So I'm sitting here, watching the ridiculous local news, wondering if the tornado watch now in effect will mean cancellation of Cookie's baseball practice... and they announce the latest marketing scheme to prop up the hapless image of the Cleveland metropolitan area. The campaign is called "Cleveland Plus" which I immediately translated into "Cleveland Pus" (right on point with the bio-med research they most wish to attract). I suppose it has a nicer ring to it than "Mistake by the Lake" but I'm still not sure how it's going to convince anyone to set up shop in the region.

Oh well, I guess they have to find ways to spend the money they heisted from me this year via their confiscatory local income tax. Hey, maybe that's what the "Plus" is for in the new slogan!

I wish I'd known there was a slogan contest -- could've been blog fodder for weeks.

This year it's machine-pitch baseball for Cookie. Perhaps "machine" is too strong a word for the contraption that sits atop the mound where the coach cocks the arm, loads a ball, and releases the spring-loaded catapult to hurl the ball past the wild swings of our little heroes.

We had rainstorms already this afternoon, so the ballfield will likely be very muddy and mucky. Cleveland Pus.