This Little Piggy Cried Wheeeeee All the Way Home
Posted by Lucy on Sunday, August 20th, 2006 at 10:05 pm
Hi SBG fans, this is Lucy, SBG's long suffering wife.
I don't understand the attraction of this website. Every day a Twins game. Don't these guys ever get tired of baseball? I know I do. In fact, I can't stand watching even five minutes of any game.
What I like is gymnastics! SBG calls it "child abuse" but I find it very exciting. While SBG was wasting his time at the baseball game on Saturday night, I was at the Visa National Gymnastics Championships in St. Paul. It was a wonderful event and I was thoroughly impressed and happy to be there. SBG made sure I had good seats, so that was nice. I went on Thursday night, too, while SBG was lawyering.
I asked SBG to write about the gymnastics but he said, no. That's okay, because all he could say is something stupid like "Oh! She didn't stick the landing!" As if that's all there is to it. He doesn't appreciate any of the artistic elements, not to mention the incredible athletic requirements for these young women. It was a wonderful event, and I was thrilled to see the 1996 Gold Medal team, Bela Karolyi, and Mary Lou Retton. I suppose none of you baseball heads care about this, but I was thrilled! I think this may be the best gymnastics team we've ever had. I am looking forward to the 2008 Olympics with a lot of hope for this team.
Thank you everyone for expressing concern about my toe! It was badly deformed! Actually, it was bent the wrong way a little and it swelled up. I fractured the toe and it is displaced. They just wrapped it up to the next toe, and I'm toughing it out. It hurt a little and it's bothering me a little more tonight, but it's not that bad. SBG made sure I was well taken care of, as usual. He's not a bad guy, no matter what Bat-Girl thinks.
Now, time to talk about the cats. Jags, Theo, and Elly are doing quite well. I don't have any pictures because that great husband of mine lost the battery charger to our digital camera. Maybe he'll find that darned thing one of these years. So, I am reduced to telling you about the cats. Actually there's not much to say. The cats have a maddening tendency to show SBG affection and not me. However, I have recently resigned my job and am now a full-time cat sitter. 
In a month or so, those cats will be all mine! 
Any way, I don't really have much else to say. I hope you all enjoy SBG, The Magazine. I'm trying to like baseball. It's not really taking, but at least I'm giving it a shot. He tells me that this has been a great season, so I'll take his word for it.
Bye!
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Did you ever participate in gymnastics when you were growing up, Lucy? I feel like one of the reasons I'm so tied to baseball is the memories of playing it when I was a kid, dreaming someday of maybe being a professional player. Now, of course, I don't look at the game quite the same way, but I think what got me hooked was playing as a child.
I don't share SBG's exact disdain for gymnastics, but I find that I when I do pay attention (pretty much just during the Olympics) I often enjoy the work of the older gymansts more than most of the teenage gymnasts. To my completely untrained eye, the older gymnasts seem to be more graceful. So personally, I wouldn't mind seeing fewer girls in their early teens.
This is Lucy... IE is not working and SBG can't figure out how to log me into Firefox.
No. I don't like baseball. So, I never check out other sites. Heck, I hardly read this site.
Lucy here. I think I am logged in now. I participated in gymnastics as a girl. I was a big fan of Nadia Comaneci. I wanted to be like her. I appreciate the atheticism and artistry of the gymnasts.
Luc - hope this doesn't impact your running for too long...
She's got a fair amount of pain in her toe this morning. Hard to walk on. In a couple of weeks, she'll be healed up, I think.
Lucy - this is one of the most well-constructed articles on the website; SBG should take notes!
Hope you'll be healed and back to sticking landings in the near future. Meanwhile, please ask Gardy to put you in LF instead of CF for the time being, because he's a little slow in that regards.
Damning me with faint praise!
SBG tells me that that is a Torii Hunter reference and that he has a broken foot. Okay.
I read an interview with Dominque Moceanu once, where she said that taking a break from gymnastics during her teens really helped her health, and it finally gave her body time to grow. She felt gymnasitc stunted her growth.
I also remember one time when Svetlana Boginskaya kept getting penalized because she was too tall for the uneven bars. At a monstrous height of 5' 5", her feet kept hitting the lower bar when she swung around.
This is all anecdotal, of course. I don't know all of the in-depth gymnastics statistcal analyses yet. Forgive me.
I don't know about stunting growth unless the girls are starving themselves and exercising obsessively. I don't know. I do know that when Nadia grew her career was pretty much over.
One of the crazy things about Firefox is that it won't let me log out at home. In order to post, I have to set her up on IE, and boy the site stinks on IE. Phew.
I'll tell her to read the comments. When I get home tonight, I'll have her comment on the feedback.
That should say, in order for Lucy to post...
SBG: you could try clearing your saved password for the site, then re-set it WITHOUT telling FF to "remember always". That way you have to log in manually each time.
Or you'll have to have her log in separately on Windoze, I suppose....
You'd think it'd be that easy. When I log out, it comes right back. When I change the password, I have all kinds of problems and have to go to IE to fix. I'm stuck there.
Luc - I'd be curious to see if you ever read th' Batgirl site and what your impression was. I've been there once or twice when the topic came up here, but for whatever reason she didn't stick her landing with me. But there are cat pix.
No, I don't read Bat-Girl. I've never seen that site. I only read SBG when I've written something or if SBG has written about me.
SBG talks big, but he's pretty much a pussycat. He doesn't really talk about the site with me much, mainly because I don't care. He did tell me about the big controversy, which I thought was silly. We laughed about it the next day and we went out and got another cat!