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From Daddy's little Angel...
...to this beautiful woman in the flutter of a hummingbird's wing.
The most painful part is moving away from the center of her life. That place is taken by another man. Rightfully so but wrenching nonetheless.
I'm going to rate the possibility of the Seattle Seahawks trading Shawn Alexander on draft day as 60%. If they can find both a taker for the flamboyant runner and position themselves to pick up a top replacement in the first round, they will take the leap.
Why trade one of the most touchdown-and-yardage producing running backs in the league? It isn't because he's a prima donna -- that comes with the territory. Heck, you want players who want the spotlight. No, it is more about the plays where he isn't featured.
When you watch him run you realize that Alexander is only interested in the big gains. When holes close up he hits the turf instead of pounding for two yards. Unless, of course, the goal line is on the other side of those two yards then the glory hound can't be stopped.
See, sometimes two yards in the middle of the field are important to keep a drive alive but he is very uninterested in those kinds of yards. If he had been, the whining about missing the rushing title by one yard would have been unnecessary.
I like what Alexander has done for the team but if they can get a hard worker (who will pass protect as well) then the Seahawks should pull the trigger.
The Blogfather points us to this interesting article on a juvenile deliquent asteroid that may crash the party here on earth.
This is the story Armageddon should have been. Defeating rogue asteroids is the work of decades, not weeks. A close call is hundreds-of-thousands of miles not glancing off the atmosphere at physics-defying angles.
If you think the story can't be told on film, look at Apollo 13, the real-life story which is being honored today. A skillful storyteller can keep your heart pounding even when you know how it will turn out in the end.
I guess the Spousal Unit and I will have to put this one on the to-do list. Nobody else will tackle it, I'm sure.
UPDATE: fixed broken link to the original article.