TBWAIN - AKA Jeff Svare's Blog

... When after 3 1/3 innings of work the reliever (who came on after an inning and 2/3rds) gives up a home run on the first pitch, walks a guy on 9 pitches (the same guy who struck out twice earlier in the same game), and then gives up another first pitch homer to tie the game! I love this game!

Through last night the Twins have played five games against the White Sox. They dropped both games of the last series, which moved them from a tie for first place, to two games back. These teams don't meet again until August 15. The Twins wrap their last road trip in Chicago on 22-25 September when they play four games before finishing the season at home agains the Royals and Tigers. In total, they play the ChiSox 13 more times this season. Last night's loss was a real tough one. Brad Radke's game score was 53, compared to Hernandez' 54. Brad is now 1-3, and Hernandez is 2-1 this season, with both wins coming against the Twins. Two of Brad's losses were to the ChiSox. This is certainly shaping up to be a tough series. It would be nice if the Twins had wrapped this series with at least a tie. Now they have to depend on other teams to beat Chicago and for them to win most of their series just to stay close until August. Checking out the scoring on these las...

Through the first 7 games of the season the Minnesota Twins have scored 29 runs and have allowed their opponents 29 runs. The Twins have not scored earlier than the third inning in any game, and have scored a total of 6 runs through the first three innings of those games. Their opponents have scored 17 runs through the first three innings, 12 in the first inning alone. They have scored 5 runs durring the middle innings, and 7 in the last three. The Twins have scored 17 runs during the middle innings, and 5 during the last three. In tonight's game, the Twins allowed a run in the first and second innings, keeping that streak of letting the opponent draw first blood. Then they allowed two more in the sixth. This time, Minnesota scored five runs in the first inning, the first time they scored in the opening frames this season. They followed up with two more in the fourth, and another in the eighth. 'Bout time they started scoring early in the game. Keep it up, guys! Congrats...

Or, When Bad Research Stays Bad. Okay, just for a minute, let's look at the way the children are listed on the family group sheet for Torjus Gahrsen and Guri Thorsdatter : 1. Serene, b. 1822 2. Gahr, b. 1807 3. Anne, b. 1809 4. Tor, b. 1812 5. Anne Gurine, b. 1812 6. Thor, b. 1814 7. Nils, b. 1816 8. Wils, b. 1816 9. Peder, b. 1819 10. Serine Targer There, b. 1822 11. Tarjer Serine, b. 1822 12. Martin Albert, b. 1852 Anyone see any problems here? There's plenty. I'll follow the numbering I used in the previous post to list the problems that I see here. Third: List children in birth order. That means the first child should be Gahr, who is supposedly born in 1807. Not Serene who was born in 1822. This ties nicely into my fourth point: Eliminate redundant data. Or in this case, duplicate individuals. If you aren't familiar with the Rules of Data Normalization you may want to take a look. While written to apply to relational databases, the principles apply to genea...

... genealogical research, that is. During the Computerized Genealogy conference a few weeks back I was going throught the vendor area and saw a demo of PRFMagnet. This is a cool program that will access Pedigree Resource File data to build a pedigree from submitted databases. This can give you a quick overview of previous research, which can be very helpful when you get started on a new line. That's the good part. The bad and ugly parts are when you start analyzing the results it delivers. Now, this isn't the program's fault. I think the program is flat-out fantastic for being a niche product. The problem is the data that has been put into Pedigree Resource File. For example, while I was there a fellow asked to see what the program would retrieve for Serena Evensen, who was one of Archibald Gardner's plural wives, and who, supposedly, has ancestry traceable back to the first century, AD. I've created a PDF file from the data in Pedigree Resource File showi...