Post-flight update...about several hours late.
Reason number one Justin Masterson should be on that flight: Jed Lowrie cannot Rick Roll the entire team by himself, even if he does find a way to hack the airplane's entertainment system so that little Ricks appear on every television screen. It's just something they have to do together.
Okay, so somehow I survived that drive again. It's certainly not anything compared to that plane flight, but it's a pain. Anyway, I'm in my basement and I'm not dead. Yay.
Rob Bradford, who was on that plane flight, has blogged about it for us, and he'll keep updating us from Japan as the trip goes on. That aside, I don't have much - except for this gratuitous mention of Yu Darvish: Johnson said he just got finished seeing the next Daisuke Matsuzaka, a 6-foot-5, 20-year-old pitcher by the name of Yu Darvish. He is just 21 years old, pitches for the Nippon Ham Fighters, and has MLB teams drooling at the prospects of finding a way to get this kid into the posting process. Canyon of Heroes has a great write-up on Darvish, who is half Iranian.
Click the link and read the bit from Canyon of Heroes. It's pretty interesting. I actually mentioned Yu Darvish once here, I think, but Canyon of Heroes did a much better job of covering the kid.
In other news, besides going to a hibachi restaurant for dinner in honor of the safe arrival of the Red Sox and Athletics in Japan, I was reunited with a computer program from my childhood, Storybook Weaver Deluxe. Yes, it's a MECC product. Why do you ask? Anyway, I found out that I can now record my voice to use on the program as background music. Since I don't have a particularly lovely one, I chose to record Rick Astley's instead. It worked, which made me happy. I honestly suggest getting Storybook Weaver just for the text-to-speech option - I generally write very inappropriate things with it and then have it read them back to me in a very monotonic, robotic voice, which makes me giggle like a stoner. Is this program worth the camp? Oh, it's worth it. It's worth it in spades.
(And speaking of spades, according to Bradford Paps actually won the card game. Wow, that's a surprise!)
EDIT: UCLA and Stanford breezed through in the NCAA tournament (UCLA won by a score of 70-29 - holy shit!) - but USC was upset. And to think everyone had them as a sleeper pick...
(eliminates Ian Kennedy from her bracket; Jed [Stanford] is still in)
EDIT 2: I just downloaded an Apple II emulator and the original Oregon Trail to my computer. Now I can even play it offline! Woohoo! (Expect a live-blog by the end of tomorrow...)
Okay, so somehow I survived that drive again. It's certainly not anything compared to that plane flight, but it's a pain. Anyway, I'm in my basement and I'm not dead. Yay.
Rob Bradford, who was on that plane flight, has blogged about it for us, and he'll keep updating us from Japan as the trip goes on. That aside, I don't have much - except for this gratuitous mention of Yu Darvish: Johnson said he just got finished seeing the next Daisuke Matsuzaka, a 6-foot-5, 20-year-old pitcher by the name of Yu Darvish. He is just 21 years old, pitches for the Nippon Ham Fighters, and has MLB teams drooling at the prospects of finding a way to get this kid into the posting process. Canyon of Heroes has a great write-up on Darvish, who is half Iranian.
Click the link and read the bit from Canyon of Heroes. It's pretty interesting. I actually mentioned Yu Darvish once here, I think, but Canyon of Heroes did a much better job of covering the kid.
In other news, besides going to a hibachi restaurant for dinner in honor of the safe arrival of the Red Sox and Athletics in Japan, I was reunited with a computer program from my childhood, Storybook Weaver Deluxe. Yes, it's a MECC product. Why do you ask? Anyway, I found out that I can now record my voice to use on the program as background music. Since I don't have a particularly lovely one, I chose to record Rick Astley's instead. It worked, which made me happy. I honestly suggest getting Storybook Weaver just for the text-to-speech option - I generally write very inappropriate things with it and then have it read them back to me in a very monotonic, robotic voice, which makes me giggle like a stoner. Is this program worth the camp? Oh, it's worth it. It's worth it in spades.
(And speaking of spades, according to Bradford Paps actually won the card game. Wow, that's a surprise!)
EDIT: UCLA and Stanford breezed through in the NCAA tournament (UCLA won by a score of 70-29 - holy shit!) - but USC was upset. And to think everyone had them as a sleeper pick...
(eliminates Ian Kennedy from her bracket; Jed [Stanford] is still in)
EDIT 2: I just downloaded an Apple II emulator and the original Oregon Trail to my computer. Now I can even play it offline! Woohoo! (Expect a live-blog by the end of tomorrow...)