It's A Boy!

Sour Grapes contends it knows nothin’ ‘bout birthin’ no babies; however, at 12:05 this morning, our son, Larry Dot Net, was born.

Now there are regular readers of this blog who know for a fact that Larry Dot Net has been around for a long time. They’ve been the daily and more than daily recipients of the late afternoon cell phone login which begins, “Hey, buddy!” The interface usually includes poker references, BABI rule change proposals, Diebold complaints, and for the period that Dot Net was out of work, Robert in the background. These daily moments simultaneously make your day and ruin it.

But that was the old, amateur Larry Dot Net. Born in the early hours this morning was the new and improved and online incarnation of Larry Dot Net, kind of a Larry Dot Net Dot Net. In fact, that’s a much better name for the blog than Statistically Speaking, , Baseball, That Is. And what’s with the extra comma? Is that one of the statistics?

Larry Dot Net is the second son of the Peckler Boys, Kenny 9 having dipped his toe in the water at the beginning of this baseball season. We notice that Kenny 9’s interest in his blog reached new heights when he suddenly perceived he wasn’t looking up at the rest of BABI. His start was tentative, but he came out of the incubator and is breathing well on his own, allowing us to focus our attention on our new baby.

Daddy is so proud. We know that if Larry Dot Net puts the same energy and enthusiasm into this online venture as he has in driving his current subscribers crazy, we’re going to be in for quite a ride. And for those of you dying to know the current line, the over/under on number of posts before he mentions Diebold is 2.5.

We do have a couple of complaints already. First, our link doesn’t work. Larry, you’ve got "http://" in there twice. Second, get that Google News link out of there, or at least put it after our link. Hey, who’s your daddy?

We present to you all, our new son. The bris is scheduled for next Friday. For now, have a cigar.