Tales from the Technoverse

Category: baseball

  • Well, That Hurt

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    There are times when I am not sure I am in sync with Tennyson’s “Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”, at least to the extent one applies it to rooting for a sports team. For most of my life I either was a fan of a really lousy…

  • There is No Place Like Gnome

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    So Friday morning when I woke up early, something I unfortunately seem to have inherited from my father who also was an early rising, when I went to my home/office and looked at my computer keyboard I found a gnome hat, made by my wonderful wife Ellen. So naturally the first thing I did was…

  • Walk(ing) Off Wins

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    So for the last three days (and evenings) Ellen and I have walked to Nationals Park from the Gallery Place Metro, a slightly more than two mile walk. And each day (and evening) the Nationals have had a walk-off victory. Saturday it was a double by Wilson Ramos in the bottom of the 9th, after…

  • Our June 2014 Visit to Hilton Head, Baseball Are Us – Part I

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    We have been trying to visit Ellen’s parents every three to four months. When we used to visit them when our kids were younger, we would generally drive. When the kids left the house, we tended to fly (to Savannah, where Ellen’s parents would pick us up). Now we have returned to driving there, however…

  • Visiting Ellen’s Parents & Perhaps The Greatest Name in Baseball Ever

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    We try to visit Ellen’s parents every three – four months or so, they live in Hilton Head SC. When we had kids at home we would drive there, then for a while we flew, but lately we have returned to driving. However, now we try and see new sites and/or experience new events. For…

  • We Are Cornhole

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    Ellen and I try to visit Ellen’s parents in Hilton Head on a regular basis. They are really wonderful people, I am lucky to know them, and they are fun to be with (and visiting Hilton Head even if one does not play golf is pretty good also). Lately we have switched back to driving…

  • Nationals Season Starts Tomorrow

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    Two very nice articles about Nationals players (we will ignore the fact that Sports Illustrated for the second straight year picked the Nationals to win the World Series since we know how well that turned out last year: One about Strasburg:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/nationals-journal/wp/2014/03/30/stephen-strasburg-i-think-the-sky-is-the-limit-with-this-club/ And a somewhat longer one talking about what a great person Ian Desmond…

  • The Beginning of the Nationals 2014 Season

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    So yesterday, Saturday, March 29th, we were able to experience two aspects of the Nationals preceding the Monday opening day game against the New York Mets in New York. We first attended the rainy ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy in Southeast Washington, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/nationals-journal/wp/2014/03/29/ribbon-cut-on-nationals-youth-baseball-academy-in-southeast/.

  • Tastes of Baseball Are In the Air

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    From the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2014/03/27/nationals-park-to-feature-new-food-items/

  • My Second Mention in the Washington Post

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    One of my now favorite sports writers for the Washington Post, Tracee Hamilton, wrote a column today, Olympic hockey rules for overtime and shootouts,  http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/olympics/wp/2014/02/15/olympic-hockey-rules-for-overtime-and-shootouts/. This followed the dramatic eight round shoot-out, technically in International Hockey referred to as Game Winning Shots (GWS), where the U.S. beat Russia in a preliminary round game in hockey 3-2.