Face the Book the Yard is here!

After much debate and cultural spin, the Yard now has a link on Face Book. We can still be found at http://tonyattheyard.blogspot.com/ but there is now a new link on Face Book. It is under our stage name-tony.seber@gmail.com. We struggled with the decision. FB seems like chick thing but with four sisters and a daughter, the Yard has chick thing embedded in our rugged veil of testosterone. My children and the woman I date apparently do not want to be our friend on FB at this time. Other than that home court rejection, the response has been positive and we welcome all of our Yard Brethren.

We appreciate all of the positive feedback and we encourage you to connect with the Yard as an RSS feed. Your internet toolbar should have an RSS icon, and if you go the Blog site and click on that icon, you should be notified whenever this Yardomite gets inspired and puts words out. There might be more to it than that but in this economy we had to lay off the IT Director. Good luck.

The staff lobbied for tight deadlines and a regular publishing date for the Yard to keep our 27 readers current and boost revenue. The people that send me my real paycheck suggested otherwise. The VIP group of e-mail members will continue to receive Yard spam but please notify the circulation department if you find the content offensive, irrelevant or both. We would suggest being offensively irrelevant is not easy and the very reason to continue your subscription.

The Yard has been drowning in the Dodger Malaise this past week. Manny has been largely quiet since going into rehab for his female hormone supplement addiction. Dodger starting pitching has been sketchy during their bright moments and scary in most others. If we hear one more Bigelow Tea commercial for Joe Torre, we are going to yak. Joe, come on man do a beer, scotch, chew or some other advertisement that men do when they need to be men. The Chamomile and green tea is not working in the Dodger dugout.

Ok, ok, the Yard went Face Book but we are so far off the radar that our testicles were largely unaffected during this transition. The shrinkage was blamed on the recent cold snap and so far unnoticed. Joe, you are the leader of the Dodger nation and we want a Jose Cuervo commercial with a beer back by the first round of the playoffs dammit!

The 160 bottles of champagne that were traveling with the Dodgers are almost as tired as the starting rotation. The Dodgers only had to win that one game and the bubbly is spraying in the eyes and dreadlocks of many. The champagne was chilled four times, plastic sheeting put up twice and goggles made available in anticipation each night. The sparkling wine is so well travelled it is now registered as a new friend on FB. We have welcomed all who want to be a friend of the Yard and champagne is always our friend. We want this champagne cracked before Sunday afternoon.

Waiting a week is anticlimactic at best and downright disturbing to most of us. The Dodgers were playing the Pirates and the Padres during this stretch. These teams are a collective 172 games out of the playoffs and have been since late May. They traded away half their teams in July. Their payrolls are comparable to the Dodger coaching staff and they beat the Boys of Summer all the way back to Elysian Park. The red hot Rockies are coming to town and this is not a Bigelow moment, Joe. We would drop an F-bomb right but we are new to FB and that shit might not roll over there.

Postgame: Laker camp opened and the paparazzi were there to catch a glimpse of Lamar Kardashian. He had his hat pulled down low with Ray Bans and a Starbucks coffee in an effort to sneak in the building. Jake Gyllenhaal does that quite effectively in Star magazine or so we hear. This 6’11” 250 double espresso is tough to miss in any disguise. With his $10 million a year paycheck, Chole did not miss this opportunity to get on an NBA payroll. Next stop is spawning followed by child support and alimony. Lamar, there is so much quality trim in LA with no baggage and better upside. You will not still be married to this hoe before your contract expires and you better have a pre-nuptial.