Thursday 4/9/26 Peppermint Patty would be the member of the Peanuts gang most likely to follow the Grateful Dead on tour. She'd do it for the community more so than the music, which she'd like but not think too much about. Take it as it is, in the moment. Linus would be the member of the Peanuts gang most likely to think hard about "Ripple." One of the many great ideas in Peanuts is the one in which you go to someone's yard and there's a stand where you sit and you tell your
Wednesday 4/8/26 Often I'll read baseball history discussions between people from many years ago. It can be interesting to see how the change in how certain players are viewed. People presently tend to get more wrong, because they use en vogue analytics as an end all be all, especially because they don't know the game that well and they're adverse to thinking. Whereas, the en vogue analytic provides what's tantamount to a number on the Instagram dashboard, and that's what alm
Wednesday 4/8/26 The Red Sox won last night to improve--that verb feels ironic here--to 3-8, mostly because Garrett Crochet had the start. They continued to make mental errors, though, and Alex Cora was once again asleep at the managerial wheel. Trevor Story, of all people, provided the big hit. Prior to last night's game, he had an OPS+ of 0, which I can't recall having seen before. I'm waiting for his first walk of the year and wondering how much longer he can go without ma
Wednesday 4/8/26 Most people are horrible people. It's almost impossible--because it takes too much character, and most humans possess little to no character--to have money, power, fame, and not be worse than someone would be without those things. I'm unchangeable in these regards, but as these pages make plain, I'm not like anyone else. I answer to different things. And I also want different things. People will try to get away with whatever they're allowed to get away with.
