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May 31, 2016: Too Nice Outside

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Yesterday I got cut four hours early, as we were staffed to the gills and everyone was outside grilling and drinking. Hope you all enjoyed the holiday.

38 thoughts on “May 31, 2016: Too Nice Outside”

  1. Kohl Stewart (3-2, 2.61, 1.12 WHIP, 44 strikeouts in 51.2 innings in Fort Myers) has been promoted to Chattanooga. I hope that means Randy LeBlanc (6-2, 0.74, 0.82 WHIP, 37 strikeouts in 61 innings in Cedar Rapids) will be promoted to Fort Myers, as he's clearly too good for the Midwest League.

    1. I was wondering if LeBlanc was injured last year because his inning total was low but now it's clear the Twins converted him to a starter. I guess that explains why he's still in Cedar Rapids still.

      1. I can see that for starting him in Cedar Rapids, but he's shown that he's way too good to still be there. You don't learn much from dominating inferior competition.

        1. One time I played a pick-up basketball game with 10 9-year olds, 1 against 10. I barely won, 21-19. I learned that I wasn't in that good of shape.

  2. Here I am trying to figure out how BB ended up such an establishment as would send their extra people outside for grilling and drinking.

    The holiday was good; the whole weekend, actually. I think this is mostly on account of having spent so much of it on the move and out of the house. I should really go do stuff more often. This shouldn't be a novel idea.

    1. We enjoyed having you and yours over. Hope we didn't keep you too long.
      I think we have your middle child's socks. I found them in the treehouse.

      Thanks again for the Ommegang pack. I do like the glass... I put some cider in it yesterday, looked like champagne. Some hopped cider from a Minnesota brewer("ciderer"?), maybe the best cider I've had so far. I need a hopped and sour/wild-yeast-strain cider, I think.

      I got back down to the River yesterday, took LBR and then AJR out on the kayak. Found the Prothonotary Warbler again for the first time (my theory: the lower water this year makes the habitat less appealing, so maybe there's only one male around; last year there were at least two, probably 3, perhaps 4)
      Found the Peregrine Falcon nest. (I knew there was one around.) Kayaked right under it with LBR, then took HPR out on bike and foot to see it, and we were treated to a Peregrine/Red-tailed Hawk aerial dogfight. I'll give you one guess who won.

      Also noticed a Hairy Woodpecker nest down by the river. Chickadee brood in our dying apple tree has to be about ready to fledge.

      Grilled (Costco Frozen) hamburgers last night, topped with the last of the season's morels. Two or three went bad in the fridge, and I didn't want to waste any more.

        1. DeStihl: Here Gose Nothin'
          I can understand the mixed reaction to it there. It's a weird beer. Labelled a Gose but it's the sourest sour I've ever had (I could probably count on one hand though).
          I think Gose is right, though, the salty-mineral finish is necessary to cut the tart and give a pleasant aftertaste. I think there's a little coriander in it, too. It's just the crazy wild sour yeasts make appreciating it as a Gose akin to appreciating Berryweiss as a weissbier. (Note: I don't like Berryweiss, but I'm not going to judge it against unberry beers.)

          I've looked for more from this series, but this is the only one I've seen around.

          It hits me the same way Odell's "Brombeere" Blackberry Gose did last fall. It seems I'm quite fond of extreme takes on Gose.

            1. fwiw, yesterday's festivities here included two New Belgium Lips of Faith collaboration beers:

              1. Transatlantique Kriek
              2. Grätzer

              I'd have to say that both were somewhat disappointing. We started with the Grätzer, a collaboration with 3 Floyds. It was smokey and medium-bodied. Not much hop action. Pleasant enough, but kinda boring. We then moved to the Kriek, which is a blend of a lambic from Oud Beersel (plus sour cherries before shipping to the U.S.) with New Belgium's Felix (their sour, which is very good) plus some Golden Ale. The end product looked pretty, but lacked enough character from any of the constituent parts to be really good. Not sour enough, for sure.

              1. I'll be pouring beers in the sour tent on Thursday for their clips of faith beer and film festival. I'm guessing those will be there along with some others. Should be fun.

            2. From that, gueuzes are reconditioned blends of new and old Lambics. Nothing about salt, coriander, or wheat.
              I'd think Goses are maybe more like Berliner Weisses with salt and coriander.

  3. It's gonna be north of 100 deg. here today. Sometimes, humidity doesn't really matter.

    2. I find anything north of 100 to be miserable, but north of 100 plus humidity would be worse.

      1. when it is hot enough to rip water molecules into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas, humidity ceases to be an issue per se.

        2. When walking across molten asphalt leaves your bootprints behind, it's too hot.

          (It was a dry heat there, but that didn't matter. Stand in front of a 350°F convection oven and throw a handful of sand in your sweaty face if you're curious about what it feels like.)

  4. There are three roads going in and out of Sacramento
    One goes to the river, the other to the sea
    The one I take leads to the blue, blue sky...
    Yes "Watching the Flags"

    1. Nice! I've been too busy lately to post any of them, and usually too busy to even remember to look at them. I got half this week: I knew all the odds, but none of the evens.

      1. Not a chance I would have ever come up with any of the evens on that list. It seems a bit odd to me, but I always feel better about missing ones if I know I had no chance than if there's one I could have gotten but didn't quite come up with.

          1. I'm always kind of surprised at how many of these I end up getting despite not seeing the movie. They didn't help any this week, but trailers, posters, etc. evidently do the trick, too. Anything that came out soon before the summer I worked at Blockbuster come pretty quickly, too, what with seeing all the VHS covers over and over.

  7. Cheryl Reeve is in her 7th season as coach of the Lynx. She has 64 regular season loses. 21 of those came in her first season.

    dang.

    1. I believe she would have been a pretty good choice for the Wolves position (if she'd have been willing to leave a perennial championship contender.)

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