Each player on the team that wins the Stanley Cup famously gets to spend a day with it. And you also get the company of a “keeper,” who is basically a roving curator from the Hockey Hall of Fame, whose… Continue Reading
Tomorrow or Friday I’ll post some pictures from Houston. The point of the trip was to visit and spend time with my parents, and that was great. They have a very nice house and seem to be nicely on the… Continue Reading
Physicists, armed with high-speed cameras and lasers and stuff, say, “It looks like a curve ball, but the ball’s trajectory is, actually straight.” Pitchers and batters both insist, “No way, the damn thing curves.” Here’s a demonstration of why the… Continue Reading
The Dodgers are off to a superb start. They often start strong, but this is different. They’ve been absolutely dominating. They’re 21-8, far and away the best record in baseball, and they’ve broken the record for most consecutive home wins… Continue Reading
I am more than a little bit aghast at reading about the caloric and financial excesses chronicled at the New Yankee Stadium. Yet the author is right — this is somehow the very essence of what New York is about.… Continue Reading
We got two votes for “other” movies — both were for Major League. The overall winner of “best baseball movie,” however, goes to Field of Dreams, which narrowly prevailed over The Natural. Personally, my favorite baseball movie is Bull Durham;… Continue Reading
At the end of December, I made sixteen predictions for 2009. Here’s how I’m doing so far: Prediction Status The United States Federal deficit for calendar year 2009 will exceed $1.5 trillion. I may have been too modest in this… Continue Reading
It seems that Olympic hero Michael Phelps smoked some pot out of a bong. And then had the bad judgment to allow a photograph of this event to be taken. Next to the Fall Of Tom Daschle, this is the… Continue Reading
Laying a hardwood floor is a much more complicated task than I had anticipated. Now it seems that we need to cure the concrete subfloor before applying the mastic to lay the bamboo flooring. That’s going to take two-thirds of… Continue Reading
Pretty fun video to promote fantasy football. Fun. But I’m going to need some convincing before I believe it isn’t done with special effects. I mean, if Jason Campbell and Marc Bulger really had that kind of throwing accuracy, you’d… Continue Reading