Baseball Toaster, quit whatever you're doing and read it right now. I absolutely love the way Josh Wilks writes.

Linky-dink:

http://cardboardgods.baseballtoaster...

my mouth literally dropped open when he made that error and i gasped!

ellis? error? can not compute!

... Texas.

This man stands corrected.  

steals fishing trophy:
At the awards ceremony at the Westin Key West, when hearing the news, Boggs was quoted as saying, "I caught two fish and you caught one and you win?" He then grabbed the trophy and ran out of the room.

also, did you know wade boggs once drank 64 beers on a cross country flight? fact.

French art from 1910 depicting life in the year 2000

I find this one ("at school") most intriguing.  Books are being ground up and pumped into children's heads?  And the boy who is working the grinder -- has he been conscripted from a lower socio-economic class into manual labor for the school system, instead of being provided with an equal education?

(Please forgive my Bills fandom creeping over into AN)
He's not out of the woods yet, but this is already amazing news. Just two days ago the same doctors referred to the damage as "catastrophic," and the outlook as "bleak" and "dismal."

Huge kudos to the Miami Project for developing this treatment protocol, and to the Buffalo trainers and doctors for implementing it so quickly and effectively. Marc Buoniconti's injury 20 years ago, which also came while making a tackle with his head slightly down, was the first thing that I though of when Everett went down, so it's fitting that the foundation he and his family helped establish was so key in this case.

I want to skip work and go play in the park with my dog... but he hasn't recovered from his eye injury yet.

Sorry, been away due to a death in the family and have not gotten caught up on my reading.  So, if you've seen this before, too bad.  Beane was wrong, Beane was wrong....

"Today Beane admits that he misjudged Byrnes. "Quite frankly, he's willed himself to be the player he said he could be, and in fairness to him, he told me he was going to do it, and he did.""

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...

Barton was still beaming Tuesday night from his debut.

"I got a false ball at first, and they misspelled my name," laughed Barton, who was acquired from St. Louis — along with Dan Haren and Kiko Calero — in 2004. "I did get the ball, and they had a good time with me."

Isn't the misspelled name thing sort of played at this point?  Is there a minor leaguer who comes up and actually falls for this?  They've got to work on improving their hazing skills.

Why does my Comparitive Historical Linguistics professor feel the need to make me read 50 pages from the Indo-European dictionary? How does reading a dictionary help anything? Especially for a prototypical language. Argh. Um...

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Two years late

dancing and the like with some cool videos...

And then we stumbled upon a brilliant Idea... which I decided to put into action...

A science blog tackles one of nature's great questions: Why did the monkey pee on his feet?

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He may be related to Richard Dawson:

Bogas denied that Thomas had ever been abusive to Browne Sanders and that witnesses will testify "ad nauseum" about Thomas hugging and kissing people — "men, women, black, white, adults, children, in front of his wife and children."

(I might be worried if my lawyer's name was "Bogas.")

Why not use these as a model and make a market in injury bonds?

Kip Wells will "pitch" Thursday against the Reds.