2003 Kentucky Bourbon Festival Pictures

Starting on Wednesday of next week, Carrie and I are going on vacation in Kentucky. We play on going to visit Mammoth Cave, and then after than The Kentucky Bourbon Festival in Bardstown. we will be able to see an awesome natural wonder, then hopefully tour a coulple of Bourbon Distilleries and have some good booze.

That reminded me of my trip to the bourbon festival in 2003, so I though I would share with you some pics of two distilleries we probably will not see this year.


FOUR ROSES

(The Front Facade.)(The Laboratory Door, OOOOOOOooo. . .)(The White Dog at Four Roses.)

Buffalo Trace Distilley

(The Warehouse Where Blanton's Is Aged.)(Inside The Warehouse.)(A Special Tasting, Right From The Bottle.)(Hand Bottling Buffalo Trace Bourbon.)(Buffalo Trace's First Bourbon Barrel.)

All I know is I cannot wait for Wednesday!!

TomC

Wake Get's First ND, Buchholz Great In Relief, Sox Win!

(Big Papi Goes Deep Again!)
(Buchholz Looked Great!)

Great bullpen work overcame Tim Wakefield's shaky start, and a timely pinch hit plated the teams winning run, as the Red Sox clipped the Orioles 7-6 Thursday night in Baltimore. Tim Wakefield (3 2/3 Innings 8 Hits 6 Earned Runs) was not effective and worked to his first No Decision of the year, but was bolstered by 6 1/3 scoreless innings by the Sox bullpen, the highlight of that being Clay Buchholz first appearance since his no hitter on Saturday. The kid went 3 innings allowing one run and walking 2, striking out 3, to pick up his third win of the season. The Captain, Jason Varitek, came up with a late clutch hit the second night in a row, this time securing in a win by singling in Coco Crisp from second. Papelbon slammed the door in the 9th for his 34th save. With the win the Sox moved to 6 1/2 games in front of the idle Yankees.

Tomorrow night the Red Sox send out Jon lester to face off against the O's Daniel Cabrera.

GO SOX!

TomC

David Ortiz Is Having A Down Year. . .

Doesn't everyone wish their "bad" years were like this (stats current after 09/06/07):

.432 OBP (1st in AL),
100 runs (6th),
96 RBI (9th),
.317 AVG (9th),
275 Total bases (7th),
.577 SLG (4th),
1.008 OPS (4th),
41 Doubles (4th)
27 HR (4th),
95 BB (1st),
69 XBH (4th)


Top 10 in a slew of offensive categories, that seems quite dominant to me. And this is supposed to be a "down" year for him.

TomC