many, many thanks to sheenie for an awesome guest DJ week. to hang a coda on it, here's a nawlins institution: the honorable professor longhair.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBSN7WOPkQ0
i really wish i could have found a performance of "misery", but this is essential the same song, though the words are a bit mushier.
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Loading... It's pretty mind-blowing, and in this season, not ridiculously crowded. Hint hint, guys.
Pat Pieper (1886)
Nemo Leibold (1892)
Wally Pipp (1893)
Ed Brandt (1905)
Red Barber (1908)
Rod Dedeaux (1914)
Roger Craig (1930)
Cliff Gustafson (1931)
Dick Bosman (1944)
Dave Roberts (1951)
Jaime Easterley (1953)
Mike Hart (1958)
Michael Jordan (1963)
Scott Williamson (1976)
Juan Padilla (1977)
Josh Willingham (1979)
Pat Pieper was the public address announcer for the Chicago Cubs from 1916-1974. For the first sixteen of those years, he made the announcements with a megaphone.
Rod Dedeaux and Cliff Gustafson were highly successful college baseball coaches, Dedeaux with USC and Gustafson with Texas.
Already known as a basketball star, Michael Jordan played one year of minor league baseball for AA Birmingham in the White Sox organization before returning to the less-challenging sport.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMMLb39RJOQ
I end my week traveling up the Mississippi with local rap on The Current. Couldn't get more Minneapolis-ish than this, at least for me.
(3 votes, average: 7.00 out of 10)Loading... After limping to the finish line of last month, I've gotten back in the saddle, the bike saddle, that is. Continue reading WGOM Fitness: 16 February 2013, Back in the Saddle
Doug Bernier was signed to a minor league contract and assigned to Rochester.
Antone Richardson was signed to a minor league contract.
Rafael Perez was signed to a minor league contract.
Chih-Wei Hu was assigned to the GCL Twins.
Leonel Zazueta was assigned to the GCL Twins.
Pittsburgh (finally) signs Francisco Liriano to a one-year contract.
Alex Ferguson (1897)
Parnell Woods (1912)
Creepy Crespi (1918)
Atsushi Aramaki (1926)
Bobby Darwin (1943)
Terry Crowley (1947)
Bob Didier (1949)
Glenn Abbott (1951)
Jerry Hairston (1952)
Barry Foote (1952)
Bill Pecota (1960)
Eric Bullock (1960)
Dwayne Henry (1962)
Jerome Bettis (1972)
Eric Byrnes (1976)
Parnell Woods was an infielder in the Negro Leagues for fourteen years. He later became the business manager for the Harlem Globetrotters.
Atsushi Aramaki was a dominant pitcher in Japan in the 1950s and is a member of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.
Better known as an NFL running back, Jerome Bettis is a part-owner of the Altoona Curve and the State College Spikes.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8pG5ep-PUE
(4 votes, average: 7.25 out of 10)Loading... I'm going to the Grand Canyon today. In fact, I may be there when you read this, because we're getting up stupidly early (late?) to drive four hours and see the sunrise there.