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Shame on me. Turned it off in the 5th inning to watch a show with the wife. (To be fair, i have been hogging the living room tv with Mets games as of late, so I thought this was a perfect night for some goodwill). Oops. Before bed, i saw the box score. Didn’t go on social media for recaps- went...

Looking forward to this. I was always a metal head, but crossed paths with some punk along the way. Worked for 2 “pop punk” bands in the early aughts that probably won’t make your list, but they did expose me to some of their influences, so while I’ll leave it up to the experts to decide their...

Loved this book, mostly interviews intertwined to tell the story pf the decade of 80s rock.    Nothin but a Good Time

This is my summer weekend afternoons. Floating in the pool with a book, beer, and baseball on the speaker.

I need to track some of these broadcast suggestions so I can check them out. As a Mets fan, I am so spoiled with Gary Cohen/Keith Hernandez/Ron Darling on tv and Howie Rose on radio. It makes me cringe when we are on national tv because I know the broadcast will be sub-par.    Suggestions so...

And we may have just lost Walker and May in the same game. Uggh. Although Peterson looked good.

That was my first thought, but after calming down… it was game 4 of a 162 game season, condensed by a week and after a short spring training. I’m not crucifying Buck on that one. 

Nats hit 4 Mets batters , 3 up high, in 14 innings. Umps had to do something.

I gave it 2 innings. Then muted the tv, streamed the Mets radio broadcast to a Bluetooth speaker instead. Even with that, the apple tv broadcast missed entire pitches, and when the mets had the bases loaded, they were showing replays full screen with the live broadcast was in the corner. 

Oooh, I didn’t know this existed, going on my list now. I also read the Pines trilogy last summer and loved it.    Just finished Wool and Shift. Loved Wool, Shift was very good, it just took me a while to get into Solo as a character. I have Dust, but taking a quick break to read a library...

deGrom starting today (plan is for 3 innings), with Scherzer coming in “relief”. I know I’m biased, but imagine knocking out the 2 time Cy Young starter only to get the 3 time Cy Young reliever.

18 yo son, Senior in HS, has been working since last summer at a fast food joint. Was working Friday nights and Sunday days, with occasional Saturday shift or coverage during the week if someone called out. He just cut down to 1 Sunday every 2 weeks, as varsity baseball kicked in, plus his final...

Fudd hogs were amazing, you could damn near drop em blindfolded and 3 star a base. Thankfully he gemmed the hell outta them early so we got plenty of use before others caught on and the nerf hit. /SML 

Mets hosting a fanfest type of event on Friday in Port St. Lucie. Intra-squad game, free admission, 1 free beer or soda for everyone. Tickets still needed to be “purchased” to avoid capacity issues, but 4 tickets secured. Looking forward to some spring baseball after all of the lockout BS.

Can’t say I know enough about the Reds roster and payroll, but Reds fans are crucifying management on twitter right now.  No sense hanging onto Luis Castillo and Tyler Mahle at this point. If you're going to cosplay as the Pittsburgh Pirates, you might as well get the whole outfit.