Best mullet in the major leagues, bar none. Welcome back Hank. And yeah, Blanco's had at least the barbed wire tattoo on his arm at least since he signed with the Cubs, probably much, much longer than that.
http://houston.astros.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20070820&content_id=2160277&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou I eagerly await the inevitable YouTubing of this. (Is this Baseball? Social? I dunno.)
There's a significant population of expatriate American families living in Saudi Arabia working for oil companies and the like. Most of these white kids playing for Saudi Arabia are kids from those families.
The radar makes it look like there isn't much rain left; one more band of heavy stuff and then it dries out some. Too bad Zambrano can't continue to pitch.