So, I played a fair amount of APBA growing up. APBA, for those who don’t know, is a simulated baseball game based on statistics, similar to Strat-o-Matic or Pursue the Pennant. The players are field managers, mostly, setting lineups and…
The Venerable Order of Giants have scored 67 runs in their first eleven games, six at Pac Belle and two at Chavez Ravine, all without Barry, four without Moises (who was oh-fer the games he did play). That is all….
Your Humble Blogger has lived in four very different places in the US, with four very different climates. Somehow, I forget that. I grew up in the desert. Spring, in the Valley of the Sun, generally lasted six to eight…
The Venerable Order of Giants have scored 33 runs in their first six games, all at Pac Belle, all without Barry, four without Moises (who was oh-fer the games he did play). That is all. chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,-Vardibidian….
OK, now in the category of Least Meme-y Thing that somehow seems like a meme anyway, Your Humble Blogger, in Wikipeding Bobby Short, clicked over to the list of people born in 1924, and was entertained, in a Book of…
So, Your Humble Blogger was having this little conversation about pilgrimage, and we got to wondering about modern versions. In particular, I’m looking for things that we (mainstreamish Americans) do that involves (a) traveling to a particular place, (2) getting…
King Kaufman, who happens to be one of my favorite sportswriters (by which I mean he annoys me less than other ones and occasionally tells me something I didn’t know), recently ruminated on his favorite Sports Days in the year….
It was probably a mistake to pull The Great American Novel off the shelf for another read-through, but I more or less enjoyed it anyway. Philip Roth must be amused by the idea that if you search Google for “the…
… and the best part is when the Yankees come to Fenway, and the guys in the bleachers start chanting “2004! 2004!” Actually, I didn’t even watch the games. I followed part of each one on Gameday, and read about…
Among the good things about winning last night’s game is the fact that now, whatever happens this afternoon, we start the last day of the season with a chance to play another game. Even if the Giants lose today, and…