Rode the Orange Dart back to the airport today. Platform basically right outside the hotel. Cost $6 (if they actually charged my card). At one point someone got on with barking dogs (tiny ones) but they got off at the next stop. Twelve stars, would do again.
Worst part of Dallas was the cab. Guy did 55 in a 70 in a clunker sedan, cost me like $85 for DFW to downtown. Back home my guy’s doing mid-90s in a flawless Kia Sportage and I think we’re now best friends.
The beer is an Oak Cliff Lager, made in town. With the caveat is drink about six beers each year, this one absolutely hits the spot. (Seriously though, the symphony was wonderful and that’s from someone who worships the CSO.)
A spectacular Dallas Sunday. Enjoyed a stellar symphony concert and about to dine at @thepressbox.bsky.social (not formally affiliated, but close enough, right?) where bar patrons are inexplicably riveted by the Lightning-Canadiens game (and cheering loudly for the boys from Montreal).
Legend isn’t a big enough word. Like peak Terry Boers, the heyday of this show might be the ultimate in IYKYK Radio. (In other words, Flyover Rushmore.)
I should not use text to talk without proofreading before hitting send.
My grandparents seem to a game down there around that era. I’m hoping I have a ticket stuff somewhere. The main thing I remember is my grandpa missed a walk off grand slam because he went to warm up the car. In August. In Davenport. Iowa.
Anyone who doesn’t grasp the importance of the bands (and other stuff) to the appeal of college sports needs a head check. People accept/embrace a lower level of play specifically because of the atmosphere!
I see it with kids too. You can go 0-4 when your buddies each get two doubles. It all evens out over a season but every day at least one guy gotta make a real contribution!
Not everyone needs to be hot at once, but neither can the entire lineup/rotation/pen go cold.
Is this a cry for help?
Check out how many Minnesota hockey players were on Olympic teams too.
Less obnoxious as a nightcap. If this series is those three games as originally scheduled I’m spiraling.
Do we get a bonus point for catching the “Waiting For Cadeau” reference?
The package is $150 and it gets more attractive each year, but I’d pay $300 if it also made it so my TV only showed baseball. Live MLB, preferably, but I’m not picky.
NEWS: My next book, ZERO CONTAINMENT, will be out in Fall 2027! It's a detective story about how everything went so wrong before, during, and after the Eaton Fire; and how we recover and rebuild in its wake. I have lived this nightmare for over a year, and now I get to share what I've learned.
Only to qualify for a denominational scholarship.
(The “my first game in person" part is an admission that maybe they put that cool info on the board all last season, but if it's new, it's super cool to a glove work nerd.)
Today was my first game in person since the combined no-hitter in 2024. They made this the play of the game, displaying a sprint speed of 18.9 ft/s, the throw was 79.6 mph and, most impressively (to me) a 1.13 exchange speed.
With the best IFs, it's like trying to follow a sleight of hand magician.
Brett Butler, as we are from the same hometown/church. Too may personal connections to list, but also “scrappy” is admirable when you yourself are undersized (and peaked in T-ball).
That would make sense. I know he had some major MSG houses.
Where was this? McMillan and I are from the same town and I love to feed info on him to our local sports historian (who has also coached high school wrestling since time immemorial).
Both teams are home Saturday (duh, this is how baseball works) and demand immediately changes. Having SeatGeek now means driving near the ballpark and picking seats after you get there. (I know this is not like a life hack but still.)
I could go to Wrigley or Milwaukee today but I have seen the weather forecast, ticket prices and parking situations and hey look, a nearby restaurant has several televisions!
I know it’s a simple typo but “fire domino” is now a concept I can’t stop pondering. Both literally and as an idiom.
I’m woefully behind on episodes right now. Still worth playing even if I won’t catch up for weeks?
I’m no NBA expert, but it seems when you get to a point where a team can likely only be a true contender with three elite players that maybe 24 more active roster spots (and two full payrolls) would yield some desirable parity.
Robert DeNiro’s mole accounts for at least 10 feet.
The AP announced this change on March 18, 2011.
Getting to meet amazing kids like this, and their families, is a great reason to accept the task when one of your old buddies suggests you’d make a decent Little League coach. Also he’s really good at baseball, but that part is a bonus.