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09/12/09 08:02 AM

By Pedregoso Rios
The blog was dark yesterday in rememberance of 911. Today, I just don't feel like doing the funny.

A Welcome Three-Day Reprieve

07/20/09 08:43 AM

By Pedregoso Rios
Thanks, one and all, for allowing me the three-day reprieve from official blog-posting and standings-updating. The Pitchfork Music Festival was outstanding, the batteries are all re-charged and I’m feeling good. And while we didn’t get to see anything as, uh, interesting as the lettuce bikinis that I posted Friday, you unfortunately didn’t get to see the many interesting things that were to be seen at Pitchfork, like the Cindy Lou Who of All Festival Goers being accompanied by the Asian MC Hammer. Hey, Asian MC Hammer, the 80s called and they want those pants back. (Or is it: Hey, Asian MC Hammer, the 00’s called and the don’t want those pants here?)

So anyways, glad to see the league’s still intact and still running like a top. But I do have one favor to ask: If you know of any SLPL pitchers that hit a home run this weekend, please e-mail me at pedregoso@santa-lechuga.com.

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Oh Great Saint Lettuce, I'm Taking Three Days Off

07/17/09 08:16 AM

By Pedregoso Rios
We here are the Official Blog of the Santa Lechuga Power League are taking a three-day break to enjoy the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. We’ll see you on Monday, when we’ll update all transactions (retroactively, if needed) and update the standings and stats.

To tide over our blog fans, we leave you with the following photos (the story follows the pictures). But first, great thanks to Sue Klinkhamer for first giving us this story. Kudos to the Great Saint Lettuce for making the lettuce leaf just so. Appreciation, it goes without saying, to whoever it was that dreamt up the lettuce leaf bikini. Props, certainly, to whoever it was that didn’t just dream it but actually created the lettuce leaf bikini. And, finally, special thanks to the good folks at PETA, who still haven’t learned that putting Playboy models in lettuce-leaf bikinis every year does nothing to reduce our meat consumption but does give us at least one annual blog post.

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Photos: Jayde Nicole and Jo Garcia, Playboy

From Roll Call
Heard on the Hill: It’s a Live One
July 16, 2009
By Emily Heil and Elizabeth Brotherton
Roll Call Staff

Veggie Dog Day Afternoon.
The oft-quoted adage that nobody reads Playboy for the articles could probably apply to this HOH item — because we’ll be impressed if anybody interested in the topic looks beyond the accompanying photo.

Playboy Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole and fellow playmate Jo Garcia came to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, joining People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals staffers, to hand out free veggie hot dogs to hungry Congressional staffers at the Independence Avenue entrance to the Rayburn House Office Building.

It’s an annual tradition for the animal rights group to serve the meat-free dogs to urge people to become vegetarian, and, keeping with tradition, Nicole and Garcia had stripped down to nothing but stiletto heels, a Playboy bunny necklace and bikinis made of strategically placed pieces of lettuce.

Their bikini tops were essentially bras made of lettuce (embellished with tiny rhinestones) while their bottoms consisted of a piece of lettuce covering their front and sheer, nylon fabric trimmed with green lace covering their bums. (Well, maybe “covering” isn’t the right word.)

“They’re wonderful representatives of the fact that going vegetarian is a great way to maintain a sexy, fit body,” PETA spokeswoman Ashley Byrne told HOH.

Vegetarianism: We’re sure that’s what all the googly-eyed, 20-something male staffers on hand were thinking about as they snapped pictures.

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One-Day Hiatus To Promote Lettuce Smoking

06/18/09 06:44 AM

By Pedregoso Rios
League VP of Creepy Pedregoso Rios has been called to testify in front of the House on lettuce smoking Friday. Because he will be in this nation’s capital, this blog--along with the standings and stats--will not be updated on Friday. We will return to our regularly scheduled programming Saturday. We are sorry that anyone may feel outrage by this inconvenience. (Note the non-apology apology. We’re not apologizing for actually providing the inconvenience; we’re apologizing that you may act like a spoiled brat to the inconvenience we’re providing. Can you tell I’ve been preparing to testify in front of a bunch of politicians?)

Meanwhile, with a tip of the ballcap to Kevin Klinkhamer for providing this link, check out this follow-up to the recent seagull incident.

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Put That In Your Pipe

06/13/09 07:07 AM

By Pedregoso Rios
Rep. Steve Buyer has been talking to a certain league official recently, as is evidenced by this clip (tip of the ballcap to Sue Klinkhamer):

In Other News...
League stats and standing, along with this blog, won’t be updated until later Sunday.

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Blog Vacay

05/23/09 08:45 AM

By Pedregoso Rios
This blog’s taking a vacation for the holiday weekend (unless something really fun hits) ... but we’ll keep the league standings and stats updated. (BTW, with inter-league play, isn’t it time for some more pitchers to hit some dongs? At this rate, we may end up having to put together an HOF-like Death Pool!)

The SLPL wishes you and yours a great Memorial Day weekend!