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OK, one of our TOOSP group sent us Paul Potts, the Opera singing mobile phone salesperson.

This next young lady, Connie we stole from my friend Gail's site Doing This For Myself. Well, as Travis says, you do not steal from friends....you borrow their ideas, and thank them for it. So, thank you Gail.

This is once again from "Britain's Got Talent"...just fantastic




THE COUCH NOTE: This is NOT a Baseball story...it is a story of love framed in a theme of baseball...BEE...you read (and watch) it now!...hehehe

Yesterday on ESPN's "Outside The Lines" show they had a Father's Day Story that we truly enjoyed. It is not a new story, in fact the story begins back in the late 1950's when Joe O'Donnell would play baseball with his son Pat and the neighborhood kids.

Joe also played baseball for semi-pro teams in the upstate New York area. Dad and son talked about going to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown one day but that day never happened when Joe passed in 1966 when Pat was 18 and about to have his first son.

Pat did not have a close relationship with his son as he got divorced and his ex and son moved a few hours away. Pat did get to visit the Hall Of Fame in 1989 and while there he left the picture you see above with this note on the back. "You were never too tired to play catch. On your days off you helped build the Little League Field. You always came to watch me play. You were a Hall Of Fame Dad. I wish I could share this moment with you. Your son Pat"

He hid it between two cases honoring WWII and it stayed there until a renovation in 1994 when the photo floated to the floor as the displays were moved and a maintenance employee gave it to Mr. Ted Spencer, who is now vice president and chief curator for the Hall.

Spencer was able to identify the uniform as one from the late 1930s or early 1940s, and the dinosaur logo helped tab Sinclair Oil as the man’s team. Realizing it wasn’t a Hall of Famer touched Spencer, who believed the story a perfect response to any baseball naysayers.

“I was overwhelmed emotionally,” Spencer said. “It didn’t take a brain surgeon or a rocket scientist to figure out what somebody had done. It was very difficult for me to read it to people because I would become emotional. I’d say, ‘You have to read this, I can’t read it.’ And then they would react the same way.”

An article authored by Steve Wulf was published in Sports Illustrated on April 4, 1994, before anyone knew anything about the picture. The article helped identify Pat O'Donnell.

There is so much more to this story and it is not about baseball...it is about a love...and the outcome for Pat O'Donnell, the son who just wanted to do something special for his dad.

Go HERE and watch the segment. It is a wonderful 10 minutes. You will not regret it.

Oh, and grab some tissues first...

SO, we received an email from Paypal...hehehehe...surrrrrrrrre it was!

Check it out..if they had stopped after the first paragraph their credibility might not be in question.

It appears that after finishing the first paragraph the writer took a break and someone else sat down at the keyboard...someone with not quite as good a grasp on the English language...

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OK KIDDIES, what do you think we should do? Do we click on the link in the email??? Do we?
DO IT - DO IT
NO NO YOU WANT TO STAY AWAY FROM THAT LINK
SHUT UP DO-IT
YOU REALLY DO WANT TO STAY AWAY
WHAT A WIMP...USE THE DAMN LINK
YOU'LL BE SORRY...HEY STOP HITTING ME!
USE THE LINK - I'LL STOP HITTING YOU WHEN YOU BE QUIET - USE THE LINK

As you can see, we are in a quandary....ummmm quandary we like how our lips look when we say that word...can tell you that cause we went and looked in the bathroom mirror and said quandary quandary quandary....
Anyway...we have a situation...so you tell us, dear guests here on THE COUCH...do we use the link or do we not use the link...

Is it Friday? Why are we streaming?

So, did you hear about the rapper The Game - real name Jayceon Taylor... seems that after appearing on "Late Show With David Letterman", our hero hailed a livery cab...

THE COUCH NOTE: FYI...in NYC you have Medallion Cabs. Yes they are painted yellow, but the owner/drivers need to purchase a medallion from the Taxi and Limo Commission. These cost upwards of $500,000.00. They are put out to bid when the Commission decides they need to add to the fleet. Recently they put out for 124 Medallions for cabs that are Handicap Accessible...
Average winning bid? $514, 327.71 bringing in a cool $63,776,636.04 for NYC!
Anyway --livery cabs are non-medallion cabs that are technically illegal to operator or to even hail - you can get a ticket for hailing one! ... they will go to areas of NY that the Medallion cabs will not go to - which is illegal, but that is another story...OK, back to our original story

So after hailing the livery cab he is accused of telling the driver he was an undercover police officer and to not stop for any lights. The cab was stopped 13-blocks later and Mr. The Game was arrested.

The Game rejected a Manhattan prosecutor's offer Wednesday of a guilty plea for a sentence of time already served. The guilty plea would be for a misdemeanor charge in exchange for the time he spent waiting to go to court.

"Why should he plead guilty to bogus charges for a non-jail sentence if he's innocent," Jeffrey Lichtman, The Game's attorney said outside court. "And he is innocent. It's rare that I have a 100 percent innocent defendant, but this is one."

OK KIDDIES, someone remind me to hire this guy...sheesh, what do his other clients think of him now?

My question is do you want to go to court and have to defend yourself when you can just walk...a misdemeanor!!!!

This is going to come down to the word of the cabbie and the rapper....