I came into the company garage and noticed someone backing into a space when the space behind it was completely open. They reversed and pulled forward to correct about 3-4 times. During that time, I drove up through the back side two spaces over, gathered all my things, and was at the garage exit by the time they finally parked.
Monthly Archives: May 2023
Happy Birthday–May 27
Due to personal time constraints, this is a reprint from last year which has not been updated.
Frank Snyder (1894)
Pinky Higgins (1909)
Terry Moore (1912)
George O’Donnell (1929)
Jerry Kindall (1935)
Fred Bruckbauer (1938)
Jim Holt (1944)
Gary Nolan (1948)
Terry Collins (1949)
Mark Connor (1949)
Mark Clear (1956)
Ed Nunez (1963)
John Jaha (1966)
Jeff Bagwell (1968)
Frank Thomas (1968)
Todd Hundley (1969)
Brad Boxberger (1988)
Garrett Richards (1988)
Jose Berrios (1994)
Terry Collins was the manager of Houston from 1994-96, of Anaheim from 1997-99, and of the Mets from 2011-2017.
Mark Connor pitched in the Twins’ minor league system from 1971-1972 before he suffered a career-ending arm injury. He has been a pitching coach for the Yankees, Arizona, Toronto, Texas, and Baltimore. He also was the head baseball coach at the University of Tennessee.
Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock – Memory of Enchantment
Two longtime friends & collaborators, live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, playing a track the recorded for their 1997 duet album 1+1. The venue for this performance, the Hague’s Statenhal, was demolished four years after this recording. Only Hancock remains.
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Game 51: Cyanocitta cristata torontensis @ Geminos a Terra Decem Milia Lacus
In progress; Louie Varland has given up an uncharacteristic two homers in the early innings.
FMD: Fusion
What’s your favorite combination of musical genres or styles? What musicians or groups combine those styles in ways you particularly enjoy?
Drop a list with your top ten cross-genre tracks (and a random ten, if you choose) below.
May 26, 2023: Summerteeth
After this holiday weekend, we'll open up the nominations for this year's Summer Mix, so start thinking about what you want tunes you'd like to add. Even if it's just one song, start picking it out. Who knows, maybe the mix will even come out in summer this year!
(By the way, Summer Mix 2022 is still up on the podcast feed if you need some good tunes this weekend.)
Weather Report – Barbary Coast
Wayne Shorter and Josef Zawinul were bandmates eleven years before they co-founded Weather Report; they played together in the Birdland Dream Band led by Maynard Ferguson. Shorter went on to join Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, while Zawinul moved over to Cannonball Adderley’s sextet & quintet. Zawinul came over to play alongside Shorter in the studio group that supported Miles Davis’ foray into jazz-rock and fusion with In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew.
This excerpt from their 1976 appearance at Montreux features a tune written by the group’s new bassist, Jaco Pastorius, who had been with the group for just a couple months. Pastorius replaced Alphonso Johnson, splitting duties on Black Market, released the same year as this performance. Johnson had replaced original bassist Miroslav Vitouš in late 1973. As time wore on, Weather Report’s creative energies shifted from a Zawinul-Shorter polarity to a fractious Zawinul-Pastorius dynamic, but here the group is in near-peak form and Shorter shows he can blow the doors off a tune written by anyone.
And as a bonus, here’s the Shorter/Zawinul duet from that performance:
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Happy Birthday–May 26
Due to personal time constraints, this is a reprint from last year which has not been updated.
Jim Frey (1931)
Joe Altobelli (1932)
Jim McKean (1945)
Darrell Evans (1947)
Kevin Kennedy (1954)
Rob Murphy (1960)
Jason Bere (1971)
Chris Latham (1973)
Travis Lee (1975)
Ben Zobrist (1981)
Kevin Mulvey (1985)
Among other things, Jim Frey was manager of Kansas City from 1980-81, manager of the Cubs from 1984-86, and general manager of the Cubs from 1988-91.
Jim McKean was an American League umpire from 1974-2001. He also played in the CFL for five years.
Kevin Kennedy managed Texas from 1993-94 and Boston from 1995-96. He has also been a broadcaster for FOX.
Travis Lee was drafted by Minnesota with the second pick of the 1996 draft. However, the Twins failed to make a formal contract offer within the time designated under the Basic Agreement, and Lee was declared a free agent.
May 26 25, 2023: Tween
The boy is entering junior high next year, which means no more after school care. I'm not quite sure I want him spending so much time alone in the afternoon quite yet though.
Minor Details: Games of May 24
SAINTS 6, STORM CHASERS 5 IN ST. PAUL
St. Paul lost a 5-0 lead, but Jose Miranda singled home the winning run in the ninth.
Royce Lewis was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs.
Miranda was 2-for-5 with two RBIs.
Andrew Stevenson was 2-for-5 with two runs.
Brent Headrick pitched four innings, allowing four runs (three earned) on seven hits and two walks and striking out three.
Josh Winder struck out four in 2.1 scoreless innings, giving up one hit and three walks.
Connor Sadzeck struck out three in 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up one hit.
WIND SURGE 13, CARDINALS 1 IN SPRINGFIELD
Wichita scored four in the third, led 5-1 after six, then scored five in the seventh and three in the eighth.
Seth Gray was 3-for-4 with a triple and two runs.
Yoyner Fajardo was 3-for-5 with a double, two runs, and three RBIs.
Jake Rucker was 3-for-5.
Brooks Lee was 2-for-4 with a home run (his fourth), a double, a walk, three runs, and three RBIs.
Pat Winkel was 2-for-4 with a walk.
Yunior Severino was 2-for-5 with a double.
DaShawn Keirsey, Jr. was 2-for-5 with a double and two RBIs.
Anthony Prato hit a home run, his second.
Blayne Enlow pitched six innings, giving up one run on six hits and striking out one.
Denny Bentley struck out two in 1.2 scoreless innings, giving up a hit and a walk.
Alex Scherff struck out two in 1.1 scoreless innings, giving up three hits and a walk.
TIMBER RATTLERS 4, KERNELS 2 IN CEDAR RAPIDS (10 INNINGS)
Joe Gray, Jr. hit a three-run homer in the tenth to break a 1-1 tie.
Misael Urbina hit a home run, his second. Cedar Rapids had just three hits.
Jaylin Nowlin struck out five in five innings, giving up one run on seven hits and two walks.
Regi Grace pitched two shutout innings, giving up one hit and two walks and striking out one.
Miguel Rodriguez pitched two perfect innings, striking out one.
FORT MYERS AT DUNEDIN
Rained out. Will be made up tomorrow.
TODAY'S TILTS
5:30 Fort Myers (TBD) at Dunedin
6:35 Wisconsin at Cedar Rapids (Kyle Jones, 2-2, 3.62)
7:05 Wichita (TBD) at Springfield
7:07 Omaha at St. Paul (Aaron Sanchez, 2-4, 4.89)
Minor Details will take a few days off, as I will be out of town. If nothing unexpected happens, the feature will reappear Monday.