Yesterday was the Best Buddies charity bike ride. I did the 50-mile version, and am sincerely glad I did not do the 100-mile. I have to admit that the longest ride I did in preparation was a 32 mile ride, and I didn’t do it very hard. And I remembered to use sunscreen when I [...]
For folks who think poor folks should just pull themselves up and work harder, this article at the WaPo is a wet-fish slap of reality. It’s sad how you can see decisions coerced by circumstance mingled with decisions due to lack of education, and if you don’t have that education, it can be hard to [...]
An examination of the deceptiveness of curve balls. http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/2009/the-break-of-the-curveball/
M’s beat the A’s 8-7 in a 15 inning game. They were behind until the 9th when Kenji tied it up with his first homer of the year, they remained tied until the 13th when the A’s scored 3 in the top of the inning. Bleh. But the M’s came back and scored 3 in [...]
I’m doing a 50-mile bike ride for Best Buddies, a non-profit for the benefit of the cognitively disabled. Their site is bestbuddies.org, if you want to find out more about them, and you can make a donation for my ride here.
Carlos Silva did his best to lose the game, but fortunately the A’s aren’t exactly a juggernaut right now. Down 6-1 after four, the M’s came back, and with the game tied 7-7 in the bottom of the 9th, Jose Lopez just ground out an at-bat, 14 pitches, with the bases loaded and two outs, [...]
