Spahn & Sain

First we'll use Spahn
then we'll use Sain
Then an off day
followed by rain
Back will come Spahn
followed by Sain
And followed
we hope
by two days of rain.

-- Gerald V. Hern


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Major League Baseball Advanced Media, i.e., MLB.com, the marketing arm of Major League Baseball, took one in the earflap yesterday as a judge ruled that MLB cannot copyright facts. I've mentioned the case before. MLBAM has been charging license fees to the companies that run fantasy baseball leagues for the use of its statistics, taking the ( Read more... )

Got up bright and early, despite having gone to sleep late. I may sleep on the couch tonight. I seem to be able to sleep better there than on the futon. Since I was up, I was able to make it over to Tire Pros just as they opened to drop off the punctured tire from the other day to be repaired. Stopped at the post office, and ran into my ex-landlady ( Read more... )

There is much joy in Boston as Pitiless Theo apparently decided to take pity on the Sox and return to work. In other Red Sox news, Kirk Cameron Bronson Arroyo signed an extension with the Sox well below his agent's expectations because he like playing in Boston. Scott Boras has no doubt now crossed Arroyo off his list of desirable clients. While ( Read more... )

Made the mistake of taking a nap just before dinner time, and now I can't fall asleep, even though I feel tired. Well, my eyes are tired, anyway. I've even been reading one of the most boring baseball books ever written, George Will's Men at Work, which normally puts me out within a page or two, but no such luck tonight ( Read more... )

I was browsing through this month's issue of Computer Gaming World when I chanced upon an ad featuring a picture of an Iowa class battleship being attacked by Japanese planes. Being a naval battles buff, I read the accompanying text, quoted here verbatim:

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Heh. Spend much of the day playing Civ III, then come up for air to check LJ, and find this - Civ IV Addicts Anonymous, courtesy of pinwiz. Very, very funny.

It was a long, mostly aggravating weekend with fabulous weather, apart from a brief sunshower Sunday evening. I rode the bike path twice. Saturday I did fourteen miles in the morning, and this evening I did nine. I'd planned to do more today, but I was aggravated, so I just did one out-and-back lap. It was, however, the first time I've actually ( Read more... )

It almost always happens after I visit Alex. We spend a good bit of time fiddling around with Flight Simulator, and I come home with the bug to fly. Granted, it's armchair flying, but that's a good thing, because my landings tend to be rough. I hadn't reinstalled FS 2002 since I replaced the main drive in my machine last year, but Friday night I ( Read more... )

I spent the majority of the weekend sitting in front of the computer like a lump rather than doing anything chorelike. Okay, I did do some straightening up in the basement, and finally got around to aligning my miter saw, but mostly I just played Civ III. It's one of those games that just grabs me. I start off figuring on playing for an hour in the ( Read more... )