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Sports Programmers Are Idiots

Yep, this is another disgruntled post about baseball. This is the first Saturday afternoon I've gotten home before the MLB Game of the Week is scheduled to start. The possible matchups: Cardinals vs. Phillies, White Sox vs. Tigers, and the Twins vs. Angels. If you look over to the column at the left, you will see that I live in Utah, just 20 minutes north of Salt Lake City. We have a AAA baseball team here that is affiliated with the Angels, the Salt Lake Bees . You'd think some programmer would make note of that. Wrong . What do we get to see? St. Louis @ Philadelphia. Yeah, Salt Lake is such a National League town. I wonder if the decision was made by our local Fox station ? I hope not, because this way I can attribute it to some nameless suit in a boardroom somewhere, and not someone who's supposed to know about sports locally. It's interesting to note that we are in the Colorado Rockies broadcasting area. But we don't get any of their games on radio or te

Doctor Who and the Fashionistas

Within days of releasing pictures of the newest regeneration of the Doctor , the fashion police are critiquing his wardrobe. Read about it in BBC News Magazine . Interesting how comments on changes to the Tardis have been rather quiet.

Forty years ago today ...

I was glued to the television in our apartment on the south side of Fargo watching Neil Armstrong take that "one small step." NASA's Apollo 11 40th Anniversary site. NASA's Apollo 11 multimedia library . Just one more of those "where were you when" moments.

Damn Yankees

Anthony DiComo, MLB.com's beat writer for the Yankees said it concisely: For the first time since 2003, the Yanks swept the Twins in a season series. You can read all about it at this link . At least the Twins won't have to play the Yankees again this season. So there is a silver lining on this dark cloud. And I hate having to say something nice about the Yankees.