Eh, coppa’.  You ain’t never gonna catch me, see!  There’s a flew of us down on eighteenth street and we have tommy guns and bath tub gin up to the sky!  To the sky, see!  Blow you to pieces if you try to come in our speak easy!  Now if you – any of yous – wanna get wise and try to drop a dime, you might find yourself on the opposite end of a Kansas City shuffle!

Vazquez was most likely hanging a curveball in this picture

Pitcher (and headcase) Javier Vazquez was dealt by the White Sox today to the Atlanta Braves today for a guy who hit .220 in AA last year and some winner named Jo-Jo who was 3-11 in the National League.  As you can see, the demand for Vazquez was astronomic this offseason…

Now allow me to be the proverbial door-hitting-Javy-on-the-ass-on-the-way-out: Javier Vazquez sucks.  We always hear from Hawk how this guy has some of the best stuff in the Majors, and although that is a stretch, he has well above-average stuff. Now, anyone with four plus pitches should not be a .500 pitcher.  Javier Vazquez is like Nuke LaLoosh in all but the last half hour of Bull Durham: million dollar arm and 10 cent head.  I’m glad to see a guy go who lashes out at his catcher for not calling the right pitches (see A.J. in September). You know what nutjob, you could have shaken the sign off.

I will not even wish Vazquez well.  Even though he is going to a joke of league that is the NL, in a cavernous ballpark that cedes about 3 home runs all year, guess what?  He is still going to suck. Prediction for the upcoming season?  The usual: 12-14, 4.73 ERA, 185 K’s, and one case of clinical personality disorder.

Like Mayor Daley with Meigs Field, MOJO HD was taken away from Comcast users unannounced in the middle of the night on November 30, 2008.  Comcast, which created and owned the full-HD channel discontinued the channel as of December 1st.  MOJO HD was home to such great shows as London Live!, Pressure Cook, Getting Abroad, and of course Three Sheets with Zane Lamprey.

Now I’ve never gotten serious once on my blog, but this move by Comcast is absolutely ridiculous.  I encourage everyone to call Comcast non-stop and demand they put the channel back on the air.  My original idea of burning down their headquarters had serious legal ramifications, so I think this route may be better.  Also, if we cannot save MOJO HD, we might be able to save Three Sheets.  Go over to www.zanelamprey.com to find out how to write to other channels in hopes of them picking up Three Sheets.