Won't have time to get Minor Details done this morning. I hope to get it done this afternoon.
ESPN has some highlights from Gregg Popovich's press conference last night and I thoroughly enjoyed them. I know the reporters have a job to do...but sometimes that job seems to be asking really obvious questions and it's fun to see them get a little pushback at times.
It really has to be tough to ask questions at a press conference that's live on the Internet if not TV. Or at least you know a bunch of cameras are taping it. When I'm asking a coach a question one-on-one after a tough loss or bad news there's times I'll say "I have to ask this so..." something along those lines. Of course, technically I don't "have to" but I know if I don't get the answer to it, my editor is going to ask me why I didn't no matter how obvious the response.
It was a doubleheader day for the boys last night. Junior's game was first, and he was the starting pitcher. He gave up 1 hit and no runs the first two innings with three strikeouts. In the third, he gave up a couple runs thanks to a couple popups that were dropped and a batter reaching on a strikeout because of a passed ball/wild pitch. Junior had a small pitch limit because his team has a doubleheader on Saturday and they need everyone available to pitch, so he was taken out with no outs in the third. Junior grounded out to the catcher in his only at-bat. His Mariners lost 17-4.
Trey's Astros won 13-1. He struck out swinging in his only at-bat.
the sun has been out for only 3 hours since Monday.
its rained 4 of the last 5 days
I am a grump.
I've gotten in some great walks, saw some good birds, and picked some good mushrooms to boot.
Despite (or because of) the weather. I like the weather a bit rougher: fewer people out and about.
I'm torn by the desire that no one else ever use the park, and my desire that it remains a park.
Two dudes smoking cigarettes last night had a quarter-full plastic grocery bag of morels. I believe the park cops will ticket you for that*, I try to be a lot more discreet (but I miss a lot because of it).
I was happy that they came from the area I got mine in. It means we both got some.
*I will contest that if I ever get a ticket. Park district ordinances make it illegal to remove any plant or animal or part of one or any mineral.
1. Mushrooms are not listed. (They are in Anoka County parks)
2. Agate collection is encouraged by at least one nature center exhibit. Unless we're meant to pick up rocks and then put them back.
3. Signs would be helpful.
4. I picked these across the trail, which is not park district land. Prove I didn't.
5. How selectively do you enforce this?
Apparently morels grow really well in part of my backyard, we' haven't been here a year yet but a neighbor is going to stop by to show us the good spots.
And hey, the sun just came out! Time to walk the dog.
A friend and I went morel hunting on Wednesday. First time I'd ever gone. In an hour and half, we found twelve (I, being an untrained eye, only found one of those, growing all by its lonesome). Looking forward to sauteing them up tomorrow.
I took my kids biking in the church parking lot down the street the other day. Found 3 morels growing in a connected dirt/grass lot. First ones I'd ever found (and thanks to AMR on confirming the ID), and they were delicious.
I need to go outside before those smoking dudes come back.
I made the right decision. Best haul since I was a kid.
I'm sure it helped that the morning was so cold so there was hardly anyone out.
AMR, if this part of the Three Rivers Park District (which I believe it is)
then the "prosecutor" would be a law student clerking for the Hennepin County Attorney's Office. They will be much more gung-ho than necessary because it is "their" case so they have no incentive to let something slide or use common sense. I definitely saw someone convicted of removing agates while I was clerking there.
He's like 3 feet out of the batter's box when he bunts that. Ha.
He's got both feet in the box when he makes contact.
Lead foot was in front of the box, but Rod Carew would have been proud.
I once hit a bunt double in a softball game but it was nothing like that one. I bunted in between the pitcher, first baseman, and second baseman. Amongst the confusion one who should field it and who should cover, I just kept running.
When has bunting ever been allowed in softball? I'm calling BS Dazzle.
I just saw the recent news about the Professor's old roommate. Must have been a lot of brainpower in that room in Northfield back in the day!
Won't have time to get Minor Details done this morning. I hope to get it done this afternoon.
ESPN has some highlights from Gregg Popovich's press conference last night and I thoroughly enjoyed them. I know the reporters have a job to do...but sometimes that job seems to be asking really obvious questions and it's fun to see them get a little pushback at times.
It really has to be tough to ask questions at a press conference that's live on the Internet if not TV. Or at least you know a bunch of cameras are taping it. When I'm asking a coach a question one-on-one after a tough loss or bad news there's times I'll say "I have to ask this so..." something along those lines. Of course, technically I don't "have to" but I know if I don't get the answer to it, my editor is going to ask me why I didn't no matter how obvious the response.
It was a doubleheader day for the boys last night. Junior's game was first, and he was the starting pitcher. He gave up 1 hit and no runs the first two innings with three strikeouts. In the third, he gave up a couple runs thanks to a couple popups that were dropped and a batter reaching on a strikeout because of a passed ball/wild pitch. Junior had a small pitch limit because his team has a doubleheader on Saturday and they need everyone available to pitch, so he was taken out with no outs in the third. Junior grounded out to the catcher in his only at-bat. His Mariners lost 17-4.
Trey's Astros won 13-1. He struck out swinging in his only at-bat.
the sun has been out for only 3 hours since Monday.
its rained 4 of the last 5 days
I am a grump.
I've gotten in some great walks, saw some good birds, and picked some good mushrooms to boot.
Despite (or because of) the weather. I like the weather a bit rougher: fewer people out and about.
I'm torn by the desire that no one else ever use the park, and my desire that it remains a park.
Two dudes smoking cigarettes last night had a quarter-full plastic grocery bag of morels. I believe the park cops will ticket you for that*, I try to be a lot more discreet (but I miss a lot because of it).
I was happy that they came from the area I got mine in. It means we both got some.
Apparently morels grow really well in part of my backyard, we' haven't been here a year yet but a neighbor is going to stop by to show us the good spots.
And hey, the sun just came out! Time to walk the dog.
A friend and I went morel hunting on Wednesday. First time I'd ever gone. In an hour and half, we found twelve (I, being an untrained eye, only found one of those, growing all by its lonesome). Looking forward to sauteing them up tomorrow.
I took my kids biking in the church parking lot down the street the other day. Found 3 morels growing in a connected dirt/grass lot. First ones I'd ever found (and thanks to AMR on confirming the ID), and they were delicious.
I need to go outside before those smoking dudes come back.
I made the right decision. Best haul since I was a kid.
I'm sure it helped that the morning was so cold so there was hardly anyone out.
AMR, if this part of the Three Rivers Park District (which I believe it is)
I'd take that every week.
He's like 3 feet out of the batter's box when he bunts that. Ha.
He's got both feet in the box when he makes contact.
Lead foot was in front of the box, but Rod Carew would have been proud.
I once hit a bunt double in a softball game but it was nothing like that one. I bunted in between the pitcher, first baseman, and second baseman. Amongst the confusion one who should field it and who should cover, I just kept running.
When has bunting ever been allowed in softball? I'm calling
BSDazzle.I just saw the recent news about the Professor's old roommate. Must have been a lot of brainpower in that room in Northfield back in the day!
Ivy League expected to eliminate tackling in football practices.
Brien Taylor and Steve Chilcott get to be the only correct answers to the trivia question, again.
And another Presidential / baseball name trivia addition.
Fitting then that he signed with the Rangers.
Everything in the world is awful and nothing is ever getting better.
Is that a place I should know?
Mallory Ortberg is second to maybe only Jon Bois as the funniest on the internet.
Raccoons., Medieval Art, Children's Stories Made Horrific, Western Art History, Random Lists of Advice, So many more. I'm not sure those are the best examples, just ones I ran across. Instead of a movie, go there sometime and follow down all the rabbit holes you feel like.
And on Canadians!
The best possible piece about grooming (language warning)!