i know enough about the transmission of viewpoints to know that it isn't nearly so much the strength of the viewpoint as the strength of the source of the viewpoint that matters. i'm used to having minority viewpoints on a lot of things (including, often, fairly trivial things). i'm not an evangelist. but setting aside that it doesn't fit my ( Read more... )

the espn recap of yesterday's tigers game mentioned those brief snow showers:

"after fielder's tiebreaking single [in the 8th], a light snow shower passed briefly over comerica park. there also was a light snow shower in the fifth inning."

the attendance at the tigers home game on 4/7 was 44,710 (the largest in franchise history for the second game of the season [espn adds the caveat: since at least 1947], a day when the attendance usually drops off, the third-largest non-opening day crowd in comerica park's 13-year existence, and just a few hundred shy of thursday's opening day ( Read more... )

"opening day will dawn thursday afternoon. and in detroit, it dawns in a big way ( Read more... )