another favor, please (help my neighborhood)
10 May 2006
I need you guys to vote for something please. But it’s actually a really good cause.
I talk about how I grew up in the means streets of South Philly a lot. This is my chance to do my part to help make those mean streets a little nicer looking.
The abridged version (because I know you have a short attention span):
A twelve year old girl named Brittany from my neighborhood entered a contest sponsored by Briggs & Stratton. According to the email I received from a friend, Briggs & Stratton sponsored a contest in which they asked Little League players to write an essay describing why they thought their baseball field should be selected for renovation.
The good news: Brittany‘s essay was selected as regional winner and the field in which I played ball on as a kid won a $5000 check. Sweet!
Now, the field could receive a $20,000 check if her essay receives the most votes on the Briggs & Stratton website.
While I’m not good at raising money or playing baseball, getting internet votes is something I can help with.
Please go to the contest website. There, you can find Brittany‘s essay in the left column, second from the bottom (Brittany D. from Philadelphia). You can read her essay, but you don’t have to – just vote. All you need is an email address. Note: you can only vote once per email address. If you have multiple email addresses (I have 7), feel free to use them, just don’t duplicate. I do not know when the voting ends, so please vote right away.
Conversely, if you pass this on to your friends, I will kiss you on the mouth. This is not a joke. Forward this on to ten friends, send me the email showing that you’ve forwarded it on, and I will come to your home and kiss you on the mouth. If you forward it to more than ten, things might get a little friskey. Remember, it’s Brittany D., from Philadelphia at http://briggsdiamondsintherough.com/.
So please, take a moment to vote and help Brittany and the neighborhood out with this. Trust me, this field is shit and really does need a lot of work. Hell, if I were able to play on a clean and level playing field growing up, I would probably be in the Seattle Mariner’s system right now. Instead, I write poop jokes to you from a tiny bedroom in NYC. Obviously, it worked out in the end, but let’s make sure other neighborhood kids don’t face a similar fate as I have. This would really help to improve the neighborhood, where resources like $20,000 are hard to come by. And the benefits would be directly passed on to the kids.
Thank you for your support on this. Seriously.
I talk about how I grew up in the means streets of South Philly a lot. This is my chance to do my part to help make those mean streets a little nicer looking.
The abridged version (because I know you have a short attention span):
A twelve year old girl named Brittany from my neighborhood entered a contest sponsored by Briggs & Stratton. According to the email I received from a friend, Briggs & Stratton sponsored a contest in which they asked Little League players to write an essay describing why they thought their baseball field should be selected for renovation.
The good news: Brittany‘s essay was selected as regional winner and the field in which I played ball on as a kid won a $5000 check. Sweet!
Now, the field could receive a $20,000 check if her essay receives the most votes on the Briggs & Stratton website.
While I’m not good at raising money or playing baseball, getting internet votes is something I can help with.
Please go to the contest website. There, you can find Brittany‘s essay in the left column, second from the bottom (Brittany D. from Philadelphia). You can read her essay, but you don’t have to – just vote. All you need is an email address. Note: you can only vote once per email address. If you have multiple email addresses (I have 7), feel free to use them, just don’t duplicate. I do not know when the voting ends, so please vote right away.
Conversely, if you pass this on to your friends, I will kiss you on the mouth. This is not a joke. Forward this on to ten friends, send me the email showing that you’ve forwarded it on, and I will come to your home and kiss you on the mouth. If you forward it to more than ten, things might get a little friskey. Remember, it’s Brittany D., from Philadelphia at http://briggsdiamondsintherough.com/.
So please, take a moment to vote and help Brittany and the neighborhood out with this. Trust me, this field is shit and really does need a lot of work. Hell, if I were able to play on a clean and level playing field growing up, I would probably be in the Seattle Mariner’s system right now. Instead, I write poop jokes to you from a tiny bedroom in NYC. Obviously, it worked out in the end, but let’s make sure other neighborhood kids don’t face a similar fate as I have. This would really help to improve the neighborhood, where resources like $20,000 are hard to come by. And the benefits would be directly passed on to the kids.
Thank you for your support on this. Seriously.
