Dan Bern – the year-by-year home run totals of the great barry bonds
Had the pleasure once again of seeing Dan Bern in person at Turbo Haus in Saint Henri on Saturday. He played this song and I was stunned as I consider…
baseball
it is designed to break your heart
In between my infrequent posts, the Red Sox’s postseason came and went. As Basil Fawlty says, blink and you missed it. It was a strange baseball season for Sox fans.…
thank you, david ortiz!
Thank you and goodbye.
thank you, vin scully!
The Red Sox are cruising into the postseason, something I didn’t think I’d see during the dog days of summer. Our beloved Big Papi is saying goodbye with a chart-topping…
blue jays vs. royals, library style
Library smackdown? Toronto Public Library vs. Kansas City Library, via Twitter.
How the Jays might affect the election results. Maybe.
Hey fans of sports and politics! Check it out: if the Jays do win the AL East, they will be in the ALDS starting on October 8. Advance polls are…
Does Cuba Get an MLB Team Now?
So, there have been 181 Major League Baseball players from Cuba , 230 from Puerto Rico , and 557 from the Dominican Republic . My friend, who cares not about…
This is the last post on Alberta Diary, sort of: Welcome to AlbertaPolitics.ca
Your blogger with Alberta Premier Jim Prentice. Your blogger with another Alberta premier, whose name escapes him at the moment, and with a former Alberta opposition leader. Maybe it’s evidence…
amazing but true: mlb does the right thing and increases fans’ access to the postseason
The biggest surprise of the 2014 baseball postseason isn’t the absence of both the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. It isn’t the Baltimore Orioles, making the postseason…
keith olbermann: derek jeter is not god. (a must-see!)
Dog, I am a glad this baseball season is over. And not only because the Red Sox finished in last place.
babe ruth was not a fat red sox: thoughts on historical fiction arising from dennis lehane’s "the given day"
I recently read The Given Day, Dennis Lehane’s novel about 1919 Boston, especially the Boston police strike, and the widescale rioting that followed. The book is an engaging hybrid of…
josh lueke is a rapist and why we should continue to say so
Stacey May Fowles has written a incisive, biting, and definitive piece about shaming men who rape. I can scarcely quote from it (although I will), because every word is not…
wmtc winter break goes low-tech
Every year I seem to break the holiest commandment of the holiday season: I’m not busy. I always hear how “everyone is so busy this time of year” and “this…
thank you, 2013 red sox! thank you, david ortiz!
This was a magical season, and the most exciting postseason I’ve seen in a very long time. David Ortiz – the only man to play on the 2004, 2007, and…
in which i survive three days without internet, or how rogers (maybe) punishes former customers
Sometime late on Thursday night into Friday morning, our internet went down. This is the worst possible time for such an event, as internet is our lifeline to baseball, and…
red sox. american league pennant. happy.
The 2013 Boston Red Sox have won the American League Pennant, and the right to play the St. Louis Cardinals in the 110th 109th* Major League Baseball World Series. This…
what this blog has been missing!
It’s strange to be so completely focused on something and not post about it here at all. So… OMG RED SOX That’s better! The 2013 Red Sox continue to thrill…
"hide my ass" is far superior for vpn and wireless vpn
My adventures with VPNs, wireless VPNs, and other fun IP-address changes just keep getting better all the time. My new favourite addition is called HideMyAss – a stupid name, but…
what could baseball, sexual abuse, and pitbulls possibly have in common?
It’s Opening Day! It’s always a long, cold winter for a baseball-only fan, but winters for Red Sox fans have been especially long and cold lately. When was the last…
The Grad School Gospels – Part 3: Academe Can’t Be Your Everything
The Grad School Gospels is a series of posts inspired by Dirk Hayhurst‘s The Bullpen Gospels. In the Bullpen Gospels, Hayhurst tells stories from his struggle to self-actualize through professional…