Last weekend I joined my friend Tom Z on his annual pilgrimage to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. I'd never been before, despite it being no more than 15 miles from my brothers' farm. Tom goes every year for a F2F with his online fantasy baseball buddies. Now I know how civilians feel at b.org gatherings ( Read more... )

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...the man who hit the Shot Heard 'Round The World.

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By all accounts he was a class act, and became long-time friends with the man who gave up the homer, Ralph Branca. One interesting thing about that game is that if Thomson hadn't hit the home run and the Dodgers had won, he likely would've been the goat for having earlier tried to stretch a ( Read more... )

Easter weekend had terrific weather, but I was down in Jersey so didn't get a chance to ride at all. I did get to play a little wiffle ball with a niece and a couple of nephews. It's the first time I've swung any kind of bat in almost a decade, yet I'm the only one of the crew who actually hit the ball. Apparently none of them have their uncle's ( Read more... )

I was shocked to find daffodils in full bloom in the bed alongside the house. I thought it was a bit early, given that the crocuses had only popped a few days before, so I checked my Livejournal archives. Last year they didn't bloom until around April 12th. That's some kind of early blooms. Time to think about starting some tomato seedlings ( Read more... )

Snagged from Craig Calcaterra...

Bored Farmers or is Albert Pujols really a visitor from another planet with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men?

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Rode again today, although not as far. The reasons I cut it short were that my legs were still protesting the sudden onset of exercise yesterday, the numerous moving speed bumps the good weather brought out in spades, and did I mention that my legs were really tired? The most annoying of the speed bumps were the large clutches of people who didn't ( Read more... )

Behind the bag, gets through Buckner Holliday...The Dodgers and Cardinals have played two pretty exciting games in the Divisional Series to this point. The first game, while hardly an artistic triumph, was exciting just because so many men from both teams were on base at any point in the game (30 men left on base between the two teams), so that ( Read more... )

Catching up on a the first three of a long list...

Passage at Arms - Glen Cook

( The vastness of space can neither be described nor overstated. )

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