Baseball’s back!
Seeing as my NCAA March Madness bracket is officially shot (actually, most people's brackets are--out of almost 6 million ESPN brackets, only TWO picked the Final Four of Butler, VCU, Kentucky, and UConn), I'm now looking forward to ...
Baseball season!!
Looking forward to the Mariners' visit to Baltimore in May and the Dodgers' visit to DC in September; and I'm definitely going to try to catch the Ms when I head to Seattle in July.
Yessssss ...
Links of the Day, October 7
Happy birthday, Barcode! Also, baseball playoffs start today--go Dodgers!
News
- One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda's 1994 genocide has been arrested.
- Obama's Afghanistan strategy will not involve withdrawing troops.
- He's also pursuing urban renewal.
- Pasadena Chief of Police Bernard Melekian steps down to take up a post in DC.
- Another ring is discovered around Saturn.
Health care
- Fox News' Shep Smith schools Rep. John Barrasso (WY) on the public option--I'm generally not a huge fan of Fox News, but Shep Smith is one redeeming feature.
- If you had five minutes to tell me why a public option is a good thing ...
Human trafficking
- The Metropolitan Police is considering disbanding its human trafficking team. What--is the problem solved already?!
Finance reform
- How private equity firms make billions by driving companies into bankruptcy.
Miscellaneous
- Charts to help you succeed in online dating.
- Check out the US electric grid.
- Secretary of Education Arne Duncan guests on the Colbert Report.
- The Minnesota Twins edge out the Detroit Tigers in an extra-innings one-game playoff to get to the postseason. (I wouldn't bet against the Yankees clobbering them, though ...)
- GOOD Magazine illustrates the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Mariners, 85-77
Yesterday marked the end of regular season baseball, and the Seattle Mariners went 85-77, marking the biggest improvement from last year in the major leagues. After losing 101 games last year, let's just say that expectations were fairly low. But rookie manager Don Wakamatsu did a phenomenal job in leading us back to respectability.
Even though we didn't make it into the postseason, it was a good year. Thanks to the folks at Lookout Landing for keeping me company through 162 games.
Here's to Felix for the Cy Young. And for the playoffs, I'll be rooting for my (other) hometown Dodgers.