MLB Power Rankings – Week 2

Welcome back to the Power Rankings! We've added week over week change in ranking to see who's moving up and who's moving down. This early in the season, there will be large leaps and precipitous tumbles, not necessarily correlating to how good a team actually is. For example, the Giants and Red Sox made the biggest leaps, up 20 and 19 spots respectively. Are…

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The Tigers rebuild, part 1

This post is part of a series. Click here for the introduction. Tigers right now. Tigers soon? The Tigers have won 11 AL pennants (1907, 1908, 1909, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1968, 1984, 2006, and 2012) and 4 World Series titles (1935, 1945, 1968, and 1984). So that's 4 wins in 11 tries in the championship round since 1901, or a trip to the World series…

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Weezers Golden Era

Weezer is one of my all time favorite bands. They put on one of the best shows Ive ever seen live. And their first three albums helped shape my taste in music. With out them the post grunge, pop alternative, neo emo music landscape would have been left with little to offer. This week I decided to make a short, 20 song, playlist of…

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Sufjan Stevens – Meditations

This is the first volume of a five volume series called Convocations. Each album will be released weekly starting today. Is it Christmas or something? This is in the same style as the Aporia album he released last year. It's very ambient and moody. At times, it reminds me of Hans Zimmer film scores or Brian Eno. It has a calming effect, almost hypnotic…

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Buttons

Back in the old days we used to have a sidebar with custom made buttons that let you navigate the site. Everything was hand done, no fancy WordPress or Blogger back then. This is probably my favorite iteration of the buttons. They went along with the "Fire Tacos" theme we created.

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MLB Power Rankings – Week 1

Welcome to our baseball power rankings for 2021! We will look at Stemshul's official 64tacos ranking system each week to see how the teams (and specifically the Tigers) are doing throughout the summer. With the full 162 game schedule back after last year's COVID abbreviated 60 game season, the first few weeks won't be too defining. Among the top 5, you would expect the…

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