No trip to St. Louis would be complete without seeing the 10-time World Champion Cardinals play at home. They’ve got a beautiful new park that opened in 2006. It felt similar to Safeco and the other new-style parks. We went on Memorial Day, braving the steamy 90-degree weather and sellout crowd. (Everyone else is still [...]
2-for-2 hitting lefty the other night. Ugly looking swings but got the job done. And no trips to the hospital, which was priority #1. (I’d planned on being a spectator, but we were short on guys.) I’m slowly regaining some strength and mobility. Hope to be able to swing righty with some authority again soon. [...]
There I was, rounding first like I do several times a week without incident, when my cleats hit a hard patch of ground and come out from under me. Instinctively I put my arm out to stop the fall. In hindsight, that was dumb. I heard a “noise” … snap, crackle or pop, and limped [...]
For me it’s my baseball-turned-softball glove. Obviously it way too big at the time, but now 20 years later it fits great. The leather is worn paper thin, so if I catch anything wrong I definitely feel it. And it’s a little floppy up by the finger tips, which makes it hard to snowcone a [...]
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On Facebook, 111,389 people “like” Ticketmaster. These 111,389 people are lying. No one likes Ticketmaster. Here’s why. Their monopoly. If you want to buy primary-market tickets for a game or a show, you have one choice. This lack of competition leads to customer-unfriendly policies, because they know they’re the only game in town. Following the [...]
My inaugural Major League Soccer experience with the San Jose Earthquakes was a wet one. Pouring rain so hard, in fact, that we left at halftime. Photo credit: Ben. But the silver lining was we got these free t-shirts. At first I didn’t think it was too cool that it said Amway in huge font [...]
