Tom Bartel How’d you like to see this coming at you? If last night was any indication, either I’ve severely overestimated C.C. Sabathia or Eric Wedge way overused him during the season. Over 240 innings in a year is a lot these days. (Santana pitched 219 this year.) Last night (and in game one of the Boston … Read more
In celebration of thirty years of my wife’s profound ability to tolerate me, we went to France for ten days last month. We did the things we usually do when we go to interesting places. We got a very small and inexpensive hotel room (under the theory that we’re never there anyway) and spent all … Read more
I was in the ticket sales office for the new Twins ballpark a few weeks ago. Actually, it must have been more than a few weeks ago because the Twins hadn’t yet given up and fallen off the pennant chase earth. On their big screen TV was a replay of the previous night’s game with … Read more
With pandora.com, you can tell them what you like, and they’ll program a radio station for you to listen to.
In my comment of yesterday, I accused the Strib of sending a photographer to illustrate the top of the front page story on the news that the airport was going to lower the dividers in some of the men’s room stalls. As many astute readers pointed out, it was an AP photo. I don’t recall … Read more
They not only wrote the story, they actually ran an AP photo of the men’s room, just in case you ladies don’t know what one looks like. (This cutline corrected from original.) We’ve been having a debate around my house for several months now…since about the time Par (Mr. Ethics) Ridder took over at the … Read more
Things are getting back to normal now. The collapse of the bridge was two months ago, and except for the families of the dead and injured, we Minnesotans have moved on. The Legislature had its special session and funds were approved for southeastern Minnesota flood relief, but the gas tax is where it was before … Read more
Last month, seven U.S. soldiers wrote an op-ed piece for the NY Times which gave lie to the sunny sunshine glowing the past two days from General David Petraeus’s ass. Today, we read in the Times that two of those men have been killed in Iraq…in a truck accident. Senseless.
He didn’t exactly fall on his sword, but you gotta like Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for resigning because his popularity had fallen to Bush-like levels. The NY Times put it like this: “Mr. Abe, deeply unpopular, had already been written off by Japan’s political establishment and news media, his political future measured in months.” … Read more
I just wanted to point out what might be one of the best blog headlines ever over at clothesline blog. “Gonzales may have resigned — says he can’t recall” To say anything else would be gilding the lily.