Stealing Home and Sweeping a Series

Well, I was planning to post the video of Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury stealing home against the Yankees last weekend, a bonehead play for which I would have been tempted to strangle him also, but still quite a spectacle which certainly sent the crowd at Fenway out of control and must have taken some of the starch out of the boys in pinstripes.

But apparently there's some hassle about Major League baseball and the "broadcast, descriptions, and accounts" and all that other legal copyright stuff...so instead I'm stuck posting a movie of this Dramatic NASCAR car crash instead. (The whole idea of watching car wrecks for entertainment was distressing enough before some blogger added in the extra music. Just another reason not to like NASCAR, I guess).

Meanwhile, back at Fenway, it just makes me feel good to see a fellow Oregon State University Beaver doing so well in the Major Leagues. I'm told Ellsbury is the only Native American playing in the Majors. Not only does he have blazing speed, a hot bat and a great glove, he also has an amazing vertical leap, and apparently (like a lot of kids who grew up on the Rez), he really likes to hoop it up, and in High School would often jump center (and win!) against players 8 inches taller.

Oh wait, maybe THIS LINK might work.