17 thoughts on “February 29, 2020: Go For It!”

    1. Here, too. I know we have all of March to go through, and there's plenty of time for snowstorms. But once in a while we just get an early spring. Maybe it'll happen this year.

  3. I have had more than enough Disney World for one lifetime (and we still have two days left!). I don't think I'll ever come back, and people who do this multiple times per year are nut jobs.

      1. I did learn that the time share people can spot a northerner from miles away when it's 50 degrees outside.

        1. i work with a lady that has one of those timeshares. she blows thousands of dollars every year (on top of the timeshare) taking her daughter and grandchildren there. i... don't understand it.

          1. Its $20k just for the privilege to pay for a trip down here once a year for fifty years. Nutso. The only way i might, might be willing to come back would be when the kids are old enough to go to the parks by themselves and i can sit at the resort sipping stadium priced mai tais.

      1. We only planned a half day at Epcot yesterday. We made it about three hours before we were dunzo.

    3. I went once with just my wife during the offseason and it was ok. Took the kids when it was busy and it sucked. I will never go back.

      1. Like, we had some good times (the Millennium Falcon ride is pretty cool, although me and my daughter were pilots and she started crying because she said she couldn't steer it, so I ended up doing both controls at the same time), and the kids love meeting all the characters. But by day three, we're all so tired that no one wants to do anything but fight with each other. It's just not worth it.

        Plus, I miss my dog and cats.

        1. In spite of living only an hour away, we managed to keep my kids from knowing that Disneyland was an actual place you could go for years.

          My wife’s sister came out here in the fall, and we all went. My kids thought it was... ok. There were parts they liked (the Millennium Falcon ride and whole Star Wars area was pretty cool, they liked driving the cars, Pirates of the Caribbean), but it wasn’t something they’ll be clamoring to do again any time soon.

          Part of it was they are scared of any ride that moves fast at all, don’t like getting jostled around in the motion simulator rides, and aren’t interested in meeting the characters. That doesn’t leave much they actually want to do. We’ve been to Legoland a bunch of times, and it’s far more their speed. And for us, it’s much cheaper with WAY shorter lines.

  4. Joe Pos's story on Mike Trout in his Top 100 baseball players series includes a story about Trout's dad, Jeff, who was drafted by the Twins and was a great hitter in the minors. He dominated AA in '86 and the Twins refused to start him in AAA in '87. He asked for his release, but the Twins said he was too good to release, so he refused to report and eventually ended up retiring and never played again.

    He was an infielder and would have been nice to have someone to challenge Steve Lombardozzi at second more than Al Newman did.

    1. He played three seasons at AA (ages 23-25) and hit a nice but not overwhelming 295/379/408. Looks like he had injury problems? 130 games that first season, but only 95 and 105 the next two, respectively.

      In 1986, his last year, the primary 3b at AAA Toledo was a 29-year old Marty Castillo, backed up by 31-year old Scott Ullger. Castillo hit 251/306/369 and was out of baseball after the season. Ullger hit 262/343/404 and came back for another year of it in 1987. Neither, obviously, was going to challenge Gaetti. But I can see why Trout would have been frustrated.

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