Yeah. This dude makes those beat box guys from the 1980′s rap scene wanna go back to the shaolin temple and work on their kung fu.

It’s… just amazing.

Enjoy.

On Wednesday, June 3rd, umpire Jim Joyce blew a call late in the 9th inning and cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Gallaraga a perfect game.

For you non-baseball fans out there, that’s a really big deal. Like, there have only been 20 perfect games in the 100+ years of Major League Baseball’s history. It’s something a pitcher dreams of his whole life.

The play was not a close one. It was just a bad call. Human error. A biff.

And because MLB doesn’t use instant replay, the word of the umpire stands. Period. The manager can kick up dirt, the fans can scream their heads off and the players can spit their tobacco juice on his shoes, but there is no reversing the call.

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Hey gang,

Having a bit of a crazy week so I don’t have too much time to post.

But this past Saturday was probably my favorite day of the year so far. We baptized 49 people in the waters of the Long Island Sound.

49 people who are finding their role in God’s amazing story and taking that next step in their faith: publicly declaring to the world that they belong to Christ and they don’t care who knows it!!

Honestly. This moves me in ways I can’t even bring words to. Seeing lives change… it’s… it’s just ADDICTING!!! I so love seeing people getting connected to the God that made them. We’ve baptized literally hundreds of people in our church’s 5 summers and it just never ever ever gets old.

Congrats to all of you who stepped up and did some business with God on Saturday.

Enjoy this amazing pic with the epic cloud bank custom made just for us!! Click to enlarge.

PS – If you missed our service and still want to get baptized, you’re not the only one and it’s not too late. Message me and we’ll set something up.

PPS – Photo credit: Tyler Cordaro, Mad Scientist.

This week’s burst of goodness from The Right Thing is just something ridiculous and awesome that someone emailed me this week.

I get a lot of stuff like that, but very little of it is blogworthy.

But first, a couple of interesting stats about The Right Thing, delivered to me recently by my man Tyler at Fresh Tech Concepts. He’s the genius behind this page’s design.

1 – Since March of this year, 1,040 different people visited this site. That’s 1,040 unique visitors!! Pretty cool, no?
2 – Most of them didn’t leave a comment. They are chumps. Leave a comment or become a chump. Those are your choices in life.
3 – Of those 1,040 visitors, 14 of them accessed this blog via a dial-up internet connection. Wow. Just… wow. You people are dedicated!!
4 – Of course most traffic to the site is generated from the U.S. and Canada, but there were also repeat visits from readers in Austria, The UK, Belgium, Australia, Russia, The Netherlands and Japan!!!! That just blows my mind. A quick message to all my international readers: You guys rock!! Thanks for tuning in.

And thanks to all of you for checking out my scrawlings.

Now, do enjoy this little piece of silliness spliced together by some guy with WAY way too much time on his hands.

It’s the marriage of a really annoying song by an “artist” called Kesha, with some vintage Star Trek clips. Sounds ridiculous, I know. But somehow, it just works.

Hasta.

Oh – the lyrics are nasty. Be warned.