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February 14, 2024: That Special Day

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You know you've been waiting for this day to express your love to the ones you deeply cherish: PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT TODAY!!!

Oh, and be sure to give your SO a peck on the cheek.

18 thoughts on “February 14, 2024: That Special Day”

  3. The WordPress ActivityPub plugin no longer posts comments so I re-enabled it for those Mastodon folks.

  4. Anyone have any good ideas for what to do with an excess of lemons? We planted an array of citrus trees a few years ago, and both the regular and Meyer lemon trees are now producing way more than we will use for regular day-to-day cooking.

    1. I feel like there should be a proverb about when life is giving you lemons, but I just can't come up with one...

      Lemon meringue pies. Whiskey sours. Lemon curd.

      2. Lemon drops.

        Preserved lemons for tagines and for salted lemonade.

        I have a brand new batch of limoncello steeping (just the rinds, although many recipes for Meyer lemons include quartered lemons instead).

        Lemon chicken

        Lemon- butter sauce with capers (for, e.g., piccata).

    2. Per a very weird guy we met at a bonspiel a few months ago, I'm told grinding up lemons with garlic and somehow drinking that will lower your blood pressure.

    4. A winery in these parts makes a lemon wine every year. I can only drink a 1/2 glass before it gets to intense. However, I found it to be great for deglazing pans when I saute seafood, or asian dishes.

  5. Rockies launching a streaming service. The pricing I saw was $100/year to "stream Rockies games in Colorado with NO BLACKOUTS (subject to national exclusivities)" [emphasis in original], or $200/year to add in mlb.tv with its usual rules. If I lived in Minnesota, I think I'd go for the $100 deal. $17/month is in the range of existing streaming options.

      1. Maybe? This will short-term destroy the regional cable deals but each team's streaming deal is for only that team. MLB.tv can continue be an over-arching bridge to support them all. Otherwise it's $100/year per team, for every team. The teams might prefer that rather than splitting the extra $100 but that is a very tough sell.

  6. Topps' 2024 series 1 cards came out today, always a source of frustration for me to see the several no-longer-Twins in the first batch, but they didn't do too bad this year:
    #67 Polanco, #91 Wallner, #94 Buxton, #121 Ober, #148 Kirilloff, #155 Correa, #175 Ryan, #208 Lewis, #227 Duran, #263 Balazovic, #285 Castro, #324 Gray, #344 Jeffers

    Seems like you should avoid FA and trade-talk players, and really only Gray and maybe Polanco falls in that category. Balazovic was a recent waiver but cleared; there are better bullpen candidates but the rookies get the early support.

      1. Well, they have to balance having desirable rookies and stars in each of Series 1, Series 2, and the Update sets, but they should be able to do that without including players that FOR SURE won't be with the team in the next season and a new card subsequently release AGAIN in their new uniform in the next series. Lazy.

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