A Modest Achievement

As we've had cause to mention here previously, the GRBG doubles as a world repository of knowledge regarding Torkies. However, we here at the GRBG have recently been made aware of a form of Torkie admiration which we previously would have assumed did not exist anywhere on God's earth.

Like many website owners, we have a little bit of embedded code that lets us see where visitors come from, and sometimes see what keywords they searched on Google in order to find us. Upon checking the log this morning, we were informed that at 2PM New York time yesterday, a visitor from Islamabad, Pakistan came upon the GRBG by googling the phrase "torkie big girls sex".

Our immediate reaction was a desire to thank that brave CIA operative for keeping our nation safe. But, realizing that we don't really know enough about the sexual mores of urban Pakistan to rule out the possibility that this was an honest internet cafe query, we decided to keep an open mind. Either way, welcome to the GRBG! All are safe and loved here. Except you, that is, because that shit is effed the christ up.

Most importantly, though, thanks for the team name.

Appreciate Her! (Go, Decatur!)

Introducing my entry in our fantasy league, the Decatur Commies, who will no doubt follow in the footsteps of their proud forebearers by finishing 5th this year. By order of the team owner (i.e., me), home runs hit by Commies this season will be celebrated by the singing (in rounds, if possible) of Sufjan Stevens' "Decatur, Or Round of Applause for Your Stepmother," which I expect will quickly supplant "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" as America's hardball anthem.
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The real-life Commies (which was short for "Commodores"--thus the sweet Thurston Howell cap on the logo) played intermittently in the Indiana-Iowa-Illinois League, the Missouri-Ohio Valley League, and the Midwest League from 1901-1974, winning 4 league titles in that span.
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The team boasts exactly one Hall-of-Fame alumni in Carl Hubbell, who played one season in Decatur before escaping to the New York Baseball Giants.
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That has a nice symmetry with my team, which has played against an array of owners in the Wankdorf League at this point, and which also boasts exactly one future HoFer in Johan Santana, along with a bunch of guys who in different circumstances would have been semi-pro cornshuckers rather than pro ballplayers.
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Anyway, it will be interesting to see if fantasy teams named after defunct Triple-I League affiliates spreads through our league this year the way that teams named after random 1980s comedy characters dominated last season. For those interested, the Bloomington Bloomers team name is still available at press time!