jmf

There are many reasons to want A-Rod on your team. There are also many reasons I don’t want Arod on my team. I’ll keep this short. If you could have A-RoidRod for 27 million dollars in 2009, or you could have an excellent starting pitcher and proven postseason player, one of the [...]

[Read more →]

Some pretty cool sailing pictures from boston.com, more from the link.

[Read more →]

Finally, an America’s Cup challenger to root for:
The Sailing Anarchy Yacht Club (SAYC) today confirmed its entry in the 33rd America’s Cup to be contested in the waters off Valencia, Spain in 2010 or 2011. Known as Anarchy Challenge, SAYC’s racing syndicate will draw upon the immense resources of the world’s most popular sailing website, [...]

[Read more →]

Thanks for that swing

Thanks for making us expect the unexpected from you

Thanks for being Manny

Thanks for the helmet flips

Thanks for the championships

Thanks for giving it your all (when necessary)

Thanks for making us smile

Thanks for the homers

Thanks

and thanks to various sources for the images, all found here.

[Read more →]

So I was searching around on Wikipedia today. For some reason I ended up on the list of all the Baseball Hall of Fame inductees (can’t quite remember how I ended up there), which shows the percentage of the vote that each player received. Tom Seaver was the highest percentage vote getter, at [...]

[Read more →]

Well, since I kind of stopped paying attention to this for a while, I never said anything about how Nationals turned out. So even though the 4 people that will actually read this were either there or have already heard about how it turned out, I’m writing anyway.
So the event was held out of [...]

[Read more →]

So I previously had no problem with the Rays, or the Devil Rays before them. They were never much of a threat in the AL East, and I liked their style. A team full of young, fast, underpaid guys. They seemed like they would be a great team to root for. [...]

[Read more →]

The new format for ICSA Dinghy Nationals showed up just in time for my last season. We qualified for the championship in Newport, June 2-4 after finishing 5th this weekend at the Western Semi-Finals at USC. Of the schools that qualified for Nationals, 8 are from NEISA (New England conference, including BC, UVM, [...]

[Read more →]

As close to March Madness as college sailing will ever get?
http://www.collegesailing.org/news/2008coedbrackets.pdf
and the story.

[Read more →]

After Brett Favre’s retirement, the Green Bay Press-Gazette said it distributed 50,000 extra editions at $1 per copy on Tuesday for its Favre coverage, the newspaper’s first extra edition since Sept. 11, 2001. More here.

[Read more →]