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February 16, 2013: Cross it off the List

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I'm going to the Grand Canyon today. In fact, I may be there when you read this, because we're getting up stupidly early (late?) to drive four hours and see the sunrise there.

55 thoughts on “February 16, 2013: Cross it off the List”

  1. I don't think many of us understood how bad things were for Carl Pavano. Glad they got it fixed in time.

    As I've mentioned before, even if he had never been a Twin, he'd still be a bit of a hero to me just by making so much money from the Yanquis while more or less being hurt the whole time. Had he stayed healthy, that team might have another title or two considering how close they were without him.

    1. About twenty years ago, my dad ruptured his spleen and nobody knew it until a week later. He nearly died, and in fact technically did die and was revived. It's a pretty serious deal.

    1. Good find, bS. My youngest kid is a bit past that stage, but I've got a niece and nephew that fits perfectly.

    2. That final paragraph is perfect. At my house, we're still recovering from daycare's genius idea to throw a Valentine's party--with lots of cake!--for the 2-year-olds.

  4. I see Gophers baseball got their season started the right way by beating #2 UCLA

    Joe C writes that the Gophers have 2 players that could be selected in the MLB draft

  7. Rubio looks pretty terrific when no one is playing defense.

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k09oFoPBKq0

  8. I would like to send a special thank you out to mlb.tv this season. Rather than just automatically renewing my card they e-mailed 4 days previous to when they were going to debit my card.

    Thanks for saving me $125 mlb!

          1. The Calf is going to be a key player moving forward as we are going to need his clothes for hand me downs.

              1. I think we knew. Did we know?
                Or is this that it's a boy?
                You'd think someone would have a spreadsheet tracking all of the announced coming births &c.

                Whatever we didn't know: congrats!

                1. I was wondering if maybe we knew. I'm pretty awful at remembering this stuff. Maybe if there were some BKACs...

              2. A little lady should be joining the Herd this summer. I offered Ruby for a first name and Oliva as a middle but I was told no more sports names.

                1. First f all, congrats!

                  Second, you should tell Mrs. Buffalo that you could link any name to a sports person, so it might as well be linked to someone you root for.

                  1. I assumed my wife really enjoyed Rancid in the 90's as I once saw a picture of her with pink hair. I tried to play to that. She saw right through me.

                2. Oh, so I read needing his clothes for hand-me-downs as another boy to wear them.
                  Both Ruby and Oliva maybe too blatant. You got greedy, hitman, and it cost you.

    2. Sheesh, I didn't think it was coming up that fast. I better go and cancel my subscription- the new firewall at work doesn't allow streaming audio, so it would be a wasted $20.

    3. You can do it monthly if you can't pay all at once. It's 19.99 a month (mlb.tv) or 24.99 a month (Premium). I'm doing the latter now that I have a job.

  11. I doubt anyone thought otherwise, but I was curious...
    Killian's Irish Stout does little for me. Not bad, but it's just there.
    In a situation with few other options, I'd probably choose it over the majority of beers from the big few brewers, but I see no reason that I'd never find something I'd rather drink in any liquor store.

    I put one in a make-your-own-sixer last night, with something from Abita, two from Kona, and something labelled "Apple Ale".
    Kona must have recently expanded into MN distribution, I can't remember seeing them before, but HPR has several different caps sent from my sister in Alaska.

    (Adding to HPR's bottle cap collection drives me probably a bit too much into trying new beers that I assume I won't like anyways. If Only Schell's and Deschutes would mix things up.)

    1. While I'm at it, my SiL (the one that drank most of my Surly Abrasive a few years back) got me a sixer of Third Street's Sugar Shack, a stout made with maple syrup, which was actually the next sixer I was going to pick for myself. I was imagining some way-interesting beer mixing elements of Schell's or Left Hand's stouts with Lagunitas' Brown Shugga. I was a bit disappointed. None of the complexity of Brown Shugga and it was thinner, like Killian's. I hardly tasted the Maple, but I'm not sure that's a problem.

      I think maybe the smoother stouts I mentioned have spoiled the thinner ones for me.

  12. CC to bS. Out of nowhere I found three six packs of these at the local grocer last night. It is like Christmas in February.

    1. sweeeeeet!

      Just about every year, I say "the Anchor is really good this year."

      I had this last night. It was a mouthful.

    2. Tonight is all about Surly Furious and a sampler of Schell's (Dark being the first one) while Philosofette works on a paper.

  13. NBBW just had the Dogfish Head 120 IPA at Plan B. Not bad.

    I had the Southern Tier IPA. Quaffable along with my Low Carb burger (char-grilled, some pink) and flash-fried green beans.

    1. Mark Rogoff, 32, is heading home to San Diego, where he will be the head junior-varsity baseball coach of his alma mater – Scripps Ranch.

      so, former (short-time) big leaguer goes to a socal h.s. to be a JV coach? WTF? We don't even pay our varsity assistants, let alone any JV or freshman coaches. And the varsity guys only make a couple of bills for the season. Has this guy got family money?

      1. From the biographies I've done, it seems like a lot of former players do stuff like that. Reasons include wanting to help kids, wanting to stay around the game, and wanting to build a coaching resume, among other things.

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