May 1, 2012: The Cusp

The verbal commitment was made yesterday, but today we should be finding out that the Milkmaid's getting a promotion that will nearly double her salary and take us to Tennessee, West Virginia, Washington, Hawai'i or Chicago. I don't care where we go - we'll be out of debt in no time and will finally be free to live our lives.

Happy Birthday–May 1

Frank Foreman (1863)
George McQuillan (1885)
Victor Starfin (1916)
Johnny Berardino (1917)
Al Zarilla (1919)
Von Joshua (1948)
Rudy Meoli (1951)
Roy Lee Jackson (1954)
Charlie O'Brien (1960)
Jose Lind (1964)
Armando Reynoso (1966)

Born in Russia, Victor Starfin was Japanese baseball’s first 300-game winner.

Infielder Johnny Berardino played in the major leagues for eleven years and appeared in 912 games, but is best known as Dr. Steve Hardy on General Hospital, a role he played from 1963-1996.

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Game 22 Recap: Minnesota Twins 3, LAAAAAAAAAAA Angels 4

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half-bakef game notes:

  • blackburn had a quality start (you can take that for what it's worth)
  • II didn't care
  • casilla was strangely effective
  • valencia too (though less so)
  • morneau left the game injured (wrist)
  • burton still isn't a scrub
  • close, but not close enough-ish
  • i dropped lidge and picked up downs.  uhh, score...

UPDATE: aww, nuts.