We get a lot of Mourning Doves in the backyard. They look so different from the usual suspects they always catch my eye.
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They're also pretty dumb, and lay around on the deck railings and in the bird feeders
We get a lot of doves too. I don't mind them much because they're less messy than the starlings.
We've had a ton of Eurasian Collared Doves move into our area, so now I get to distinguish between those and the Mourning Doves.
Will today be the day the Twins free up #22 for their acquisition of Juan Soto? We’ll soon Sanó.
Subway in Zion was an absolute butt-kicker. On the hike for over 10 hours, but totally worth it even with the 430-foot straight-up scramble out in sunny 100 degrees. The kids did GREAT! I am sore.
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In celebration of @JustinVerlander & @Max_Scherzer both recently entering the Top-15 in Career Strikeouts in MLB history, here is a progressive timeline of the All-Time Career Strikeout Leaders ‼️
Watching Carlton pass Ryan for a nanosecond was fun
This touches on something that is a pet peeve of mine when it comes to sportswriting in baseball. If you read columns that assess career accomplishments of players, most of the time their rankings on leaderboards are given in context of the current day. But with over a century of baseball in the books since Babe Ruth called Fenway home, what really matters when evaluating a player is not where they fall on today’s leaderboards, but where they ranked when they retired.
In 1991, Bert Blyleven reached 3rd in strikeouts, and it took him twenty years to get elected to the Hall. That still strikes me as bananas.
Didn't realize Niekro had that many strikeouts, but he did pitch for quite a long time.
They're also pretty dumb, and lay around on the deck railings and in the bird feeders
We get a lot of doves too. I don't mind them much because they're less messy than the starlings.
We've had a ton of Eurasian Collared Doves move into our area, so now I get to distinguish between those and the Mourning Doves.
Will today be the day the Twins free up #22 for their acquisition of Juan Soto? We’ll soon Sanó.
Subway in Zion was an absolute butt-kicker. On the hike for over 10 hours, but totally worth it even with the 430-foot straight-up scramble out in sunny 100 degrees. The kids did GREAT! I am sore.
This is cool
Watching Carlton pass Ryan for a nanosecond was fun
This touches on something that is a pet peeve of mine when it comes to sportswriting in baseball. If you read columns that assess career accomplishments of players, most of the time their rankings on leaderboards are given in context of the current day. But with over a century of baseball in the books since Babe Ruth called Fenway home, what really matters when evaluating a player is not where they fall on today’s leaderboards, but where they ranked when they retired.
In 1991, Bert Blyleven reached 3rd in strikeouts, and it took him twenty years to get elected to the Hall. That still strikes me as bananas.
Didn't realize Niekro had that many strikeouts, but he did pitch for quite a long time.