*Well, I am not, but my photos are! Raise your hand if you had guessed that my first magazine cover would be a gay magazine in Palm Springs…or that my silly pictures would ever be featured on any magazine! Nobody? Yeah, I didn’t think so either. And yet: YEEEEEAAAHHH!
Category Archive: Quickies
Jun 02
Goodbye, Lucas May. We hardly knew ye.
Lucas May came to the Royals in the Scott Podsednik trade last summer. Today, he was traded to the Diamondbacks, for righty Andrea Pizziconi. (I can already hear Ryan LeFebvre having fun with that name on a broadcast.) (Thanks to Greg Schaum for alerting me that I am stupid, and missed the fact that Pizziconi’s …
May 30
Travelogue Preview
Long story short, I have been in Palm Springs, California for two weeks, and I took about a week to get here. For an English class, I am writing a travelogue sort of thing, which will be excerpted here periodically. As a sort of preview, here is an image I’m using to help describe the …
May 02
Super awesome Storm Chasers photos!
Due to an 11th-hour scheduling change, I got to go to Sunday’s Chasers game as a fan, for the first time ever. It was also probably my last game before I leave for California, but that’s neither here nor there. I took a bunch of pictures, and it would be awesome if you’d go look …
Apr 28
The BASEketball opening sequence sounds like a George F. Will column
Tonight, a friend asked if I would provide a handwriting sample for her, for some kind of project. She needed a few paragraphs, written in cursive, and it didn’t matter what I wrote. So I chose to write down the opening voice-over part from BASEketball. And I found that, if you strip away the video …
Apr 11
Random survey: How do you pronounce “Coupon?”
The show “Extreme Couponing” is MESMERIZING. I had it on in the background while doing some cleaning, and was inspired to ask on Twitter: Do you pronounce the word “coupon” like “coo-pon” or “cyoo-pon”? So far, we’ve got 9 for coo-pon, 4 for cyoo-pon (which would have been more clear as Q-pon), and one for …
Apr 07
Lastings Milledge couldn’t quite get under this
Lastings Milledge couldn’t quite get under this, originally uploaded by Minda Haas. …and now he’s been DFA’d.
Apr 07
So that game happened.
Alex Gordon had to LEAP up over him!, originally uploaded by Minda Haas. What an exhausting day. Please go enjoy the photos I took, while dwelling on your Off Day boredom!
Apr 02
The ‘On Pace for 162 Homers’ Club: Day 2
This is exactly what it sounds like. I’ll keep doing this until nobody is on pace for 162 home runs. All of the guys from yesterday are gone already, but of course, anyone could re-enter the Club by homering twice tomorrow! JP Arencibia hit TWO today, plus a triple. Jose Bautista John Buck (Grand Slam, …
Apr 01
The ‘On Pace for 162 Homers’ Club: Day 1
This is exactly what it sounds like. I’ll keep doing this until nobody is on pace for 162 home runs. Mike Aviles Ryan Braun Pat Burrell Jeff Francoeur Carlos Gomez Curtis Granderson Ramon Hernandez Jason Heyward Matt Holliday Toriiiiiiiiiiiii Hunter Jeff Mathis Cameron Maybin Drew Stubbs Mark Teixiera Joey Votto Rickie Weeks