After six straight days in a department that I'm still not comfortable with and the harsh news of finding out I'll have a new manager soon because the old one slept with another employee at a company retreat (oops!), I finally have a day off. I could use this one.
Happy Birthday–August 28
Joe Yeager (1875)
Dode Paskert (1881)
Aaron Ward (1896)
Charlie Grimm (1898)
Paul Bowa (1918)
Tony Gonzalez (1936)
Tom Satriano (1940)
Lou Piniella (1943)
Mike Torrez (1946)
Ron Guidry (1950)
Joel Youngblood (1951)
Darren Lewis (1967)
Jay Witasick (1972)
Tom Shearn (1977)
Carlos Quentin (1982)
Paul Bowa is the father of Larry Bowa and the grandfather of Nick Johnson. He was a minor league infielder who reached as high as AAA, and later became a minor league manager in the St. Louis Cardinals' organization.
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to bhiggum.
The Go! Team – The Power Is On
And now for something completely different.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtZAVBY2lAg
Jools, 2007
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Loading... 2012 Game 128: Mariners at Twins
First Pitch - 7:10 p.m. CDT
Television - FSN
Poor Liam Hendriks. Just his second game back in the show after spending most of the summer in Rochester and he's pitted against King Felix, who rolled a perfect game just a couple of weeks ago. Twelve strikes in a row, a Thanksgiving turkey. But Felix wasn't just the king for that one game this season, he's been pretty awesome throughout. In just his last 13 outings he's won eight and lost none while holding hitters to a .184 batting average. Yeah, the dude has the unique abilitiy to turn everyone he faces into something worse than Drew Butera or Danny Valencia with a bat in their hands. Hernandez has led something of a second half surge for the Mariners with team going 25-16 since the All-Star break. Hendriks is also going into tonight's game without much in the way of backup. The bullpen is pretty gassed after throwing a ton of innings in the Texas series. So I wouldn't expect much from the Twins' pitching staff tonight, and not much from the offense, either. If you need a reason to watch, we might see Joe Mauer break the franchise records for games caught if he crouches behind the plate tonight. I used to know who holds the record, but I Earl Battey'd the guy. That's got to be worth tuning in for one inning, anyway. Is it football season yet? Basketball? Hockey? Bueller? Anybody? Bueller?
Play ball!
Iron-y
The beatings will continue until morale improves the vjs post new stuff.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaTOMkHaET4
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Loading... Minor League Team Leaders: New Britain
Oswaldo Arcia should get a September call-up, too.
Minor League Team Leaders: Rochester
Esmerling Vasquez should get a September call-up.
Minor Details: Games of 8/26
Matt Carson puts the “double” in doubleheader. The Twins won’t give Anthony Slama a chance, but could he really be worse than Jeff Gray? Comebacks go for naught in New Britain and Elizabethton. Miguel Sano has a big day for Beloit.
WGOM Fitness: August 27, 2012
Yesterday, I went to the gym and did 50 minutes on the bike. Instead of just doing the fat burn setting, I did somewhat of an interval program in which I moved from 65% to 80% of my max heart rate and sat at each for 3 minute intervals. It took a long time to move from one to the other, so there wasn't that much interval work going on, but it was a little harder workout than what I had been doing.
I ate my meals, except that I didn't take my last snack last night. I felt a little hungry when I went to bed last night, for sure. When I stepped on the scale this morning, wow, I guess I might have been a little hungry: down 1.9 pounds. In addition to the bike work, I also worked in the yard and I worked up a little sweat.
Tomorrow is a travel day. Twayn, if you want to post, go ahead.
Day 34
Weight: 265.4
Total Loss: 19.1
August 27, 2012: Black IPA
I was able to crack open my batch of Black IPA last night. I'm getting pretty good at this homebrewing thing (no, not cheaptoy good or anything).