Happy b-day Brian! My best birthday memory involves a beer drinking contest. My roommate and I challenged my girlfriend's (now wife) roommates to a beer drinking contest. First group to finish the pitcher won something. What that something was, I have no recollection. Anyway, the girls got their pitcher like 10 minutes before us and we still beat them. Photographic evidence of the aftermath shows me staring drunkenly into a beer bottle for some unknown reason and another of me grabbing my girlfriends chest from behind. My only other real memory from that night involves me telling my roommate to make sure that I came back from the bathroom. I'm not completely sure that I did, but I obviously lived to tell about it.
The only three on the tree that I've driven was a grain truck. Not so much fun to drive. None whatsoever. If driving around the metro area didn't suck so bad with a stick, I'd have one. I also enjoyed driving manuals. Automatics take some of the fun out of driving. Traffic takes the rest of it.
I was hoping somebody would post something like this. I didn't figure it was too realistic to expect a winning team next season, but at least it's been done. Regardless, for next season the playoffs should not be the goal, getting back to .500 should be. That'll be difficult enough.
When Leo Mazzone left Atlanta to go to Baltimore, the staffs that he had there weren't all that good either. It's not as though he forgot how to coach by heading north. Talent has a lot to do with results. The best coaches find a way to maximize what talent a player does possess though.
Thanks for the insight, Parker. Honest question. Will adjusting the arm angle as he rears back also, at least potentially, change his arm slot on the forward throwing motion? If so, could that impact the movement on the pitches?
Fall baseball at Target Field is great. It always killed me to go to the Dome on a beautiful fall day/evening knowing how few of those days remained before the snow flew. It's underrated in my view.