Felix Hernandez = Mariner
… for five more years! 🙂 Here are Felix and Seattle GM Jack Zduriencik (otherwise known as GMZ or “The GM with the Golden Touch”) at a press conference yesterday: (Photo: Geoff Baker/Seattle Times) Roll on, April.
Goodbye, Adrian Beltre
I’m glad we have Chone Figgins; I think he’ll be an awesome 3B. But I sure as heck will miss seeing this guy and these kinds of plays on a regular basis: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8IKDeH9SEg&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Red Sox fans, prepare to be astounded.
Checking off this weekend
Play softball: check. My first proper exercise in five weeks! And I went 6-8 in our pickup games and got a little sunburned to boot. Oh, how I’ve missed the glorious ache of well-used muscles. Get homework done: check. Wrote a journal entry and a book review, and read about 250 pages on Bonhoeffer, including …
Mariners lose
Yeah, I’m not gonna blog about them for a little while …
Tax Day
I love Jon Stewart. “Taxed Enough Already.” Protesting high taxes and government’s wasteful spending. Okay, part two first: as Jon Stewart notes, protesting wasteful spending by buying lots and lots and lots of tea bags—and I may be going out on a limb here, but I doubt they’re going to use those afterwards—doesn’t spell anything …