Sunday, July 09, 2006

He's Not A Vegetable, He's Mr. Celery


If I were to say sports mascots, names of some of the greats like The Phillie Phanatic, The San Diego Chicken, Wally the Green Monster, and Youppi may come to mind. But that is a disservice to perhaps the greatest mascot in sprts, Mr. Celery. Mr. Celery is a mascot for the Class A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, the Wilmington Blue Rocks. Though he may be regulated to the minors, he provides major league entertainment.

Mr Celery's job is to celebrate each time the Blue Rocks score a run and to mosh with the fans sitting around home plate. But what does a stalk of Celery have to do with a team called the Blue Rocks, the city of Wilmington, or even baseball for that matter? Absolutely nothing. That is what makes Mr. Celery the envy of mascots the world over, he is so cool he does not have to make sense, and he's entertaining too.

So next time your driving on I 95 through Wilmington Delaware, and you see the lights on in the stadium, take a detour. Get off the MLK exit, and enjoy the cheap ticket prices, the reasonable food prices, the good selection of beer and catch a game and allow Mr. Celery to entertain you, trust me you won't regret it.

Friday, July 07, 2006

It Begins

After talking about starting a blog, I finally decided the time was right. So why name it the Outhouse Times Picayune, well for those familiar with the Simpsons they may get the reference, but it goes far beyond that. When you think of outhouses, you think of rednecks, hilljacks, hillbillies, sons of the south, and West Virginia, but most of all you think of crap. As for the Times Picayune part of the title, it gives the blog a credible sounding name, much like the New Orleans Times Picayune. No one respects New Orleans, in fact most of it no longer exists, but they do respect the name Times Picayune. In essence the title refers to all the crap thats fit to print, and even some that isn't. However, unlike the New Orleans Times Picayune, this site is totally based on opinion, namely mine.

So stay tuned over the coming days, weeks, months, and even years for more crap than you can handle, and for some readers that will be quite a lot. Thanks for being a valued reader, and remember the only opinion that really matters here is mine.