Jury Duty: Doing my civic duty

Well, this week I did my civic duty and went to Jury Duty. The Moore Justice Center in Viera is the only county courthouse in Brevard county where you only have to go for one day if called.

I was fortunate enough to get put on a jury panel and get picked to sit on a criminal trial. Total time missing work - 2 days. Total time for trial and deliberation - 5 hours.

From 2:00 PM to 5:15 PM on Wednesday, we heard all the witnesses and both the prosecutor and defence attorney rested their cases. We started up with closing arguments at 10:30 AM and finished with deliberation at 11:45 AM. The verdict was guilty. The judge excused the jury as she sentence the criminal to 90 days in the county jail, followed by 9 months probation and court ordered AA meetings that the judge is sure he will not attend.

Lets Go Buccos!!!

Ok. Enough of me bad mouthing the Pittsburgh Pirates management.

The season is not over yet.

Lets go Bucs! Lets go Bucs! Lets go Bucs! Lets go Bucs! Lets go Bucs!

Facebook

I have finally created a Facebook account (a few weeks ago) and it has been most interesting. I have been out of high school for 25 years now and I haven't spoken to anyone I graduated with in about 16 years. I have now reconnected with quite a few of my school mates. One even lives here in Florida and we have had lunch a couple times already.

Thank God for the Steelers and the Penguins

So far this season, the Pittsburgh Pirates have traded all but three of their opening day starting position players and only one from last year. Nothing against the new guys - McCutchen is playing well and I do like Jones bat. If I were a betting man, which I'm not, I would bet that Ryan Doumit will be out of Pittsburgh before the deadline tomorrow.

Traded or gone since last season:

Good luck Freddy, Jack, Adam (traded again to Atlanta), John, Tommy, Ian, Nate, Nyger, Xavier, Jose, Ronny, and Jason.

My cousin thinks it is all a new marketing program by the Pirates to sell more programs at the stadium. I would not doubt it one bit.

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Pittsburgh Pirate management is at it again

Well, today the idiots in charge of the Pittsburgh Pirates traded Adam LaRoche to Boston. It appears to me that the Pirates are a feeder club for Boston. I certainly hope that the Pirates get World Series rings this year if Boston happens to win it all.