Bill Buckner hopes the Boston Red Sox’s first championship in 86 years ends the animosity aimed at him ever since his blunder in the 1986 World Series.

“Personally, on my end of it, I’m just a little disappointed with the whole thing. This whole thing about being forgiven and clearing my name, you know, I mean … cleared from what? What did I do wrong? It’s almost like being in prison for 30 years and then they come up with a DNA test to prove that you weren’t guilty.

“I’ve gone through a lot of, what I feel, undeserved bad situations for myself and my family over a long period of time, and for someone to come up to me and say, ‘Hey, you’re forgiven,’ I mean, it just kind of brings a really bad taste in my mouth.”

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I have long hated Tim McCarver’s ability to be a MLB commentator. Finally a site dedicated to his demise. He is beyond bad.

www.shutuptimmccarver.com

Tim’s quotables:
- “I think Tim Wakefield would even say tonight that Tim Wakefield got to Tim Wakefield tonight.”
- “It’s better to have a fast runner on base than a slow one.”
- “A walk is as good as a home run.”
- During a pretty good at bat by Orlando Cabrera: “Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.”
- “If football is a game of inches then baseball is a game of inch”

This story is getting way too ridiculous! It’s like Ensley has turned into old time Egypt or something.

Mummies may date to 1930s

Two corpses found in an abandoned Ensley mortuary are widely believed in the neighborhood to be murder victims from the 1930s.

No one knows for sure, but the mummified skeletons, found one on top of the other in a coffin by a passerby Wednesday, have probably been at the funeral parlor for 70 years or longer.

“Back in 1961, I was introduced to these two people and they were corpses back then,” 55-year-old Edward Rogers said Thursday. “They’ve been there a long time.”

Pap and Molly

Simply known as Pap and Molly, according to neighborhood lore, the husband and wife lived in the area and supposedly stabbed each other to death during a drunken fight in the 1930s. No one ever claimed their bodies for burial, and they’ve remained at Shortridge Funeral Home since.

“I do know for a long time I heard they had bodies up there that nobody ever claimed,” said Earlene Hunter, Ensley Neighborhood president. “I heard it so long way back until I’d forgotten it.”

A teaching tool?

Rogers said he first saw the mummified bodies when he was 11 and lived in nearby apartments. He said the owner showed him the corpses, which were propped against a wall in the back room.

“It scared me the first time,” Rogers said. “I didn’t go back for about a month. Then I’d go by and wave to them through the window. I just got to liking them.”

W.E. Shortridge told Rogers the murder tale, and said he preserved them in case somebody came forward to bury them. Eventually, Rogers said, Shortridge used them as a teaching tool for future embalmers.

Skin still in place

James McKinnon, 71, saw the corpses in the early 1950s. Then a Hueytown High School football player, McKinnon and two friends went to inquire after they heard mummy rumors. A man led them down a hallway to a back room.

“On the left-hand side of the door in the corner of the room, there were two mummies there,” McKinnon said. “The tallest one was against the corner and the shorter one was leaning up against him.”

The skin was still in place, he said, and they were standing upright.

“Only thing that was different from looking at a human was their eyes were closed,” he said.

This is just a few blocks from where I work. Classic news story…

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A passerby Wednesday found two decayed corpses in a closed, fire-gutted Ensley funeral home, and police said there may be more.

The corpses were in a coffin near a side door of the Shortridge Funeral Home. Melvin Jackson, a 22-year-old Virginia College culinary student, said he noticed something odd as he was walking by the building through the alley on his way to catch the bus around 5:30 p.m.

Jackson went inside to investigate and found a cloth-covered coffin, lid on the floor, with brown paper covering the opening. He lifted the paper and saw bones.

“I walked around and said, `No, that can’t be bones,’” he said. Then he said he saw a pelvis, rotted flesh and hands tied together, he said. Police later described the bodies as “mummified” and said the people were probably dead a long time.

Shortridge Funeral Home, a family business at 311 17th St., Ensley, closed about a year ago after 100 years serving Ensley and Birmingham. Its owner was civil rights activist and community leader Pinkie L. Shortridge, who died at 79 on Aug. 10, 2003. She had taken over the business from her husband after he died in 1964, and her friends have said she often helped families in need.

Police Wednesday night were trying to determine whether the bodies had been in the home since it closed or whether they were taken there.

The room that the bodies were in did not have extensive fire damage, and the bodies did not appear to be burned, said Sgt. Scott Praytor. If the bodies were there when the building burned down, they were probably concealed from fire investigators by a wall, he said.

Praytor said there were more caskets inside the building, but that police were waiting for daylight to look in them. The building was unsafe to explore at night because of the fire damage, he said.

Stephens said that after the funeral home’s neighborhood deteriorated, Shortridge always tried to clean it up and help people.

Can’t wait to see this movie. That’s Napoleon above.

Synopsis: Napoleon Dynamite is a quirky teenager growing up in the remotes of Idaho with a love for dancing and the way of the ninja who’s really just trying to understand his life while living with his Uncle Rico, whose shady business deals are just some of the things that make Napoleon’s social life in small-town Idaho all the more difficult.

From Movie Mom:
So, when our eponymous hero, Napoleon Dynamite climbs onto the schoolbus and slumps into a seat in the back and an admiring younger kid asks him, “What are you going to do today, Napoleon?” his reply is, “Whatever I feel like I want to do! Gosh!”

And when his older brother Kip taunts him, “Napoleon, don’t be jealous that I’ve been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know I’m trying to become a cage fighter,” he replies, “Since when? We both know you’ve got like the worst reflexes of all time!” Then he has to try to prove it, and it appears that in the race for that title, they may be in a tie.

Older brother Kip below

So you may be thinking, this is a lame movie. I’ve watched most of the video clips and it’s very awesome. Any doubters should check out the site:

Official Site

What is the CTA?
The Christian Tattoo Association is a non-profit, tax-exempt ministry to tattoo artists and enthusiasts. The main goal of the CTA is to share the Gospel with tattoo artists and enthusiasts. The CTA is not a Christian society trying to separate Christian tattooers and tattoo enthusiasts from the influences of the world. We are a ministry designed to assist born-again Christians in taking the Gospel of Jesus to those who have not yet heard the good news.

What does the CTA have to offer?
CTA offers you the opportunity to become a member of a respected tattoo association and to work side by side with respected tattoo artists in sharing the Gospel through the avenue of tattoos and tattooing.

Guess they ran out things to talk about.

Fake smile, reluctant hug

Great lines from last night’s debate…

In response to Kerry saying he’ll gather allies together, Bush said:
So what’s the message going to be: “Please join us in Iraq. We’re a grand diversion“.

Kerry on wavering:
I have no intention of wilting. I’ve never wilted in my life. And I’ve never wavered in my life.