46 thoughts on “March 5, 2015: Ride the Lightning”

  1. I'm irrationally happy that Buxton hit two doubles and Sano doubled and walked against the Gophers.

    1. And I see absolutely nothing wrong with that! I'm also happy that J. O. Berrios struck out four and only gave up one hit in two innings.

  2. Every time I hear the name "Sonny Grey," "Kodachrome" by Paul Simon plays in my head.

      1. Its not like we're going in any sort of order of release, or anything like that. So that should give you plenty of poetic license.

  3. So one of the things my Sonos system gives me is access to countless radio stations. The problem is I get no rundown, but only the title and genre. I could save myself a lot of time if some of these jazz stations were in a separate folder called "Cheese Jazz." (Yes, there's already a "Smooth Jazz" section I can easily avoid, but the main listing still contains a lot of junk)

  4. My cousin informed me via fb that Alabama Shakes tickets are now on Pre-Sale, via First-Ave.
    Where: First Ave Hall's Island, Minneapolis*
    When: Saturday, May 30, 4:30 pm.
    Cost: $45
    Passcode: Color
    The Rev. J. Misty* opens up.

    I'm not interested, but I assume many here may be.

    *Asterisks SelectShow
      1. Don't get too worried. Presales usually only about 1/3 of all tix. But demonstrates that this is popular show. If interersted I'd hit the site right at away tomorrow.

        1. My wife ended up getting two through the band's website. Then told me she might be taking our daughter instead of me.

  5. Got a ticket out of nowhere (via Colin "Inkarnit" Wolfson at my other place) to the Indians-Reds game in an hour. His company gets them for just about every game and he's pretty sure these are in the front row. Well, I'll be.

    After three years of missing out on Spring Training due to not getting schedules together or basic laziness, I'm pretty sure this is the first of at least three I'll be attending.

    1. Couldn't those teams just play each other in Ohio? Why travel all the way to Arizona for that matchup?

      1. Heh. They actually share a home facility, so they play each other a lot in the preseason, in addition to being designated interleague "rivals." They probably know the guys on the other team near as well as they know their own.

    1. I wonder if that means my e-mail listener show questions for Effectively Wild have a chance of being read now

    2. Huh. For some reason, I'd never even considered HIPAA when discussing sports player injuries. I wonder if there are conditional waivers in parts of the contracts they sign, and really, how much of their rights could they really force them to give up?

    3. I went to his old place. "The Authors have deleted this site."
      I think I had e-mail notification, so I didn't miss anything there.
      Good for him, he had way too many good thoughts for that small audience.

  6. I know the subject matter is a touchy for some folks (primarily associated with forbidden zone sentiments) but I really enjoyed this interview with Paul Douglas and wanted to share it.

  7. Here are the lineups for tonight’s Grapefruit League opener:

    RED SOX

    Bogaerts ss

    Pedroia 2b

    Sandoval 3b

    Napoli 1b

    Craig lf

    LaHair dh

    Brentz rf

    Bradley cf

    Vazquez c

    Kelly RHP

    TWINS

    Santana ss

    Dozier 2b

    Mauer 1b

    Hunter rf

    Arcia lf

    Plouffe 3b

    Suzuki c

    Escobar dh

    Hicks cf

    Gibson RHP

  8. Spent most of the game joking around with Sandy Alomar. He gave an autographed ball to Colin. It was a weird, fantastic day at the park.

      1. The deal was struck during the one time I left the stands for a potty break. On the upside, I did get to talk to Alomar for a while as a result, and he was amused that I'd had to tell Colin who Alomar was before the game.

  9. Went shelling around sunset tonight; all the larger whelks were occupied, and the smaller ones sported crabs, so I didn't add to the collection much. Still, it was a nice walk at low tide, and we saw a handful of dolphins passing by. This week is going too fast.

    1. Heh, that article sure did attract the truthers.

      Also, those three plays are all awesome.

  10. I think I've decided that my favorite running gag on Archer is the ridiculously long recordings his Mother gets when she calls his phone.

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