All-Venezuelan outfield

As a follow-up to my baseball trivia post yesterday, I note that Hugo Chavez has been very good for the Seattle Mariners:

When Ronny Cedeno started in left field Wednesday, with Endy Chavez in right and Franklin Gutierrez in center, it was the first time in major-league history a team started an all-Venezuelan outfield.

"It's nice to be a part of something like that. To make history," Chavez said.

The last outfield that started a game with three players from the same non-U.S. country was when the Angels had Raul Mondesi, Jose Guillen and Vladimir Guerrero (all from the Dominican Republic) out there on June 8, 2004.

The M's have eight Venezuelans on their squad.

Gutted

Damn those paparazzi!

This photo, taken by my younger nephew in the Dominican Republic, is probably already TMI for some of you, but beware that below the cut is a meditation on body image that may tell you far more indeed than you want to know about me. Consider yourself warned!

( In the gutter ... )