MLB Thread Number 3, 2007

Kentucky Burgoo Stew (Courtesy of Bill Bavasi)

600 lbs. lean soup meat (no fat, no bacon) Squirrels - 1 doz.to each 100 gals.
200 lbs. fat hens, plucked
2,000 lbs. potatoes, peeled and diced
200 lbs. onion, peeled and diced
5 bushels of cabbage, chopped
60 lbs.of tomatoes, deskinned & chopped
24 lbs. of tomatoes - pureed
24 lbs. of corn, cut from cob
Red pepper and salt to taste and Worcestershire by the pint.


Mix the ingredients, a little at a time and cook outdoors in huge iron kettles over wood for 20 hour, stirring constantly.

 

Warning: Mr. Bavasi may be out to get you, BYH. Consider this:

Spongiform encephalopathies have been reported in a
variety of large and small mammals. While conducting
a study of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in south
Florida, one of us (JRB) observed an affected patient
who was originally a native of Kentucky and had a
history of eating squirrel brains. Dietary
transmission of prion diseases has been documented
experimentally in animals and in human beings who are
cannibals. Several case reports have suggested the
possibility of transmission of CJD by consumption of
brains of wild animals. These observations, together
with recent concerns about the transmission of a
unique encephalopathy in man believed to be related to
bovine spongiform encephalopathy led us to examine
the possible association of eating squirrel brains
with CJD in rural Kentucky, where eating squirrel and
other small game is not uncommon.

Culinary preparations include scrambling the brains
with eggs or putting them in a meat and vegetable stew
referred to as "burgoo". A history of eating squirrel
brains was obtained from family members of all five
patients with probable or definite CJD seen over 3,5
years in a neurocognitive clinic in western Kentucky.
Two women and three men aged from 56 to 78 years (mean
68.2 years) were affected. None were related and each
lived in a different town. Eating squirrel brains was
reported among 12 of 42 patients with Parkinson's
disease seen in the same clinic and 27 of 100
age-matched controls without neurological disease
living in western Kentucky. Ataxia early in the course
of the disease was seen in four of the patients with
CJD and myoclonus and periodic complexes on the
electroencephalogram were seen in all.

Death occurred within 1 year in four, whereas,
survival exceeded 3 years from the onset of symptoms
in one patient. Analysis of codon 129 of the prion
protein gene was not done. This observation will
require confirmation by studies of larger populations,
and a search for a scrapie agent in the brains of
squirrels, which have not heretofore been reported as
having spongiform encephalopathies. In the meantime
caution might be exercised in the ingestion of this
arboreal rodent.

[I may have a tagline in that last sentence.]

 

Come ON

 

The ATL crowd just gace Maddux a standing ovation when he came up to bat against Smoltz, and then they booed him when singled to center.

That was awesome.

 

A few years ago, I saw Johnson record the first six outs of a game vs. the Mets on strikeouts. On 18 pitches.

Somehow, somewhere in the middle, Joe McEwing singled.

 

Turnbow: 14.1 0 1 22 1.88 0.98
Cordero: 15.2 0 14 22 0.57 0.64

Meredith: 17.1 1 0 12 2.60 1.15
Hoffman: 12.2 1 9 11 4.26 0.95

Hoffman's ERA is high due to two bad outings. His WHIP is still low. The only category in which they're not comparable is strikeouts. BFD.

 

Jesus, just throw a bucket of chicken blood on him next time. ;D

 

You're a stupid fucking asshole. How do you like that? Fuck you I'm right you're wrong! SIMPLETON!!!!!

 

There's a couple words you don't see together very often.

 

Is that irony?

 

I've about fucking had it with all these "facts" and "stats." What do you think you're doing? Dispelling absurd statements with legitimate numbers?