by Geoff Young on Mar 31, 2011
Well, it’s here. First, we have links to whet your appetite…
by Geoff Young on Mar 23, 2011
We got a late start on Saturday and didn’t arrive at the ballpark until 12:30 p.m., which meant missing all the morning practices. We sat in Section 119, up along the foul line in left field — close to the action but at a severe angle. The Cubs had come to Peoria and so had [...]
by Geoff Young on Mar 04, 2011
My favorite color is red… no, blue. Next?
by Geoff Young on Feb 07, 2011
We had an open thread here on Friday, and I learned a lot. First, I learned that open threads are fun, so we’ll be doing more in the future; they may become a semi-regular feature. Second, I got some insightful answers to the questions I posed…
by Geoff Young on Jan 11, 2011
I hate prospect lists because they imply a level of certainty that doesn’t exist. That said, the process of creating such a list helps clarify where an organization’s strengths and weaknesses lie. Besides, other people love them and I am nothing if not a man of the people.
by Geoff Young on Dec 03, 2010
If there is a worse way to travel than by airplane, I’d just as soon not know about it. Anywho, I’m back from Hawai’i with links…
by Geoff Young on Oct 22, 2010
I dreamed of Jeff Reardon. We were discussing the nature of regret. I was walking through a park with a girl I once knew. We held hands as we walked and then kissed. I woke up and made coffee, only I wasn’t awake and I wasn’t making coffee. Dreams are confusing. Let’s just do links [...]
by Geoff Young on Sep 16, 2010
Life has kept me from watching as much baseball as I would like in recent weeks. Nothing serious… I mean, it’s just life after all. I did manage to catch bits and pieces of the series in Denver. It should come as no great surprise that I have some thoughts on the games, nor that [...]
by Geoff Young on Sep 03, 2010
What are hopes, what are plans? –Johann Christof Friedrich von Schiller Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know. –Louis Armstrong As you can see, I’ve located the copy of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations that eluded me the other day. It was right in front of me, on a bookshelf full of many familiar baseball titles, [...]
by Geoff Young on Sep 01, 2010
It’s all about expectations. If you’d told me before the season that the Padres would have 76 wins on September 1, I’d have been thrilled. If you’d told me the same on August 25, when they won their 76th game, not so much. Bad time for a six-game losing streak. Then again, is there ever [...]
Finder of Books, Keeper of Dreams
by Geoff Young on Sep 03, 2010 (7) Comments
What are hopes, what are plans? –Johann Christof Friedrich von Schiller Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know. –Louis Armstrong As you can see, I’ve located the copy of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations that eluded me the other day. It was right in front of me, on a bookshelf full of many familiar baseball titles, [...]