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May 6, 2018: Sunday Funday

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Yesterday felt like a Sunday, so it was nice to wake up and still have the day off. However, today is shaping up to feel like a Saturday which means Monday is probably gonna suck.

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    1. I doubt that record will be broken with how tightly pitch counts are watched these days. I expect the team record for Ks in a 9-inning game to be broken soon. Not sure what that is.

          1. And you know, that's okay. Things change. I love the history of baseball, as you know. But you can love the history of baseball and still appreciate the game we have now. Is it different? Sure. But it's still a great game.

  2. Today we were going to take the Wesley Walk, but we arrived in time to attend the worship service at Wesley Chapel and decided to just skip the walk. It was a very diverse and welcoming congregation. The organist Elvis put the organ through its paces with the opening of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" wonderfully played just before the service. Afterwards, we took a short tour, saw some of John Wesley's (and Charles) history and artifacts, and visited his grave out back. Very neat.

  3. Some might call it “living dangerously,” but I think I can probably siphon the gas out of the snowblower & into the lawnmower now.

    2. The thing that got me to stop reading Reusse was when he compared games played between Prince Fielder and Joe Mauer and suggested that Fielder was tougher than Mauer because he played every day at first base when Mauer was missing all those games catching.

      Career games played: Mauer 1760 and counting, Fielder 1611 and not counting

    3. Was he not wearing, er, protection? It didn't really look like it. I wouldn't want to be out there raw doggin' it crouched behind home plate like that.

      1. How much does it actually protect? Watching a different clip, it appeared to hit in an area that is poorly protected anyway.

        1. Ain't no cup made that is gonna protect the perineum area from a 102-MPH fastball bouncing up like that. Cups are more designed to protect from, uh, head-on collisions.

          I knew a guy in h.s. who spent some time in the hospital after getting tackled in a football game (he was a split end), due to ball slippage. Those things are far from fool-proof.

          (me, I always wore two jocks under my cup for games, precisely to better insure that the package stayed safely in its cage)

  6. I took the Valet to the May Day celebration at Powderhorn. The complete weirdness of it is about as close to New Orleans as a Minneapolis event can get.

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