37 thoughts on “May 11, 2023: Crazy Train”

                1. Where's Algonad?

                  1. Train in Vain
                  2. Folsom Prison Blues
                  3. Midnight Train to Georgia
                  4. Love Train
                  5. Last Train to Clarksville
                  6. Peace Train
                  7. Locomotive Breath
                  8. Train Kept a Rollin'
                  9. Casey Jones
                  10. City of New Orleans
                  B: Crazy Train

                  2. Nov 27, 2020
                    Top Train Songs
                    5 Night Train - Guns N Roses
                    4 Play a Train Song - Todd Snider
                    3 Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips
                    2 Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
                    1 Drops of Jupiter - Train

  2. In what is definitely a personal best, I already have 3 videos for my Guest DJ spot scheduled 4 months out.

    I'm determined to not do any "morning of" posts this time around.

    2. I literally keep a list of videos I want to use at the WGOM, I could probably schedule my late 2023 videos now.

  3. The Poissonnière took a page out of her old man’s book yesterday evening and made her first appearance wearing the tools of ignorance. She took a pretty decent foul tip to her bicep and stuck back there. No tears, no time out; she just kept catching & blocking.

    I had subbed for a regular coach and worked with each of the catchers. My main goal was to get them to trust their equipment (“Don’t flinch! The pads are on your front!”), learn good form (“Protect that throwing hand!”), and get a hang of fielding the position with runners on. They all improved over the inning, letting fewer pitches get by them. Each one of them took a tip or got hit by a pitch. (Crouched behind them with nothing but a first baseman’s mitt, I got hit by my first tips & pitches in over twenty years.) At the end of their inning, I made sure to tell them that playing through the injuries made them official catchers.

    When I asked the Poissonnière last night if she wants to play catcher again, she immediately replied “Oh yeah! I loved it!”

    1. I played catcher in third grade for a school team. I was too tall for my age so the gear didn't fit right, especially the shin guards. The top of my knees weren't protected at all and eventually I took a pitch off my knee that left me in tears. The other team's catcher had to do double duty after that. I don't remember if I continued that year or not. I think I did after getting new equipment.

      1. This is my major reservation about allowing her to catch regularly. I know I was concussed a couple times over the years and we didn’t have a protocol to follow. I’m not even sure I understood how to describe how I was feeling.

        Getting absolutely steamrolled by bigger kids (I weighed 120lbs when I graduated) on plays at the plate and holding onto the ball was a huge point of pride, but I was lucky I never got seriously hurt. The position’s stress of on-field tactical awareness was probably the best part of the routine ins & outs.

        Do I let my kid find her own love for a position that is more dangerous to her beautiful brain? I have misgivings.

    3. There were a couple teams where I was the only one that had any catching proficiency, which meant I ended up back there a lot.

    4. I'm left handed, so my experience with catching was one inning where they put me back there and had me throw right handed for reasons I don't entirely remember. It went poorly.

      Newbish is a lefty, too. As I told him a couple of years ago, "you can be anything you want to be if you are determined enough....except a second baseman"

      1. I had a similar situation, only I was on the other end. Coach just had to play the left-handed kid at first base. Never mind he couldn't catch a cold, I was right handed so I "couldn't" play 1B, despite it being my best position and being the best option on the team to play there.

      2. My sense is that the reality has become a bit more harsh than it was in the past, but at one point it seemed the wisdom was “Teach a kid to pitch and you feed him for a day, teach a kid to pitch left-handed and he feeds himself for a lifetime.”

        1. For similar reasons…Grandpa always wanted his progeny to learn how to punt.

    5. Honest Abe has always struggled to make solid contact. He always makes contact, but he never squares it up. But his first time up yesterday, he launched one to the left center gap (it made that sweet sound a well-hit ball makes) and scampered all the way around for a home run.

      Of course, he managed to honk the Buck Truck as he crossed the plate. (Special bonus is that his team name is the Honkers.)

        1. In two games, the entire team has collectively managed to hit about five balls past the infield dirt (and this was the only one to get past the outfielders) so I'm guessing they'll never need one again

      1. Desperation trades are the worst trades.

        Meanwhile, Luis Castillo has already banked 1.6 fWAR with a 28.1 K% and 0.99 WHIP supporting his 2.56 FIP for the Mariners…

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