38 Pitches

Well, my Wikipedia deletion challenge had a satisfying conclusion. Turned out the guy running the deletion was riding someone else's deletion and he (the new guy) was ok. I'm glad he took it over, it was easy to get a lot out, a lot of Wikidiscussion, and the articles in question are more or less semiprotected now.

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Curt Schilling's blog, 38 Pitches, http://38pitches.com is pretty good writing. I thought I would write a list of 38 red fluids that could have substituted for his blood, vis a vis the Cooperstown One Million Dollar ALS Charity Challenge.

Maybe Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Tom Brady, Alice Cooper, Ernie Els and a bunch more could play some golf for the cause.

Hemoglobin (pictured) works something like a squeezebox, from what I read, alternately either accepting or releasing some oxygen molecules, that bind to iron molecules somewhere inside that square ring molecule format. When the blood stain, in this case, breaks down, the hemoglobin decays and one is left w/ some iron molecules that combine w/oxygen in the air, forming a characteristic dark brown rust stain or bloodstain.

List:

Ketchup
Spaghetti Sauce
Pizza Sauce
Tomato Juice
V-8
Hot sauce
Dutch Boy Paint
Cutex Nail Polish
Lipstick
Red food coloring
Red Wine
Someone else's blood
Red ochre
Melted red popsicle
BBQ sauce
Cinnabar
Killian's Irish Red
Melted red plastic
Pomegranate juice
Hawaiian Punch
Blood orange juice
Red grapefruit juice
Plum juice
Plum wine
Strawberry juice
Boone's Farm Strawberry Wine
Cranberry juice
Cranapple
Crangrape
Cranorange
Cranberry Cocktail
Red seaweed extract
Red clam sauce
Clamato
Manhattan clam chowder
Tomato soup
Red Dye No. 2
Iron oxide

Actually, technically, more or less, it sort of is iron oxide, at least quantumphotodynamically so; it depends on the quasiparticle array involved in the reflected light. Click Wikipedia: Hemoglobin#Degradation of hemoglobin in vertebrate animals Go ahead and check out "quasiparticle", too; I think its either the plasmitrons or the plasmons. Or something. Why are red things red? Go figure.