The mayor of Cincinnati recently threw out the first pitch before a Reds baseball game. It was…shall we say…not good. The mayor later went on Jimmy Kimmel Live to discuss this but, alas, the damage was done. Kimmel’s staff put a hilarious attack ad together and also gave the mayor a chance for redemption. The do-over pitch was…well…you’ll have to watch.

Bad Pitch

Interview with Jimmy Kimmel

The Do-Over

Links for feed readers:
Bad pitch:
http://www.mypartypost.com/watchflashbig/5138/Cincinnati_Mayor_First_Pitch

Interview with Jimmy Kimmel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtFGLbsidZc

The do-over:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjwFnfEVdgQ

There are several new people checking out MicroExplosion right now due to my post on ChurchMarketingSucks.com yesterday. As a way of thanking you for checking out this blog, I’d like to give you a free slice of Pi from mysliceofPi.com. So here’s the deal, the first ten new MicroExplosion readers to email me (fourthbill@gmail.com) with a Pi request will get a code for a free slice of Pi.

If you’ve been a faithful reader for a while I don’t want to leave you out either, so the first five regulars to email me will get a free code also.

Everyone be sure to note if you’re a new reader or a regular. Also, if anyone includes a really good Pidea we’ll post it to the list and I’ll give you another free Pi code.

Every so often I get asked by new bloggers how to change the size of the YouTube video when they want to embed a particular video into their blog. It’s actually very simple and takes less than 10 seconds once you know what to do. Here’s all you need to do:

1. Find the “embed” code on the video you are choosing. It’s just to the right of the video.
2. Click the embed link once and the whole line will highlight.
3. Copy it (Ctrl+C) and paste (Ctrl+V) into your blog post. Your code will look like this:

4. Change the size within the code to adjust the width and height and make it fit your specifications. For this blog I change the width to 400 and height to 325 so my code looks like this before I post any videos here:

5. Note: The video width and height appear twice in the code so make sure you change them in both places.
6. Post and done.

See, wasn’t that easy? I should note that this basic premise works with most embeddable links at other video sites so this should help you out with just about any of them.