Day 1 (1-0)

Ok, so really it's the Tiger's second game, but do we really need to count their 17-4 routing of Florida Southern?

The Detroit Tigers opened Spring Training 2008 today with a solid 4-2 defeat of the mighty New York Metropolitans in front of 6,325 devoted fans. It was a great day for baseball with a 16 mph breeze coming out of right on an overcast 60 degree day in sunny Florida.

The game began in typical Jeremy Bonderman fasion with a run scored in the first off a sac fly and another in the second when Machado tripled in Abreu (Michael not Bobby).

The Tigers stood their ground and in the 7th inning sent Willie Collazo home with a 36 ERA. The day would end as such. The Mets 2 Runs-6 Hits-No Errors, the Tigers 4 Runs-7 Hits-and 1 Error.

Thursday afternoon they are scheduled to play the Blue Jays from Toronto, with Nate "the great" Robertson getting the call.

Tigers Grapefruit League 1-0



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Not much to say...

So I am sitting here watching the lunar eclipse and "The Office".

Nothing is really going on, the new job has been going well. It has been a challenge starting the sales cycle over with zero clients and a new product, but WTF, that's the way it goes with a major career change.

I finally got one side of the Rubik's Cube done. It's the red side. But I still have 5 more to go.

OH HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN!!!!
6 Days, 14 Hours, 23 Minutes, and 45 seconds...44 seconds...43 seconds...42 seconds...and so on.
Until the start of the Detroit Tigers first spring training game! Holy shit baseball's back and it's the Tiger's year.

And I already have tickets to the Tigers/Sox on the April 12th at 35th and Wentworth (US Cellular Field) in Chicago. Can't wait.

You too can be a part of history by following this link:
http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/ticketing/index.jsp?c_id=det

Ok, I'm done.

2122 North Clark Street

79 years ago today.

At SMC Cartage Co (Phone Diversy 1471).

The end of the Bugs Moran vs. Al Capone era. Two years later the Federal Government convicted Capone for tax evasion on his earnings from bootlegging, prostitution, and illegal gambling. He spent time at Alcatraz in Cell 85, and was released due to the progression of his syphilis which eventually led to dementia. It's said that in his final days at his estate in Florida he spoke to visions of his enemies. After his death he was buried at Mt. Carmel Cemetary, surronded by many of his departed rivals of the Northside gang.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Sorry...

Ok, so I have not written in a while. But I'm back. First, I'd like to give you all a quick recap.



New Years was fun...

Nothing really happened between the 2nd and the 20st. On the 21nd I saw a really cool show about what the world would be like if people went extinct. And on the 22nd I lost my job. The company I was working for decided to close their offices in 7 markets, including Chicago. So I got a new one, it's better. So before I started my wife and I went to the Detroit Auto Show.

So that brings us to Super Tuesday. Can I just say...if you are voting for a candidate because they are good looking, articulate, well dressed, likeable, you can relate to them, or they stand for change, then just don't vote. And when everything still sucks, keep your mouth shut, because if you can't cast an educated vote than you can't complain about who is leading the country.

Educate yourself to the issues and the politician's stances. Then vote.

As for me, I am not voting in the primary elections. While I do believe that they are an important step in selecting our next president, the format kills me. You must select a party? And vote only for people on the ballat from that party? Come on. I want to vote for both. I want to say who I want to run on both sides. "I like these two people and want to hear more about their platforms". I don't believe it give me the opportunity to give my input. Now, if there was one candidate that I loved, that I knew I wanted to be the president I would vote in the primarys. Once the candidates have been selected I will then take a close look at them and decided who I will give my vote to.

Alright, I'm done with that. On to something more important...

I need you all to go to google maps and find the intersection of Groom Rd. and Old Mill St. in Rachel, Nevada. Then look at the satellite image.

Have a great week.

The Rubik's Cube...

Before I throw the damn thing, you can buy a Detroit Tigers Rubik's Cube at http://www.rubiks.com/

NOW, about beating the cube. I don't get it. One side is all I want, ONE SIDE! Is that too much to ask? I've had it for 3 days and I still have not finished one damn side. So now I sit here and stare at my cube, 8 of 9 orange squares all together. The lone square, just hangin' out 3 squares down, 2 squares over. Why God, why!!!

On to something else.

Um, uh, well...something else...hmmm...

Have you seen the Transformers movie? Wow, I mean how cool was that. For those of us that grew up pretending to be StarScream or Optimus Prime, how F'n cool was that flick. Especially that scene when Sam Witwicky takes the Cube and runs with it. D'oh!!

Something else...OH!

So I went out to a meeting today at the AON Center ...

(for those that do not know Chicago here is what Wikipedia says about it, "The Aon Center (200 East Randolph Street) is a modern skyscraper in Chicago designed by architect Edward Durell Stone and completed in 1973 as the Standard Oil Building.[1] With 83 floors and a height of 346 m (1,136 ft), it is the second tallest building in Chicago, surpassed in height only by the Sears Tower. It is the third tallest in the United States behind the Empire State Building and the 15th tallest in the world. The building is managed by Jones Lang LaSalle." And from my office to the AON is about 3/4 mile.)

As it just so happens it is also at the north end of Millennium Park. As I was trudging through the ice, slush and snow, I walked past a mime. Yes, a mime. Watching a mime is like a fat lady strip show...as bad as it is, you can't take your eyes off of it. So he's doing that one bit, where he is like trapped inside that thing, you know, and it keeps getting smaller and smaller. It's like he's stuck inside a cube and its...DAMN IT!!!!!!

Hmmm...what can I talk about that will get me off the Rubik's Cube?

27, I am 27 years old. My 23 year old neighbors make fun of me because I can't "Stay out 'till 430AM..." anymore. Seriously, do you just wake up one day and your body can no longer stay up late? I mean why didn't anyone tell me what day that would be, I would have gone on a week long bender just to make up for the fact that I would never be drinking when the sun rose ever again.

But really, is 27 that old? Here I go with the retro crap again.

Oh the events of MCMLXXX, all of which celebrated their 27th anniversary in 2007...

1. The Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.



2. Bon Scott dies of alcohol poisoning 5 months before the release of "Back in Black".



3. The Americans beat the Russians in the Olympic Hockey Semifinals.



4. Zimbabwe gains independence.



5. Richard Pryor burns himself while freebasing coke.



6. Ford releases a front wheel drive hatchback...cooool.



7. The Philadelphia Phillies win their first World Series EVER.



8. Kristin Shepard shot J.R. and Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon.



9. The world population hits 4,434,682,001 on September 1st, when I was born.



10. And 3X3X3 (or 27) equals the volume of the Rubik's Cube.

Mike! Pour me another. Goodnight every one.

Merry Christmas

a day late.

3,333,360

Or was is 6,131,940? Either way, both numbers mean the same thing...GET A JOB!!!!!


The best officially recorded score for Pac-Man was 3,333,360 (Billy Mitchell, 1999). Althought rumor has it that in 1982 Jeffery Yee received a letter from Ronald Reagan congratulating him for scoring 6,131,940. Apparantly, not that I will ever know, the 256th level has a glitch...you can't see the right half of screen. If you arrive at this level will all your lives, collect all the stuff and then procede to die you will receive a maximum 3,333,360. But if you can some how beat this level, the following screens are normal and you can continue. (this problem was roughly explained by Styx when they sang "Too much time on my hands..."


I Found out today that you can buy a brand new DeLorean for $40,000. When the company closed it's doors in 1983 then moved all the remaining parts to a warehouse which has stared assembling and rebuilding them. I wonder if they can install a flux-capacitor, "it's what makes time travel possible!".


Sorry about the 80's kick. It comes on from time to time. I'll watch some "Back to the Future" and "Die Hard" tonight and get over it.