Baseball Cards and Satan

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I’m a bit of a baseball geek.  I love the game, I love all the numbers, I love the strategy and the history and the personalities, and just about everything else about it.  I always have, and I suspect I always will.
The geekiness extends to collecting baseball cards.  [...]

Shoeless Joe Plays in Wilmington

I’m sure this is old news to some.  In fact, I know it’s old news because I just did a Google search that came up with hits from 2006 and earlier.  But it’s news to me, and this is my blog, so there.
The Royals have a minor league player named Ray Liotta.
No, he is not [...]

The Amazing Race – Week 10

Clearly, I’ve had the time to post a few things since the latest episode of The Amazing Race aired, yet I’m just now getting around to writing about it, and I think that tells you pretty much all you need to know.  This show just hasn’t done it for me this season, at least not [...]

Logic 101

This article made me scratch my head a little:
“Specter says he’s switching from GOP to Democrats“
Now, I don’t care what political party Arlen Specter belongs to, for a pair of reasons.  First, he doesn’t represent me.  Second, I’ve considered him to be a jackass ever since he decided to waste the government’s time and the taxpayers’ money on [...]

The Paul Project: Weigh-In #2

Still no real improvement on the exercise front, but now I know that has to be a more integrated part of all this, because this week I ate even fewer total calories but lost less weight.  Clearly, the first week involved my body getting rid of a lot of excess junk as it adjusted to [...]

Strange Announcers

Every year, we lay out the money for the MLB Extra Innings Package on our cable system so I can get my Red Sox fix.  The way that works, they generally show only the home team’s broadcast, so we regularly have no option but to listen to the other team’s announcing team when the Red Sox are on the [...]

Pitchers as Pinch Hitters

On a baseball note, I highly recommend the great article about Zack Greinke that Joe Posnanski wrote for this week’s Sports Illustrated.  It captures the Greinke mystique perfectly, and paints a fabulous portrait of the guy. 
One thing the article reminded me of was Greinke’s love of hitting.  He truly is a very good hitter, and [...]

Flyover Flap

I know I’ve bashed around some stupid actions by Republicans a couple of times in recent weeks, so it’s only fair that I give equal time when I see the Democrats do something equally stupid, just to prove I really don’t lean one way or the other.  I’m equally offended by moronic behavior from either party.  To that [...]

Definite Maybe

According to the Associated Press, the leader of Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari, has confirmed, without any doubt whatsoever, that there’s a definite possibility that Osama bin Laden may no longer be alive.  He goes on to make it clear that there is no proof of any kind that bin Laden is either alive or dead, and [...]

Déjà Vu?

I’m not sure if this qualifies as a case a déjà vu or not, you be the judge.  Maybe it just falls under the general “weird stuff happens” category.
Last week, I read Of Mice and Men, I think for the first time.  I’m so familiar with the story that it’s hard to remember if I read [...]