College of Charleston plays Georgia Tech in the NCAA Baseball Tournament Super Regionals

NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament! From the Alumni Assoc Office!
Tailgating Party for the CofC Men's Baseball Team in Atlanta

The Cougars play Georgia Tech at 12:00 p.m. on Friday, June 9 on ESPN at Russ Chandler Stadium. Saturday, June 10 at 1:00 p.m., and Sunday June 11 at 1:00 p.m., if necessary. Click to register.

Tailgating will take place two hours every day before the Cougars Play. Friday, June 9, the tailgating will begin at 10:00 a.m. at O'Keefe Gym, two blocks away from Russ Chandler baseball stadium. ( Best location suggested by Georgia Tech.)
Please join the College of Charleston; look for Matt Kirkpatrick's (CofC baseball player), parent's RV, which will be decorated with CofC gear.

Directions to the tailgate: again two blocks from the baseball stadium.
Coming from 75/85...get off on the 10th Street exit. The exit veers off to the right..follow 10th Street, it will dead end into the basketball arena. At the stop sign, turn right, which is 10th Street. Take the next stop light (turn left) onto Fowler Street. Go up to the 2nd left, 6th Street. Go up the hill, parking arm will be up, enter on the left. We can walk to the stadium from tailgating. Again, this will be in O'Keefe Gym.

The Cougar Club and Alumni Services will provide beverages! Please join us.
The team and fan hotel is the Renaissance Hotel in Atlanta, phone number for reservations 888-391-8724 or 404-881-6000. Ask for the College of Charleston Room Rate.... $119 rate. Located 6 blocks away from Russ Chandler Stadium.
Ticket packets are available for $30 ( includes reserved seats for all games). Ticket pick-up will be at Will Call. This is a limited posting, so register today and support the Cougs!

Rock, Paper, Scissors-choose wisely

I thought the “Rock, Paper, Scissors” Order was just a hoax from Mrs. Demato to get a laugh from us all today, but this evening whilst checking the news I noticed this headline “Judge: Rock, paper, scissors to decide dispute” on MSNBC. It appears that two opposing counselors in Tampa, Florida are duke'in it out over the minutiae of every aspect of the case, AVISTA MANAGEMENT, INC., d/b/a Avista Plex, Inc., (Plaintiff) vs. WAUSAU UNDERWRITERS INSURANCE COMPANY, (Defendant). US District Judge Gregory Presnell ordered the two opposing attorneys to meet on the Courthouse steps on the 30th of this month for a game of high stakes “Rock, Paper, Scissors”. Winner takes all and decides the location of the deposition.

I know what you are thinking, this is better than the best lawyer joke on the market right now. But consider this, last year when Sony wanted to dump their art collection valued at $17.8 million, representatives from Christie’s and Sotheby’s engaged in “Rock, Paper, Scissors” combat to decide who would be the auctioneer for the collection. Christie’s won the best of three as rock always beats scissors. And Peabody thought we were the only people who played “Rock, Paper, Scissors” to solve matters. For those of you out of the loop, when we used to work together back in the day, Peabody opened a many gates due to his lack of prowess at the game of Kings.

The photo for today’s post is from Snorgtees.com, the “Choose Wisely” t-shirt is available for $16.95.

Smoked, read about it!

I know most of my readers did not attend the Citadel and probably don’t get the introduction of my post, but when you heard the words, “smoked, read about it” at the Citadel, you knew that you were a) busted, and b) done for. Since this happened to be my old roommate Akram Affanah’s favorite quote I thought that I would add it here because if there is one thing we know how to do to terrorists in this country it has to be beating the #2 out of al-Qaeda’s #2 guy. Although the 6’5” Saudi still eludes us, we have notched another number 2 man on our belt killing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (English translation: George Allan Smith, Jr. al-Deuce) in an air strike north of Baghdad. (Cue the music, “Bombs over Baghdad”. I love that song; it has to be my favorite all-time, club mix next to “December 1963”) I digress; Zarqawi a beauty school drop-out from Jordan, and what many of his bartering colleagues down at the city market in Bumfukd, Egypt referred to as “unemployable” found a calling in the terror organization al-Qaeda. A confidential source and former contemporary of Zarqawi told the Bushido, “Zarqawi has the potential to really blow our group (al-Qaeda) up!” Booyah al-Qaeda! High five and a Bushido bow to the 5-hundo bombardiers who dropped in our friends over in Iraq. I can’t wait until the allied forces kill the next number 2! By the way, does anyone know the flow chart or terrorist TO&E? I want to know who is next on the #2 list.

I know BushCo said, that we should not expect riots from the capture and death of al-Zarqawi, but I would like to offer one caveat, when deciding to kill a high-ranking member of a religious-based terrorist group, check the calendar and make sure there is no significance to the day of attack. On this day in 632, The Prophet Mohammed died in Medina.

(Photo compliments of Strategic-Air-Command)

Good news for Red Sox Fans!

Good news for Red Sox fans: Delta announced that tomorrow they will begin non-stop flights from Chucktown to Beantown. Better news for Red Sox fans: Spirit Airlines will offer direct flights from Myrtle Beach to Boston beginning Tuesday, August 15, 2006 (two days before Brad Hiers 32nd birthday).

RMS Queen Mary 2 Port of Call in Charleston

The RMS Queen Mary 2 will leave Charleston this evening at 7 pm. Named after Mary of Teck, the Cunard Luxury Cruise ship was the largest in the world @ 151, 400 gross tons until Royal Caribbean christened the Freedom of the Seas @ 158,000 gross tons. The QM2 still holds the record as the largest cruise liner, but not cruise ship.

The RMS (Royal Mail Ship) QM2 always causes a commotion when she comes to port of call, as if the vessel is royalty herself. I had a chance to go down to the cruise terminal and check her out, and dang she is one big woman! Since the guys and I were dressed in Native American attire, as we looted the tea aboard the ship and threw it over-board into the Charleson Harbor, (Don't tread on my with your Stamp Tax there King George) I didn't have a camera on me, so I am borrowing a photo from T Walker.

Rick's Cabaret

Don’t worry folks there’s a strong introspective in the works for 6/6/6, I just haven’t had the time to put the final touches on it yet, but to keep things moving (and to keep with the day of decadence theme) I decided to post this from Andy Serwer Senior Editor at Large @ Fortune Magazine’s newsletter ‘Street-life’

RICK'S CABARET: This company owns strip clubs. I counted 11 of them on its website. The ticker is RICK (Research). If this tickles your fancy (or any other part of your body), go ahead. Stock's been streaking! (Hardy, har, har!) Up from like a buck in '03 to $6.50 today. Me? I'll pass. Anything can happen in this business (and usually does), though it IS recession proof. Could you explain it to your kids? Let the Vice Fund have it.

Interestingly enough, during my last escapade in New Orleans, I stopped at Rick’s Cabaret for some entertainment and to my surprise a nice dinner. Yes, probably the most surreal moment of my life happened when we (“Friend of the Bushido”-name omitted because Mardi Gras comrade has since been tagged, bagged and tranquilized into the institution of marriage) decided we’d buy a bottle of Dom Perignon (entry fee to the fine-dining restaurant on the second floor) and have dinner. I had the filet-mignon. Honestly, it was one of the best meals I had while in New Orleans. Yes, it was a unique experience to be in a fine dining atmosphere, with all of the nuances of such an establishment, but with fully nude women dancing around our table, joining us for ‘light’ conversation with Guns and Roses playing in the background. I recall that someone mentioned Rick’s was traded on the NYSE, and my reaction being come-on, enough is enough. This place is too much for my senses. After reading Serwer’s post today, it seems I should have used those dollars to purchase the stock instead of, actually now that I think about it, I don’t actually recall what I did with those dollars. Just like Vegas, What happened in New Orleans stays in New Orleans!

(The Photo of the famous Rick's Cafe from Casablanca is of no relation to Rick's Cabaret and compliments of Shubb.com, please visit their site to show support.)

Brian (Peabody) Waite turns 31!

Shocking isn’t it? Brian (Peabody) Waite did indeed get married before he turned 31. As the window of opportunity was closing fast and the music about to stop, Peabody surprised us all by grabbing a chair and confidently cannon-balling into Holy matrimony with naturalist Francis Melfi. Brian held true to the pack he made with the other members of the Middleton Triumvirate and left the Bushido off the guest list.

A bright-line-ultimatum was drawn in the proverbial sand, and at very moment I knew the “Chair of Bachelorhood” was in danger of falling into the wrong hands. Risking physical danger, I used my Indiana Jonesque quick thinking (on my feet) to grab the “Chair of Bachelorhood” and escape doom as the booby-trapped walls of apartment 311 began to fall. Worry not my dear friends, as the COB was saved and now it is stored in a place. Had I not done so, the COB would have soon been destroyed (left on the curb for trash day) and we (bachelors) around the world would be faced with immediate marital arrangements once we all turned 25. Happy Birthday Peabody!