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Monthly Archives: March 2024
March 6, 2024: Weird Al or Weird AI?
They're implementing some AI programs here at work. So far I've just being have fun creating weird visualizations like this here header photo.
*The prompt for this was "create a picture of a samurai robot holding a coffee cup with the letters "WGOM" on the surface of pluto with tiny Minnesota Twins baseball players in the background."
Happy Birthday–March 6
Ring Lardner (1885)
Lefty Grove (1900)
Walter Cannady (1902)
Pete Gray (1915)
Bob Swift (1915)
Ted Abernathy (1933)
Cookie Rojas (1939)
Willie Stargell (1940)
Karl Best (1959)
Scott Stahoviak (1970)
Terry Adams (1973)
Marcus Thames (1977)
Clint Barmes (1979)
Jake Arrieta (1986)
Francisco Cervelli (1986)
Ross Detwiler (1986)
Author Ring Lardner wrote about a variety of subjects, but is probably most famous for writing about baseball. If you haven't read any of his stuff, you really should.
As you probably know, Pete Gray played in 77 games for the St. Louis Browns in 1945 despite having only one arm.
PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old I Dying
March 5, 2024: Re-Up
I've tentatively scheduled the baseball fantasy draft on 3/17 at 8:30p. I could be convinced to move it. I've also set up to 5 keepers. I have no idea how that works, so we'll see how that goes. Anyone wants to join, let me know.
Happy Birthday–March 5
Sam Thompson (1860)
Jeff Tesreau (1888)
Lu Blue (1897)
Elmer Valo (1921)
Del Crandall (1930)
Phil Roof (1941)
Katsuo Osugi (1945)
Kent Tekulve (1947)
Doug Bird (1950)
Mike Veeck (1951)
Mike Squires (1952)
Steve Ontiveros (1961)
Brian Hunter (1971)
Jeffrey Hammonds (1971)
Ryan Franklin (1973)
Paul Konerko (1976)
Mike MacDougal (1977)
Erik Bedard (1979)
Joe Benson (1988)
Katsuo Osugi was the first player to have a thousand hits in the Japanese Central League and the Japanese Pacific League.
The son of Bill Veeck, Mike Veeck is an executive advisor to the president of the Goldklang Group, which at one time owned the St. Paul Saints.
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to brianS’ daughter.
We would also like to wish a happy birthday to spookymilk’s father.
Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well
That looks like a robe. For some reason, we have a "robe" hashtag, so okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPTpZ6CEoJ8
Happy Birthday–March 4
Due to personal time constraints, this is a reprint from last year which has not been updated.
Red Murray (1884)
Jeff Pfeffer (1888)
Dazzy Vance (1891)
Lefty O'Doul (1897)
Buck Canel (1906)
Clyde McCullough (1917)
Mel Queen (1918)
Leo Righetti (1925)
Cass Michaels (1926)
Bob Johnson (1936)
Jack Fischer (1939)
Danny Frisella (1946)
Tom Grieve (1948)
Harry Saferight (1949)
Sam Perlozzo (1951)
Mark Wagner (1954)
Jeff Dedmon (1960)
Tom Lampkin (1964)
Giovanni Carrera (1968)
Dave Stevens (1970)
Mark Wegner (1972)
Sergio Romo (1983)
Nick Castellanos (1992)
Born in Argentina, Buck Canel broadcast major league baseball to Latin America for over four decades, calling forty-two World Series.
The father of Dave Righetti, Leo Righetti played in the minors for twelve years, eight of them in AAA.
Harry Saferight made it to the majors with Pittsburgh in 1979, but did not appear in a game. He got to the on-deck circle three times, but each time the last out was made before he had a chance to bat.
St. Paul native Mark Wegner has been a major league umpire since 1998.
March 4, 2024: Mother A
Our many condolences to Jeff A. I hope she was peaceful knowing you were there at her side.
Julien Baker w/ Mariah Schneider – Heatwave
I mean that was a pretty hot weekend for...March