Four Your Consumption

As our forefathers provided us with the liberty we currently enjoy and celebrate on July 4th we will forego with the foreplay (something Grage hasn’t seen in a while either) and embark on a journey to enjoy the number 4.

We could start chronologically and recognize that Georgia became the fourth state of the union on January 2, 1788, beating Connecticut by a week. Or we could go back a few months and revisit our draft. Albert Pujols was the fourth player (and most expensive) drafted. Carlos Delgado was the first player that took four minutes to draft. Dustin Hermanson (who?) was the first player drafted for .04. The fourth round took 40 minutes to complete. All of which led to the teams we currently have and The Kenndoza Line being in fourth place.

To be a little less geocentric we could look to the heavens and realize that Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. Mars gave the name to March, but April is the fourth month of the year.

Going back to a baseball theme, the Lambchops were the fourth owner (of the current twelve) to join the CFCL but the Splinters and Kenndoza Line are in their fourth year with the CFCL. Four of our owners are single and a fourth of our owners live outside of Illinois. Is it fore-shadowing that the fourth letter in the alphabet is “D” (as in Dem Rebels) and that Mars is known as the Red Planet (Red being the main uniform color of Dem Rebels) that Dem Rebels are on their way to the next fourth of what will hopefully someday be four CFCL Championships? Or has their owner simply had a fourth of vodka to drink?

Lou Gehrig, known as the Iron Horse (Iron being in Period 4 on the Periodic Chart and horse being a four legged equine) and Don Zimmer (who managed the Cubs for four years) both wore number 4.

Keep in mind the reason for the season, our country is celebrating its 231st year of freedom and when you plug that into this mathematical for-mula it reads 2(3-1) = 4!

While I wish each of you a Happy 4th of July I also wish a safe one for you as well. Please come back with four fingers (and a thumb) on each hand.

As we begin our holiday celebration I send you off with the appropriate warning: “FORE!”