The beautiful weather of summer is finally approaching and with the receding of the cold come perfect opportunities to get out with your special someone. Here are two unusual ideas that you may want to look into the next time you want to get out.
Sci Fi Summer Con -
Looking for a good indie concert to round out the month? Here are a couple of talented groups that will be making their way through
Spoon - Fox Theatre
They’ve been around for nearly 20 years and have set many a standard for the independent music scene. 2014 saw the coming of their new album and now they’re out on tour to promote it. So hear the new tunes that these long-time talents have put together as they perform them live.
I don't believe that you can punish employees based on the civil standard of 'more likely than not.' But then again, I don't believe that's what the NFL did. Even though they used that language in their public announcements.
Rick says,
April is almost gone and with the exit of one month brings the entry of another. As this rollover commences, why not see what’s happening that might make a good date idea? Here are two that you may wish to check out.
StuntFest -
There’s never any shortage of excellent music in the
Moody Blues - Fox Theatre Oakland/Ruth Finley Person Theater - April 26th/April 29th
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The Golden Mainframes for this weekend:
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Hanson Brothers Award
And you thought the Angels series was the stuff of behind-the-portables rumble legend. Next series along, we get back-to-back 10th-inning wins ... on the road. That makes twice already in the last 30 years. In 1984, Alvin Davis and Mark Langston were rookies and Gay-lerd Perry had only just retired. (That's how he spelled his name for phonetic purposes, LrKrBoi29.)
Dr. D is way, wayyyy too jaded to put up with sports that fall anywhere short of vicarious disembowelment. The more vicious, lengthy and protracted the athletes' suffering, the better D likes it. We are .03% of the way into this AL West turf war and the carnage is so disgusting that we would need a Nitrous rebreather to enhance our pleasure any further.
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J.A. Happ has many ways to do one thing.
Some of you good buddies wouldn'a seen the little sequence on TV. They showed a split frame of J.A. Happ's two different changeup grips -- one a classic circle change, the other a splitfinger change. The two pitches aren't meant to result in different pitches, not meant to fool the hitter in any way. You know, like a two-seam fastball would run armside to give a different look. He just does it to dink around.
Blowers and Krueger were kinda like, "that's different." Hardly ever saw a pitcher do that before.
In Japan you call something "different" when:
Different is fine, but you've also got to be aware when something has been done for a long time and --- > there is a good reason for doing it that way. "Different" sometimes means that you are oblivious to what has gone on before you. Most cultures in the Eastern Hemisphere value their seniors, much less their ancestors. The state of American society is unusual, where all people 30 years older than you are assumed to be stupid until proven otherwise.
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Q. Who or what is a Buvaisar Saitiev Phenomenon?
A. I wasn't clear after reading the article. Is Mojo saying that James Paxton is:
I'm all right with three of those slanders, most foul and vile though they be. But when you say that James Paxton does not look like napalm at 20 yards ... this, counselor, is going entirely too far.
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Okay, that's four games in a row.
If Dr. D did not know better, he would accuse Taijuan Walker of having a change curve that was among the best in the American League. And a splitfinger that was 5th-year quality.
The Oakland A's better hope not. (Actually they ARE hoping not. You saw Peter Gammons' little anecdote that the A's were praying they didn't draw Taijuan in a Wild Card game? "And that's who they would have gotten.")
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On March 18th, Drew Pomeranz came out spinning curve balls of David Wells quality and vintage. Is Pomeranz going to opt for a 2.35 ERA again this year, as he did last year and as most of Billy Beane's choices usually prefer? I dunno, but can tell you he was throwing like 2.35 ERA on Wednesday.
The lad is one of the 25 to 30 major league starters who use two pitches, and as his career has gone along he's gotten even more hip to his own shtick. The below Fangraphs table counts up his Fastballs - Curves - Changes for yer:
