it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

I was going to write "newvers" but that doesn't even make sense now with some sleep in me.

JERED WEAVER GOT A HAIRCUT. I DONT KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS BECAUSE I AM TOO SCARED TO GO LOOK IT UP. It's a buzz cut. I mean. Like. What?

The amusing part of the article though: He communicates frequently with big brother Jeff Weaver, the Dodgers right-hander who is always available for advice and encouragement.

"I talked to him the other day," Jered said. "We had a long conversation. He's been through a lot of ups and downs in his career, and it's always good to get his view of things. Now it's just a matter of going out and doing the job."

AKA: He's used to failure, whereas I am not because I am the golden child Weaver. But, seriously, apparently Jered thinks he might have a dead arm. Why do I love pitchers so much when I know they deteriorate faster than others? Is it because of that???

And then in Jeff Weaver news that might also interest noword4it: Apparently Jeff liked George Sherrill. I mean, I'm constantly shocked when Jeff talks about liking people because I tend to think of him as Kid Kash-esq in my head in the grumpy "fuck all of you" sort of way.

As a college senior at Austin Peay in Tennessee, Sherrill one day slipped on the front porch of his apartment. His left arm went through a window, leaving him with a sizable laceration.

"I don't know if I was going to get drafted," Sherrill said, "but that was the nail in the coffin."

...... That is pretty awesome. Only because he obviously was still amazing enough to get a job. Even if it was for Baltimore.

Sherrill became an All-Star closer in Baltimore and was nicknamed "The Brim Reaper" by then-teammate Kevin Millar because of his habit of wearing his hat with a flat bill. Sherrill trademarked the nickname last winter.

Oh Kevin Millar, let's get fucking married.

Speaking of Millar, and the last Weaver brother (or "lost" Weaver brother as the case may be): Bronson Arroyo is in the news. Why, you may ask? Because he wants you to know, before you ask, that he might have done some amphetamines in 2003-2004 around the time Papi's test supposedly came back negative. On one hand, I'm glad he said it before they found out the hard way, but on the other hand -- whhhy draw attention to yourself! Ha. I don't know, that's just me though.

"Before 2004, none of us paid any attention to anything we took," he said, according to the Herald. "Now they don't want us to take anything unless it's approved. But back then, who knows what was in stuff? The FDA wasn't regulating stuff, not unless it was killing people or people were dying from it."

Arroyo said he started taking taking andro after 1998, after a season with the Pirates' Double-A affiliate. "Andro made me feel great, I felt like a monster. I felt like I could jump and hit my head on the basketball rim," he said, according to the report.

Arroyo said he is happy the game now has mandatory drug testing, according to the Herald.

"I feel like the game's getting cleared up," he said, according to the report. "Personally, I don't care what people think about what I did. I do what I do."