Welcome to Beef Week here at the Gurgling Cod. Through no fault of his own, the Cod is feeling more beefish than beefy, mainly for reasons too tedious to discuss, and also because of the Tampa Bay "It's a shame about the" Devil Rays. I don't know what a Devil Ray is, but it is evidently made out of beef. Evidently, the mission statement in the Tampa Bay GM's office is twofold 1) To suck 2) To throw at Red Sox. Who can forget the already-ejected Gerald "Ice" Williams returning to the field in 2000, in a game when 8 Devil Raays (I think the triple-a Raaays is giving too much credit) were ejected (Petey almost no-hit them, too.) When Boston Dirt Dogs seems restrained, you know you are dealing with a bunch of no-account, cellar-bound cowtown jackasses who will be scheduling tee times for October before you dust off your white bucks. To recap: Rays throw at Manny: he goes yard. Rays throw at Papi: benches clear, when order is restored, he also goes yard. And, Jay Payton, replacing the ejected Trot Nixon: yard. Pinella is a freaking chessmaster. Nixon was ejected for his effort to share some home truths with a Raay:
Brazelton, Nixon said, was yelling at him to stay away from Carter, and then stuck his finger in his left eye. It was the same eye, he said, that his toddler, Chase, accidentally hit two years ago, scratching his cornea, leaving him with blurred vision, and causing him to go to then-manager Grady Little and say he couldn't play. "I wasn't comfortable with my vision for almost three weeks," he said. "So whether he intended to do it or not, that doesn't matter.
"I think Mr. Reed thought I was threatening [Brazelton] or whatever, but I wasn't threatening him. I was just giving him information."
That information wasn't Kathryn Nixon's recipe for peach cobbler.
"What ignited me the most is that he was grabbing at my face," Nixon said. "I was giving him information about what I'd do to him if he's going to do some crap like that, you know."
I don't have Kathryn Nixon's recipe, but here is a delicious peach cobbler, direct to you via the holler:
If using fresh peaches (always best), then:
2 bags of peaches
1 cup of sugar
1/2 stick butter or margarine
Combine peaches, sugar, butter in pan over low heat and cook slowly bringing to a low boil. Meanwhile, combine the ingredients below to make the batter and pour into a baking dish. Once the peaches have reached a low boil, pour on top of the batter (crust will rise through the fruit as the dish cooks).Bake at 350 until done.
1 + 1/2 cups Martha White self-rising flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 stick butter
Milk (sufficient to create a thick cake-like batter)
NOTE: If using canned peaches, eliminate the cup of sugar and reduce the
butter to 1/4 stick.
I find this cobbler tastes best if you listen to jazz while you cook and eat it.
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