https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDDzq792Qw
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Loading... A year and a half later, and I'm still listening to this album quite a bit. This song, in particular, has only grown in my estimation.
Love the sax bit at the end.
(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 10)Loading... Date: Friday, July 26.
Batting stars: Chili Davis was 2-for-3 with a home run (his twenty-second), a double, a walk, and two RBIs. Kirby Puckett was 2-for-4 with a walk. Mike Pagliarulo was 2-for-4.
Pitching stars: Kevin Tapani pitched eight innings, giving up three runs on five hits and no walks and striking out six. Rick Aguilera pitched a perfect inning and struck out one.
Opposition star: Chris Bosio pitched 6.1 innings, giving up three runs on seven hits and six walks and striking out five.
The game: Davis homered in the second inning to give the Twins a 1-0 lead. It went to 2-0 in the third when Puckett singled, Kent Hrbek walked, and Brian Harper delivered an RBI single.
The Brewers had only two hits through five innings, both singles. The Twins loaded the bases with one out in the fifth, but Harper hit into a double play to end the inning.
It cost the Twins, as Milwaukee took the lead in the sixth. With one out Dale Sweum doubled, Paul Molitor doubled, and Darryl Hamilton tripled to tie it. Hamilton then scored on a ground out to put the Brewers up 3-2.
The Twins tied it in the seventh. Randy Bush singled, Puckett walked, and Davis came through with a two-out RBI double to make it 3-3. In the eighth Pagliarulo singled, Greg Gagne reached on an error, a fielder's choice loaded the bases, and Dan Gladden delivered a bases-clearing double, giving the Twins a 6-3 lead. The Brewers went down in order in the ninth.
WP: Tapani (7-7). LP: Darren Holmes (1-2). S: Aguilera (26).
Notes: Bush was in right field in place of Shane Mack. He batted second. Al Newman was at second base, replacing Chuck Knoblauch. Knoblauch pinch-ran for Pagliarulo in the eighth and stayed in the game at second base, with Newman moving to third.
Puckett raised his average to .337. Harper was 1-for-3 with a walk and was batting .319. Tapani's ERA was 3.05. Aguilera lowered his ERA to 2.86.
Milwaukee had just five hits. Three of them were for extra bases and all three came in the sixth inning. They had only two singles other than that, and had no hits after the sixth. They had only one man left on base and were 2-for-3 with men in scoring position. The Twins, on the other hand, stranded ten men and went 3-for-13 with men in scoring position.
I remembered that Chili Davis had a good year in 1991, but I had not remembered just how important he was. He was second on the team in runs (to Puckett), first in doubles, first in home runs, first in RBIs, first in walks (by a long way--he had 95, second was Hrbek with 67), first in OBP, second in slugging and OPS (to Mack), first in OPS+, and first in total bases. That's almost every significant offensive category. He was certainly the most valuable player on the offense, and maybe the MVP of the team. He was fourteenth in MVP voting that season, behind (among others, obviously) Jack Morris (13th) and Puckett (7th).
The White Sox did not play, so the Twins gained a half game on them in the standings.
Record: The Twins were 57-40, in first place in the American League West, 4.5 games ahead of Chicago.
That’s bad luck! Somebody should do something about that!
Ernie Calbert (1887)
Fred Schulte (1901)
Ron Brand (1940)
Makoto Matsubara (1944)
Mike Tyson (1950)
Bob Forsch (1950)
Odell Jones (1953)
Gene Roof (1958)
Kevin Mitchell (1962)
Kevin McClatchy (1963)
Elmer Dessens (1971)
Oliver Drake (1987)
Ernie Calbert won six minor league home run titles. He also once pitched a minor league no-hitter.
Makoto Matsubara was an eleven-time all-star in Japan.
Kevin McClatchy was the CEO of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1996-2007.
When Elmer Dessens made his major league debut in 1996, he was the first big leaguer in thirty-five years to have the first name "Elmer". There have been none since.
Gene Roof is the brother of ex-Twin Phil Roof.
We would like to wish a happy birthday to The Dread Pirate.
In 2020 we'll celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, so it feels like a good time to start up a conversation about the environment. Specifically what we're doing, what we're not doing, what we wish we were doing. I often get overwhelmed by reading about the current situation on our planet. So for this feature, I'm planning to break things down into manageable bits. In that way, my hope is that it will also be easier for all of us to take part in the conversation--and to swap ideas for what we can all be doing. The idea is to keep this very much on the small (or smallish) things that we as individuals can do in our everyday lives.
First up, let's talk about things we reuse. This may not sound all that exciting, but I think that's kind of the point--while I'm as susceptible as the next person to buying shiny, new stuff that's going to magically fix the environment, we can't really just buy our way to a healthier planet. We also need to keep on using what we already have.
I grew up in a pretty frugal household where we were expected to bring home our brown paper lunch bags and the plastic bags within them. And I'm now that person who washes all the ziploc bags because goshdarnit, they're still good and we can use them again!
One thing I've not done that I'd like to try is to find a substitute for plastic wrap, which I use fairly often when baking.
A few years ago, I got some reuseable grocery bags and while it took a little while for the habit to kick in, it's now second nature to grab a bag (or a bunch of them) before heading to the store.
Last week I took a couple pairs of shoes to my favorite shoe guy (who delivers fascinating mini lectures on shoe care). One pair was just starting to show a few signs of wear, and thanks to the new heel caps being put on, they should last me a good long while longer. The other pair turned to be too far gone, so now I'm trying to figure out if there's anything I can do with them besides throw them in the trash when I finish wearing through the sole (which I'm well on my way to doing).
So please share any thoughts you have on reusing stuff! And please share thoughts on future topics you want to see covered (transportation, water, plastic, food, and clothing are all on my mind) as well as any ideas for a name for this feature, which I'm hoping can be a monthly thing!
Seems I've played this band three times in the last two and a half years, but never played this song, so lucky nibbish gets even more of his favorite indie rock band of the latter half of the decade!!! Preceding this would've been Japandroids' "The House That Heaven Built" and Perfume Genius' "Queen". (I promise I'll play some Rush soon but I'm not going to waste it on a Sunday)
(2 votes, average: 9.00 out of 10)Loading... Henry Larkin (1860)
Tom Kinslow (1866)
George Browne (1876)
Joe Hauser (1899)
Lee Allen (1915)
Alfredo Ortiz (1944)
Ron Polk (1944)
Paul Reuschel (1947)
Randy Jones (1950)
Bill Madlock (1951)
Terry Whitfield (1953)
Tim Hulett (1960)
Mike Marshall (1960)
Casey Candaele (1961)
Andy Fox (1971)
Luis Ayala (1978)
Dontrelle Willis (1982)
Ivan Nova (1987)
Joe Hauser twice hit over 60 home runs in a season in AAA.
Historian and writer Lee Allen contributed much to the Hall of Fame and to the first edition of the Baseball Encyclopedia.
Alfredo Ortiz won 287 games in the minor leagues, mostly in the Mexican League, and 104 more in the Mexican Winter League.
Ron Polk was a very successful college baseball coach, most notably at Mississippi State.
The Mike Marshall listed above is the outfielder/first baseman who played mostly for the Dodgers.
I leave today, which is yesterday for you. Also, I arrive two hours before I left. Whatever...
