When I purchased my tickets for Friday's Pirates-Mets game, I didn't realize I was buying into "Skyblast: Strike 2." For the uninitiated, Skyblast has been a popular promotion sponsored by the Pirates to draw crowds despite the performance of the … [Continue reading]
Jason Bay debuts for Red Sox
Jason Bay is off to a great start in Boston. In his first game Friday, he walked in his first at-bat. He made a sliding catch in the outfield. He tripled in the bottom of the 12th inning and scored the winning run. In fact, he scored both runs for … [Continue reading]
Most traffic ever!
The Mark Whitaker/Mark Whittaker "confusion" resulted in 52 visits to MarkWhittaker.com on Tuesday, and 83 page views. A record day for this lowly, humble blog! It would have been nice to get comments from some visitors, though. … [Continue reading]
No, no … that’s the OTHER Mark Whitaker
Just to help anybody who may have Googled me by mistake, here's the Washington Post short about the appointment of Mark Whitaker to replace Tim Russert as chief of the NBC News Washington bureau. I've been aware of Mark's career for a long time. … [Continue reading]
2nd place
A long softball season ended today with a second-place tournament finish for my church team. We had a couple of close games today. We got into the championship game by beating Discovery Church 7-5. In the final game, St. Killian Blue came back … [Continue reading]
Dear Daryl Metcalfe …
Dear Rep. Metcalfe (may I call you Daryl?), I am in receipt of your letter dated, um, well it's not dated, but I received it Monday or Tuesday. Anyway, it's the letter you started with "A despicable act of fraud has been and is being committed … [Continue reading]