Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Braves
Diaz back to the Braves. Saw him play in Pittsburgh recently. He wasn't swinging well, but still got on in that game.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Defending the indefensible
Nick Gillespie and David Boaz on Stossel. Good libertarian stuff. Intellectual ammunition.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Flair's follies
To be the man ... Ric Flair's pathetic life outside the ring. From Grantland, via Chris Beckham.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Ron Paul
Jon Stewart asks, Why is he ignored? Answer: Because he's not a Demopublican and really would shake up the game. From The Atlantic.
The environment
Green favorite deep in the red. Mayve they should have made those shitty little light bulbs.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
NFL Rams
Bernie Miklasz on the chances of other Rams from "the Show" to make it to the Hall of Fame. There's one big surprise .... think defense. A good column.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Planning for the planners
Mike Buffington of the Jackson Herald wrote a fine column on the fallacy of over planning.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Movies II
My Dalton buddy Jeff Burr interviewed about his career in horror films. Here is the TRUE story about getting Vincent Price in his first movie.
Movies
How did this sneak up on me? Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a new movie with Gary Oldman as Smiley. The novel is one of my all time favorites.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
Bourn Again
The Braves nabbed a speedy baserunner and smooth fielder when they traded Jordan Schafer and three minor leaguers to the Astros for Michael Bourn. Bourn is having a career year, hitting .303 for a bad team. He's stolen 39 bases in 46 attempts, the kind of numbers Braves haven't seen in a long time. Bourn can play defense and throws well enough.
There are a lot of reasons to be optimistic that he can give the Braves a major boost, but I'd feel better if he were a more pateint hitter and drew more walks. His OBP of .363 is OK by today's standards, but nothing special. If he had the eye to match his feet, that OBP wouldbe more like .400.
He will make about $4 a year this season and hits his first arbitration season in 2012. The year after will likely end in free agency and with Scott Boras for an agent it's hard to see him sticking in Atlanta unless he really stands out.
I would have preferred a big thumper but if Heyward can pull his act together and everyone stay healty for the stretch run, this should be a pretty scary offensive collection.
There are a lot of reasons to be optimistic that he can give the Braves a major boost, but I'd feel better if he were a more pateint hitter and drew more walks. His OBP of .363 is OK by today's standards, but nothing special. If he had the eye to match his feet, that OBP wouldbe more like .400.
He will make about $4 a year this season and hits his first arbitration season in 2012. The year after will likely end in free agency and with Scott Boras for an agent it's hard to see him sticking in Atlanta unless he really stands out.
I would have preferred a big thumper but if Heyward can pull his act together and everyone stay healty for the stretch run, this should be a pretty scary offensive collection.
A shortage of kitchen help
In his fine first book Anthony Bourdain made a strong point that even in the toniest restaurants in the country, the ones with the "world class" chefs, there was a very good chance the food was actually being prepared by an illegal alien from El Salvador or some other South of the Border country. Apparently that's true in a lot of other restaurants as well. Here's an interesting story from the AJC. Thanks to Charles Oliver for first posting this one.
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