Currently reading: The Last Week - What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem by Marcus J. Borg 📚
I’ve read this book a few times during Holy Week and doing it again this year.
It is only the second game, but I am already liking this Cubs lineup. Three runs on one hit that is not a home run is not something we saw much since 2016.
RSS is the main way that I gather what I read online and I have been using it for a couple of decades. Not much has changed in how RSS readers (aggregators) work but today I found something intriguing that I would like to have.
I am ready
Happy opening day Chicago Cubs fans!
Today the Chicago Cubs, well actually mostly the Cub’s farm system, will play the last 2022 spring training game and will go in to the new season with a winning spring training record. Of course, nobody wins a World Series in spring training, even if my attendance at the 2016 spring training might have propelled the Cubs to win it all that year.
It looks like the Cubs have improved, and I expect they will be competitive enough to make them interesting to watch. One concerning sign from the spring is they allowed more runs than scored, and run scoring (offense) is the big question mark.
Opening day is like starting to read a new book, you don’t know how it will end and you hope that it will be fulfilling.
Every year young men have their dreams of becoming Major League Baseball players come true, but fans rarely see the moment when the dream is realized. Yesterday was an exception as we saw Ethan Roberts being told we was heading to Chicago during the Cub’s spring training game against the White Sox. We need to remember that despite all the money and fame there are dreams lived out.
Today has been windy, with sustained windows at 20 mph and gusts up to 45 mph. Fortunately, the temperature has been from the mid 40s to the low 50s, so not terribly cold, and yet I have been feeling cold all day. I think that my subconsious hearing the howling wind is making me feel cold, even if it isn’t particularly cold. Is that a thing?
Nice to see the NFL has somewhat changed their mind on overtime so that both teams will get one possession in playoffs games, but why not during the regular season? I disagree with all sports that have different rules between the regular season and playoffs. Hockey does the same thing, which I also disagree with.
I am a Chicago Cubs fan who lives in southeast Michigan. When I first moved here in 1989 I couldn’t watch the Cubs unless they were on national TV, so I did take an interest in watching the local Detroit Tigers broadcast. When the MLB.tv and MLB At Bat app became available I could again watch every Cubs game and therefore I don’t watch as much of the Detroit Tigers. I also tend to not watch the national broadcast games.
All of the above is background to me wondering just how successful the streaming of “national broadcast” games will be on Apple TV. Fourty years ago there were more national broadcast of baseball games at a time when there were no regional nor local broadcasts and no Internet streaming. Baseball does not have the same national draw as the NFL and the Cubs play every Friday. I doubt this will happen, but I’ll be really mad if they don’t stream the games in MLB.tv on Fridays.
So, for myself, the only time I will watch the Friday night games on Apple TV is when the Cubs play, and I suspect most other people will do the same. I just don’t see this working out well for Apple, particularly when Apple decides to block access to only Apple TV subscribers. Right now people do not subscribe to Apple TV to watch baseball. MLB will probably be ok because I am sure they are getting paid by Apple regardless of the number of viewers.
In the meantime I read that the NFL might start their own streaming service, so I wonder whether I will be able to see more Green Bay Packer games?
I wonder whether the “Friday Night Baseball” on Apple TV will be blacked out for local markets like MLB.tv is?
Woke up to a frosty 17 degrees this morning. One more day of below normal temperature is forecasted for tomorrow, then we should be back to normal.
“The Christian faith is different from what the world teaches. The Christian faith is not “seeing is believing,” but rather, “believing is seeing.” We must open our eyes and hearts and see Jesus’s presence in our lives. We need to see him in the places that we dare not to look and dare not to think about.”
— Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence by Diana Butler Bass
What is even more shocking than corporate suppression of wages is how the corporate and management classes have convinced many workers that the suppression is in their best interest. Assimilation is a very effective tool of the powerful.
Noooo, not on March 26!
It’s somewhat shocking to me that after more than 200 years we seem to still not have decided in the United States whether we are one country or whether we are something more like the European Union. Stuff like this keeps popping up and yet people think a concept like critical race theory isn’t a thing.
I did not know that one of my favorite deserts, tiramisu, did not exist before I was born. Tiramisu means “pick-me-up.”
Last year on this date our health risk due to COVID decreased as we got our first vaccine shot.
I know that two selfies in a row is too much, but how else are you going to see this shirt? And if nobody sees it, what is the point?
Today is the first day of this year that I was able to be outside in just a sweatshirt.
