Should you participate, good luck on your commitments, citizens.
22 thoughts on “March 6, 2019: Quadragesima A.W.”
You Chromebook. Le sigh.
What, is it Sunday already? Maybe something like "Dies Cinerum" would be more accurate.
checks out.
Dictionary.com, Vocabulary.com, Oxford, and Collins will have to duke it out with Merriam-Webster at some point, I guess. Either way, I hadn't heard of the term before.
An acquaintance from here in Minneapolis is kickstarting a board game which looks pretty fun. Thought it might be of some interest to the folk here.
I wonder with Sano slated to miss the beginning of the season if this means he has a chance to break onto the roster
Well, he had a chance before the Sano situation, but it's certainly a better chance now.
I would assume he'll make the opening day roster now. Now he just needs to be awesome right off the bat to keep his foot in the door.
Before Sano was known to be out for the first month, one of the beat writers predicted a bench of Marwin, Garver, Astudillo and then a battle between Cave and Adrianza.
It should say "already saved baseball"
Interesting follow-up to Guns, Germs, and Steel
I finished up the last of the CNN series "The 2000s" on Netflix last night (a good review on certain topics of import) and couldn't help but wonder what aspects of our current time would warrant inclusion in a future "The 2010s" series someday? Well, besides the obvious, of course.
The episodes were:
- The Platinum Age of Television
- Mission Accomplished (9/11 and follow-up)
- Quagmire: Bush's 2nd Term
- The i Decade (dot com collapse, cellphones, Apple, etc)
- The Financial Crisis (housing collapse, Madoff)
- Yes We Can (presidential election, Tea Party, etc)
- I Want My MP3 (digital distribution, transformation of music genres)
the Me Too moment/movement and sexual/gender politics generally (gay marriage, etc.)??
the Global Warming fight (assuming there is enough of a stable economy in the Someday to be able to produce such a series...:-) )
I don't think the Global Warming fight has gotten past the introductions yet, unfortunately.
Alex Trebek was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
MLB.com's Top 10 Catchers This Decade. Mauer didn't qualify because he played less than half his games at catcher this decade, but if you only look at the 3.5 seasons he played at catcher this decade, he still had more rWAR than his former heir apparent, Wilson Ramos, and "Mauer with Pauer" Matt Wieters, although there is still one year left in this decade. And if Yadier Molina is a "for sure" Hall of Famer, then Mauer will be the next unanimous choice.
You Chromebook. Le sigh.
What, is it Sunday already? Maybe something like "Dies Cinerum" would be more accurate.
checks out.
Dictionary.com, Vocabulary.com, Oxford, and Collins will have to duke it out with Merriam-Webster at some point, I guess. Either way, I hadn't heard of the term before.
An acquaintance from here in Minneapolis is kickstarting a board game which looks pretty fun. Thought it might be of some interest to the folk here.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adamsapplegames/thrive-1?ref=project_link
Trigger warning: Trypophobics
Wow. That does look pretty cool. I love the idea of the fabric board, and the whole thing looks beautiful, too. I might have to back that.
Yeah, this looks cool. Very CdL-esque.
Anyone want to do an Appetite post on Monday?
And it should be fish related 😉
'La Tortuga' Is Here To Save Baseball
I wonder with Sano slated to miss the beginning of the season if this means he has a chance to break onto the roster
Well, he had a chance before the Sano situation, but it's certainly a better chance now.
I would assume he'll make the opening day roster now. Now he just needs to be awesome right off the bat to keep his foot in the door.
Before Sano was known to be out for the first month, one of the beat writers predicted a bench of Marwin, Garver, Astudillo and then a battle between Cave and Adrianza.
It should say "already saved baseball"
Interesting follow-up to Guns, Germs, and Steel
I finished up the last of the CNN series "The 2000s" on Netflix last night (a good review on certain topics of import) and couldn't help but wonder what aspects of our current time would warrant inclusion in a future "The 2010s" series someday? Well, besides the obvious, of course.
The episodes were:
- The Platinum Age of Television
- Mission Accomplished (9/11 and follow-up)
- Quagmire: Bush's 2nd Term
- The i Decade (dot com collapse, cellphones, Apple, etc)
- The Financial Crisis (housing collapse, Madoff)
- Yes We Can (presidential election, Tea Party, etc)
- I Want My MP3 (digital distribution, transformation of music genres)
the Me Too moment/movement and sexual/gender politics generally (gay marriage, etc.)??
the Global Warming fight (assuming there is enough of a stable economy in the Someday to be able to produce such a series...:-) )
I don't think the Global Warming fight has gotten past the introductions yet, unfortunately.
Alex Trebek was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
MLB.com's Top 10 Catchers This Decade. Mauer didn't qualify because he played less than half his games at catcher this decade, but if you only look at the 3.5 seasons he played at catcher this decade, he still had more rWAR than his former heir apparent, Wilson Ramos, and "Mauer with Pauer" Matt Wieters, although there is still one year left in this decade. And if Yadier Molina is a "for sure" Hall of Famer, then Mauer will be the next unanimous choice.