Water banned from MLB dugouts

We have posted plenty of criticism here of the bottled water craze: it is too expensive, it creates waste, etc. But it seems strange to ban bottled water from baseball dugouts at Major League Baseball games!

White Sox clubhouse personnel said if players take bottled water onto the bench, all the bottled water will be removed from the clubhouse as punishment.

So remember, the biggest threat to baseball isn't steroids or HGH or amphetamines or runaway ticket prices or four-hour games.

It's water.

Hopefully, they allow the water if it is delivered in gatorade-logoed cups instead. {{Roll eyes.}

Weapons of Mass Cuteness... Oh Yeah, And Destruction

File this one under "Nomad's Least Favorite Stores, Because If I Wrote A Story About Them It'd Be Called A Cheap Trick". Still, who can resist a flaming squirrel? Not me.

"The squirrel chewed through the wire, was set on fire, fell down directly to where the car was," Tony Millar said. "The squirrel, on fire, slid into the engine compartment and blew up the car.
"They're always coming around here, chewing through the garbage," he added.

Tony Millar says his sister was fully insured.

Somewhere, Dreamworks is wondering if they suddenly have the plot for their next animated feature.