Taking advantage of a window that comes every 26 months, three nations will have crafts heading to Mars. The UAE's recently launched Hope orbiter, China's even more recently launched Tianwen-1, and NASA's soon to be launched Perseverance should all be arriving at the red planet in February. That's pretty cool.
Monthly Archives: July 2020
Fleetwood Mac – The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)
Blues rock legend Peter Green passed away yesterday at the age of 73.
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Happy Birthday–July 26
Sam Breadon (1876)
Brick Eldred (1892)
Sad Sam Jones (1892)
Larry Woodall (1894)
Paul Gallico (1897)
Alex Radcliffe (1905)
Sam Leslie (1905)
Ellis Kinder (1914)
Jimmy Bloodworth (1917)
Sibby Sisti (1920)
Hoyt Wilhelm (1922)
Norm Siebern (1933)
Pete Ward (1937)
Ken Kaiser (1945)
Jody Reed (1962)
Greg Colbrunn (1969)
Joaquin Benoit (1977)
Kevin Jepsen (1984)
Brandon Morrow (1984)
Alex Burnett (1987)
Sam Breadon owned the St. Louis Cardinals from 1917-1947.
Brick Eldred got over two thousand hits in the Pacific Coast League, playing there thirteen years.
Paul Gallico was a sportswriter from 1919-1936. He went on to become a noted writer and is best known as the author of The Poseidon Adventure.
The brother of Double Duty Radcliffe, Alex Radcliffe played in the Negro Leagues from 1932-1946 and played in eleven all-star games.
Ken Kaiser was an American League umpire from 1977-1999.
Game 2: twins @ white sox
Yesterday actually happened. There was a meaningful, delightful baseball game. Kepler actually swatted the first pitch he saw over the right field fence. I actually got to sit on the floor with my son and we both got to watch our bullpen decimate the White Sox lineup while we played with Legos.
That was great. What do they have for an encore?
The Übermensch takes on Dallas Keuchel. Now, in theory, this is the type of matchup that we've kind of weary of over the past couple of years. Their Cy Young alum takes on our second year fodder. A few problems with that live off thinking though:
* The Übermensch isn't just fodder. He was a fine pitcher down the stretch last year, and I feel like as deep as our rotation is here, he'll break into it this summer.
* This is not 2015 Kid Keuchel. He's an old man now. He has tennis balls in his garage to help him park his minivan. He has to take a motorized scooter to get to the pitching mound, and has to take a walker to get to the top of it. He BARELY cracks 93 anymore.
* This lineup, you guys. Rosario WALKED in his first plate appearance of the season. They justifiably batted a potential batting champion 9th. Max Kepler may break the all time home run record by the end of April err, August.
This is going to be good. Go Twins!!
July 25, 2020: We Won’t Settle
This team is going 16260-0!
Emily King – Look At Me Now
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John Tener (1863)
Cy Williams (1913)
Whitey Lockman (1926)
Larry Sherry (1935)
Buddy Bradford (1944)
Fred Scherman (1944)
Mick Kelleher (1947)
Biff Pocoroba (1953)
Marc Sullivan (1958)
Doug Drabek (1962)
Torey Lovullo (1965)
Ed Sprague (1967)
Billy Wagner (1971)
Guillermo Mota (1973)
Javier Vazquez (1976)
Santiago Casilla (1980)
Alex Presley (1985)
Pitcher/outfielder John Tener was the president of the National League and also became governor of Pennsylvania. For 1914-1915, he did both jobs at the same time.
Cy Williams was a long-time major league scout, working for the Detroit Tigers for thirty years.
Game 1 – Twins vs. W.Sox: How Does This Thing Work?
Concurrent Zoom meeting ID: 811 2200 9762 (password: Arraez' uniform # seven times)
FMD 07/24/2020: Soft Open
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I literally finished putting this together around noon, but here you are: a rough cut of the 2020 Summer Mix.
Okay, I swear I'm going to figure out how to break this into individual tracks. For now though, it's just two tracks; one for each part. I'm hoping to have the grand opening for the next FMD. In the meantime, it's dangerous to go it alone! Take these.
Some quick notes:
- We had a lot of submitters, and a lot of you chose longer songs. After that, there were a lot of other songs that should be on there, so the mix ran a little long.
- As such, for several reasons it just made more sense to split it into two parts. Each has a theme of sorts.
- I'll put up the tracklist with the full release. I think it's more fun to listen to it cold first.
- These should be downloadable. I know at least in iTunes, if you use the "Song Info" option on each track, go to sorting, and select "Remember playback position", it makes it more manageable to skip around the longer tracks.
Have at it. 2020 is a weird year, and this is appropriately a weird mix. I like it though.
2020 WGOM Prediction Contest
I guess another season means another contest. I copied last year's list and attempted to update it for everyone making it this year.
Spoiler your predictions for the following:
AL East #1
AL East #2
AL Central #1
AL Central #2
AL West #1
AL West #2
WC
WC
NL East #1
NL East #2
NL Central #1
NL Central #2
NL West #1
NL West #2
WC
WC
ALWC (4)
ALDS (2)
ALCS
NLWC (4)
NLDS (2)
NLCS
WS (including total games)
AL MVP
AL CY
AL ROY
AL Manager
NL MVP
NL CY
NL ROY
NL Manager
First Manager Fired