It’s been a pretty tough summer for us Minnesota Twins fans. We got spoiled just enough to start complaining that the team was only winning divisions, not getting deep into the playoffs. Expectations thus raised, we naturally got hit with a season in which there were so many injuries that half the time it felt … More 600 and 3000
August 15, 1057 – Macbeth, King of the Scots, dies Seventeen years to the day after King Duncan I died while leading the fight against the forces of Macbeth, the successor himself was mortally wounded in battle. For an update, let’s go to The Pietist Schoolman’s special correspondent, Wm. Shakespeare: DUNSINANE CASTLE – A shocking … More This Week in History
As I noted in my very first post on this blog, I’m not an early adopter. So I’m probably the ten millionth person to realize that Google has an application called Reader that lets you easily digest the contents of any blog that interests you without the trouble of actually visiting it. All of which … More That Was the Week That Was
So, what’s this blog about? Well, I’m not about to to reject advice from anyone who can write a book about sabermetric analysis compelling enough to be turned into a Brad Pitt vehicle. Alas, another geeky guy who watches The Office mostly because of Jenna Fischer already has an incredibly well-written, long-established blog on baseball, … More Write What You Know
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