The Artful Dodgers rise to the top. Week 3 is here, and the Los Angeles Dodgers have risen to the top. The Dodgers were most people's choice as the best team in baseball preseason, and they're doing it with both great offense (5.22 runs per game, 4th in the league) and great pitching (2.67 ERA, good for 3rd). They have the best record and,…
Look out, serial killers, Charles Bronson is coming for your ass. After having watched a few Death Wish movies, I decided to try something similar but not exactly the same. The biggest difference here is that the character, Leo Kessler, is a detective who takes some liberties with the law, but is not quite the full-on vigilante revenge killer as Paul Kersey from the…
This post is part of a series. Click here for the introduction. Click here for part 1. Randy Smith rocking the Uncle Joey look. The first GM hire I remember taking note of for the Tigers was Randy Smith in 1996, so we'll begin our front office review there. Randy Smith came from the San Diego Padres, where he became the youngest GM in baseball history…
Definitely do not watch this 3+ hour monstrosity, either.
This is the second installment of the Convocations series. As the name implies, this one is a bit more sad than the previous one, though not a lot sadder. Sometimes it is eerie, like in the track number VI. Mostly, it is more repetitive and less fulfilling than the Meditations volume. I've listened to it 3 full times now and only a couple tracks…
I went and got my first Covid 19 vaccine 3 weeks ago. (Team Pfizer!) I had signed up through our local mega health system. After a couple months of bi-weekly reminders that I was on the list I got an email that I could make an appointment. I called the number and got scheduled. They even set up my second does in the same…
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…
