Today is the first day of this year that I was able to be outside in just a sweatshirt.
Somebody is going to be mad at Tom Brady. One should know by now that final is not always final in sports and entertainment.
It should be a big week for baseball given that there are so many big name free agents yet to sign. I am hoping the Cubs will sign one of them because we still need more bats.
Looking back at my blog posts from two years ago is revealing. I remember one the first reactions to COVID in the U.S. was to buy up all the toilet paper. I had a slightly different reaction.
And now the fun really begins, watching the free agent tracker to see who is going to be playing for the Cubs this year.
Probably the most impactful result of the new agreement between the MLB players and owners is the universal designated hitter. I know there will be many arguments about whether or not it should exist, and I am ambivalent. However, I think that such a rule should be the same for both leagues or neither leagues. Given the amount of interleague play, having the DH in only one made no sense to me.
Woke up this morning to see a fresh layer of snow on the ground, this the day after we got news spring is finally coming due to the MLB lockout ending. Oh mother nature, never stop being you!
Two years ago this week COVID was first officially seen in MIchigan. Little did we know then what that would mean.
Will the current gas price increases inspire more people to buy electric cars or just complain?
It’s a nice pre-spring day in southeast Michigan
It sure feels like we humans are intent on destroyng ourselves and the world.
Last year on this date the Chicago Cubs won their first spring training game of the 2021 season. Today I have no idea when the Cubs will play their first game in 2022, with the lockout end not in sight.
Love your neighbor AS yourself….
“Now if I hear the sound of the genuine in me, and if you hear the sound of the genuine in you, it is possible for me to go down in me and come up in you. So that when I look at myself through your eyes having made that pilgrimage, I see in me what you see in me and the wall that separates and divides will disappear and we will become one because the sound of the genuine makes the same music." – Howard Thurman
— Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It by Brian D. McLaren
Would Putin do the same?
On War
War should not be watched or consumed as entertainment. One ought to consider how it is that one or a few people can make the decision to start a war with seemingly little to no regard for loss of human life and the suffering it causes. I think at the heart of it is the sin of supremacy that convinces that the other’s life is not valuable nor legitimate.
Even in democracies, as we know all too well in the United States, one man or woman has the power to wage war. We have decided that expediency is so important we must empower one human to such power, a power that frankly we should never allow to just one human.
The power to wage war and it’s consequences is why character matters so much when deciding which human should be elected President of the United States. Anyone who treats the power to wage war as a political tool should never be allowed to hold the office.
I think Federated Wiki could be used to for Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups because federation is a form of interoperability.
Turns out that the U.S. government’s intelligence about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was correct. Doesn’t that make you think that the intel about Russia interference in the 2016 Presidential election was correct?
We in the U.S. should learn by now having endured two years of a pandemic that started on the other side of the world that we are all connected and thus a war in Europe is going to affect us here. My point is to not to say we should rush in to that war but that we cannot bury our heads in the sand.
It is really nice and warm (nearly 50 degrees) outside, and while I was walking this afternoon it occurred to me that I should be excited about the upcoming baseball season, with pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training. Alas, because the MLB has locked out the players, causing a shutdown and therefore we don’t know when the season will start.
The sun is shining again today, but the wind is howling. Accuweather app says it is 13 degrees that feels like 2.