, some related to sales, and some related to a completely different matter and some related somewhat to that matter but....

I am wasting time explaining this.

Gotta run.

Back later....maybe.

7/08/2009

I will try

The bus got in around 4:15 or something this morning and I slept in until 10. Lots of deadlines and various other projects today.

Trying to get game notes done in the next 30 minutes.

Will try to update with the usual posts around 4pm?

Until then, go take another look at that Ironside episode from Rain Delay Theater last night.

7/01/2009

Holy smokes

It's late. Gates open in about 45 minutes and I have a lot to do....so. Some of this stuff is going up without links. Other stuff will go up later today.

To the posts, eh?

6/25/2009

5:15 really?

Sorry for the lack of updates. Had to tape the TV show today and there were a couple of releases that needed to get out. Plus....geez, I'm just wasting time try to explain. Regular posting, plus one of those releases are on the way.

By the way, 5:15

Awesome, song by The Who!

6/14/2009

Well, hello.

I think that I just said something like: Six am bus departure times and 4pm game times are not conducive to being productive.

But there is nothing quite like the adrenaline rush you get when you wake up in your recliner without an alarm going off and wondering if that is a five or a six on the digital clock on the other side of the room

Unless it's the adrenaline rush you get when you are trying to figure out if you left your cell phone charger on the table at home, on the desk at work, or if it is safely packed somewhere in your briefcase but you just can't get to it to find out for sure.....

Enough about me...A short day of posting today. Sorry, but game time is in two hours.

6/09/2009

Check back later

A bit of a late start this morning....Ye, Gods that was a long day yesterday...It's Tuesday meeting day and a few other tasks..Should have something up by noon.

You'll just have to browse elsewhere while you are at work.

5/29/2009

It's not quarter to three

It's like 4am here in Grand Rapids. But, I that bus ride made me feel like Frank & I have been out on the town...so:



Posting will either be in two or three hours or not at all this morning.

5/24/2009

Regular posting will begin later

The internet connection at the hotel is being particularly dodgy this morning.*

So, I will be on the early bus to Pohlman Field with a full range of posts.

In the meantime, go check out the NCAA Division III College World Series coverage over at the PC.

Coach helps Carthage maintain game attitude

Shenandoah star hit hard by death of Angels pitcher

Trinity makes early tourney exit

Here's the NCAA D-III site...Great page with a lot of information, BUT they have one of my biggest pet peeves over there. The first game today does not start at Noon CST...It's at Noon CDT. All of the times say CST...Yeeearrrrgh!

*How dodgy? It's taken me 15 minutes to put this post together. I may be an idiot, but I'm not that slow.

5/23/2009

Look at the time...

Sorry. A little late....Let's just say you may want to check in on the Beloit Daily News, the Janesville Gazette, and the Rockford Register Star over the next few days for articles on Brett Lawrie and Cody Scarpetta.

and one of these days I am going to remember to update the MLB Alumni of the Day in the morning...Which I am seriously considering re-naming the Raul Ibanez Award.

5/20/2009

And here we go...

This is just a reminder...12-day road trip starts today...in about an hour actually.

Sorry about not having anything fresh this morning, but laundry and a series of Da Vinci naps...Hold on, I'll explain to the non-Seinfeld viewers.
Kramer opens the door and leans in.

KRAMER: Hey everybody. (to Jerry) Listen, uh, do me a favor, will you? I got a hot date tonight with Connie. Knock on my door, wake me up in twenty minutes, alright?

JERRY: Catnap?

KRAMER: No, no, no, no. (comes in) This is evolutionary. I been reading this book, on Leonardo de Vinci. See, that means 'from Vinci', d'you know that?

JERRY: (deadpan) That must be some book.

KRAMER: Yeah, well, turns out that the master slept only twenty minutes every three hours. Now, that works out to two and a half extra days, that I'm awake per week, every week. Which means, if I live to be eighty, I will have lived the equivalent of a hundred and five years.

JERRY: Just imagine how much more you'll accomplish.

KRAMER: Oh, I got a lot of things in the hopper, buddy.
Long story short....I'll be updating the blog from the hotel later today. TO THE BUS!!!

5/19/2009

Yes, I'll update before the game

Hi. Remember me? Blogger, announcer, living vicariously through himself?

The last few days have been a perfect storm of blogging prevention. Between a day game yesterday, a 12-game road trip for which to pack, a Tuesday staff meeting day, a speaking engagement to the Grand Chute Kiwanis in about 20 minutes, and taping the latest edition of Timber Rattler Field Pass...there has been a lot to do. Plus, I need about two hours every night to let my batteries recharge...If I were human, it would be called sleep.

Also, in answer to Eric in the comments below...It doesn't have to be Monday for it to be a Mehring Monday. In my world -- or at least the one my programmers have made for me -- everyday is Monday.

Maybe look for a Mehring Monday over at the main site on Wednesday or Thursday. Plus, since next Monday is a holiday and I have another day game along with a bus ride to Dayton from Beloit, Mehring Monday next week will probably be celebrated on Tuesday or Wednesday next week.

In closing....Sorry about that, Chief.

Stay thirsty, my friends.

5/18/2009

Whoa

Late. I know. How late? I don't have time to look up a picture on the internet to indicate how late I am.

Compressed posting this morning. Some may follow after the game.

5/15/2009

Greetings on a...grrrrr, rainy Friday morning in Cedar Rapids



Greetings, Timber Rattler fans.

Why is it whenever Mehring is late with posting, he sends me out with excuses. Oh, and it is raining in Cedar Rapids now, too. Let's see they said 40% chance in the morning and 75% chance at game time.

Oh, well. Nothing to do, but be prepared to play tonight. AND hate the rain!

Mehring had to finish his column for the Sports Bubbler. It should be up in about an hour. If you are a fan of The Smithereens, it will be worth a click over that way.

If you have no idea who The Smithereens are, click over there and try to figure out why Mehring would pick a semi-obscure band to wrap up the column. I am still trying to figure it out.

There is no late checkout room for Mehring today, so he is hurriedly throwing stuff into his duffle bag to pack while trying to make sure he isn't leaving anything behind. He may be updating the blog from the hotel lobby in a couple of hours.

Courage.

4/29/2009

Check back this afternoon

Sorry for the delay. Life would be so much easier if sleep weren't necessary.

But, then I'd wind up like Tony Todd in that one X-Files episode.

4/25/2009

Yeah, that two hours before game time posting schedule

Wow. Long day yesterday. I must have been tired or something.

One post is coming up in a minute. The rest will be up at some point before game time. Bus to the ballpark is at 2:00pm. Game is at 6:00pm.

4/17/2009

I have a legitimate excuse

Sorry for the late posting this morning.

I'd have all of this ready earlier, but there is a Dogfights marathon on History Channel. What am I supposed to do? Not watch it? Please.

Be ready for some now, some later, and a game tonight!

WOO-HOO!

3/28/2009

Present

As in "Here".

Might have been the last Saturday to sleep in for a while so, I did. Blogging begins....NOW!
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