Southern California Weather Affects Delwyn Young, Me

by Charlie on Jan 22, 2010 6:54 PM EST Comment 47 comments

Delwyn Young is ditching the Pirates' Winter Caravan:

Charlie Morton will replace Delwyn Young on the Winter Caravan next week. Young has been affected by some of the recent flooding in the Los Angeles area.

You may think the idea of Young skipping out on the Caravan because of bad weather in Southern California is some kind of joke, but no, and unfortunately I know that firsthand. Here's my car, parked at my apartment complex in San Diego yesterday afternoon.

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It's insured, fortunately. The entire complex is filled with eucalyptus trees, which apparently are very shallowly rooted and aren't meant to withstand lots of rain and wind. Which often is fine, of course, because we don't have a lot of that, but which creates big problems when there is rain. The entire week here reminds me of when I was in college in southern Virginia and we had a "blizzard" that was probably about eight inches of snow. School got cancelled Monday through Thursday. They were planning to have it on Friday, but then they had to cancel that too because they forgot to clean off the parking lots. Give a region weather it's not used to, and strange things happen.

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Sorry about your car Charlie! Thank God for insurance!

It’s raining like crazy up here in SF too.

by houksyndrome on Jan 22, 2010 7:40 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

What eucalyptus trees lack in root systems they make up for by being extremely flammable. They’re perfect for heavily populated areas. Transplanting them from Australia was a stroke of genius.

by WTM on Jan 22, 2010 7:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I detect sarcasm

in that gift from Aussie comment lol.

by BadAndy on Jan 22, 2010 8:24 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 0 recs

Kudzu was a great import, too.

by WTM on Jan 22, 2010 11:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Blame those Japanese

for the “kuzu” invasion.

by patthatt on Jan 23, 2010 8:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Who gets the blame

for the Asian carp?

I think I read somewhere that most everything that grows in North America now is an invasive species.

by bucdaddy on Jan 23, 2010 10:08 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Pretty much. Snakeheads, nutria, house sparrows, pigeons, starlings, most of the vegetation in Florida. All the nitwits in Phoenix with their eastern-style lawns even though they have no water.

I guess it’s kind of an issue for me.

by WTM on Jan 23, 2010 10:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Better call

Ohlendorf and the USDA crew to get a handle on this renegade flora!

by EndlessMike on Jan 23, 2010 9:24 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

At least

there wasn’t a Drop-bear in that tree. Would have kept the tree up until there was an unsuspecting pedestrian underneath. (They do that) :p

by BlindSquirrel on Jan 24, 2010 7:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

dang charlie

you got rocked. or at least your car did. Hope everything works out smoothly with the insurance.

by escroll on Jan 22, 2010 8:24 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Ugh.

Sorry about your car, Charlie.

We just dodged a bullet ourselves recently. We had a storm blow through that toppled several 40+ ft trees in our neighborhood that smashed through people’s garages and houses.

by MarkInDallas on Jan 22, 2010 8:33 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Bad weather everywhere.

Here in Iowa, we had freezing rain. Basically yesterday morning and this morning we all woke up to a thin layer of slippery ice on…everything. I had to scrape ice off the driveway two days in a row and I’m betting tomorrow it’ll be more of the same. And people wonder why I look forward to baseball season a lot more than football season….

by IAPiratesFan on Jan 22, 2010 8:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Jeebus, Charlie

Glad you weren’t inside, your being tall and all, the roof doesn’t have to get crushed much to hurt you.

by bucdaddy on Jan 22, 2010 9:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

See? If you’d have voted for Ron Paul, like your neighbor, you’d have been spared…

Free your ass and your mind will follow.

by cocktailsfor2 on Jan 22, 2010 10:41 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Ron Paul was great in Bruno.

by gorillagogo on Jan 22, 2010 11:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

As a kid, Ron Paul was Honus Wagner's milkman.

No shit. This is 100% true.

by Vlad on Jan 22, 2010 11:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

BS

No way…

The glare of the spotlight is harsh, and the pressure that success breeds immense. We revere our heroes, but expect much. And criticism can come as easily as praise.

by glass0941 on Jan 23, 2010 12:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Well

after a quick google search, the Paul family did own a dairy business, and Honus Wagner was allegedly one of Ron’s customers. Pretty cool actually

The glare of the spotlight is harsh, and the pressure that success breeds immense. We revere our heroes, but expect much. And criticism can come as easily as praise.

by glass0941 on Jan 23, 2010 12:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I always get

Ron Paul and RuPaul mixed up.

by Zadoras on Jan 23, 2010 1:22 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Wait, what?

//Checks vote totals on Secy. of State’s Web site.

by bucdaddy on Jan 23, 2010 10:14 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Didn't your mom ever tell you:

Red cars are unsafe? If you’d bought a nice silver sedan, this all could’ve been avoided.

by Vlad on Jan 22, 2010 10:59 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I can't be

the only one who loves “Used Cars” with Kurt Russell.

by bucdaddy on Jan 23, 2010 12:22 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

What about Jack Warden?

I never realized that Robert Zimeckis directed that flick

by EndlessMike on Jan 23, 2010 9:26 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Not to mention

Michael McKean and David Lander.

“This man built and installed his own pacemaker.”

by bucdaddy on Jan 23, 2010 10:18 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Eucalyptus trees?

What, you got a bunch of koalas around your apartment or something?

by Schide on Jan 23, 2010 12:56 AM EST reply actions 1 recs

I had to deal with an insurance company recently too.

I was on my way to the doctor with rear end trouble when my universal joint gave way causing me to have an accident.

by chodan11 on Jan 23, 2010 7:44 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Sorry about the car, Charlie.

I looked at the Winter Caravan schedule and they’re not visiting Parkersburg this winter, but they’re spending plenty of time in Morgantown and Wheeling.

It looks like they’re continuing the Pirates Report in the local paper in 2010, though. They announced yesterday Paul Ledewski will be the new beat writer. Hopefully, he will do a good job and last more than a year.

by patthatt on Jan 23, 2010 8:47 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Cutch

among the crew coming here this week. Think it’s Tuesday. Not sure I’ll make it because, ironically, my car will be in the garage having body work done.

by bucdaddy on Jan 23, 2010 10:10 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Confused

How did you manage to park your car under the tree like that?

by formerdraftpick on Jan 23, 2010 9:56 AM EST reply actions 1 recs

WHAT ABOUT THE GUITAR?

DID IT HURT THE GUITAR? IS THE GUITAR OK?

Like anything else matters.

by bucdaddy on Jan 23, 2010 10:11 AM EST reply actions 1 recs

Man, that looks annoying. Good luck, Charlie.

by shayborg on Jan 23, 2010 11:32 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

You live in SD?

Do you see this blog as a business opportunity?

by ol Pete on Jan 23, 2010 12:38 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

What? I’m from northern West Virginia. I’ve been a Pirates fan my whole life. I just happen to live in California right now.

by Charlie on Jan 23, 2010 4:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's just a question

by ol Pete on Jan 23, 2010 9:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Just odd that you would go there based on some seriously scant information. Probably most people who follow the Pirates on the internet are displaced.

by Charlie on Jan 23, 2010 9:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Pittsburgh's leading export:

Pittsburghers.

by Vlad on Jan 25, 2010 10:05 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You're being evasive

Its not an oddball question.

by ol Pete on Jan 26, 2010 8:30 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It really kind of is.

And I say this as a guy living in Pittsburgh who makes $0 from it.

by Vlad on Jan 26, 2010 11:54 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It really isn't

You’re not the guy who planted the proverbial flag and grabbed SBN’s franchise for the Pirates. That’s how you get paid.

by ol Pete on Jan 26, 2010 1:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Will they let you keep the caution tape?

No seriously, good luck with that. There’s no pain in the ass in the world like an insurance company

The glare of the spotlight is harsh, and the pressure that success breeds immense. We revere our heroes, but expect much. And criticism can come as easily as praise.

by glass0941 on Jan 23, 2010 12:50 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Looks to me like the car had a pre-existing condition.

by WTM on Jan 23, 2010 3:04 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Heh

You’re funny, WTM.

“Funny? How am I funny? You mean funny like a clown? Do I amuse you?”

No, you’re just … a … a funny guy …

“Funny how?”

by bucdaddy on Jan 25, 2010 12:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Back to baseball:

If the last position player spot may very well be the only one open to competition in Bradenton, who should we cheer for?

1) Raynor

2) DY

3) Brandon Moss

by patthatt on Jan 23, 2010 4:36 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Definitely not Moss.

If the choice comes down to the other two, that’s gonna annoy the crap out of me. I’d rather keep both and ditch Vazquez.

by WTM on Jan 23, 2010 5:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Agree with that!

Don’t see it happening though. I think DY will get traded and Moss will get cut. Just a guess.

by Slick1 on Jan 23, 2010 8:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Sorry to here Charlie.

Hope the insurance thing gets resolved quickly.

by jonoz13 on Jan 24, 2010 1:39 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

San Diego

Charlie,

Sorry to hear about your car.

Just a mile or two down the road in Pacific Beach, we had people kayaking in the streets. I actually missed the weather while away on business, but I heard it was a complete mess. They closed the airport and it took me days to have an opportunity to get back into town.

by lost_zero on Jan 25, 2010 12:42 AM EST reply actions 0 recs