He's a Mad Bum

Dear Joel, There's a pitcher in the major leagues named Max Scherzer. He was a star for the Detroit Tigers from 2010-2014, and he even won the American League Cy Young Award in 2013. In January, Scherzer signed a contract with the Washington Nationals. Last weekend, Scherzer made comments to a reporter about how the National League needs to implement...

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Hey Hey From Tampa Bay

Dear Jake, I had posted an article that I believed to be true but my wife said was mean and made me look like an (expletive) and the internet doesn't need truth on it.  So I'm writing a poem instead. Beauty is the unicorn Perfection is he Power ripples from his shoulders The king of the forest Lions don't live in the forest Mystic are his farts Magic...

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Baseball has a lot of good movies

Dear Joel, What a great question. My favorite sports movie of all time? I'm probably going to have to make a list, because I can't settle on one. I'll group them by their sport. That way I don't even have to pick the ones I like more. After making this list I realized that of the ten movies I have here, six of them are based on true events. Also...

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If Jimmy Dugan Were an Announcer

Dear Jake,      That's easy.  I want to be the stadium announcer.  I don't want the pressure of play by play or color commentary, I just want to announce batters, special events, etc...  Since you've forced me to switch my dedication from the Giants to the Cardinals my family better get it's own suite and wait staff. ...

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What is it About Catchers?

Dear Joel, My guess is that many of the people you hear on ESPN complaining about the need to speed up the game of baseball are the same people who fully support the increased use of instant replay. I don't know how I feel about the necessity of "speeding up" baseball. I would probably support some measures that are aimed at making it...

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It's Baseball Season! Yay!

Dear Jake,      I loved the poem "What Teachers Make" and I was going to rant about the sorry state of our public school system.  Working with a bunch of high school students I can honestly say that most of them are incredibly smart and get good grades, but they have no idea how to think.  We stopped teaching kids how...

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C'mon, Patrick!

Dear Joel, Thanks for posting those YouTube channels! I checked out every single one you linked to (I didn't get to all the ones you listed at the bottom). Very interesting stuff. If I had to choose a couple, I would say Smarter Every Day and CGP Grey were my favorites from your list. I hope I don't disappoint with the videos below. You said you're...

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Junky

Dear Jake, I love YouTube.  I'm sort of a junkie.  I am not sure how most people use YouTube, but I get this feeling that most of the people around me wait for a video to be shared with them, waltz across their social media feed, or come up in a conversation to be looked up.  I admit that many an enjoyed video is consumed by me through...

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Nutmeg

Dear Joel, I didn't know you were a big famous rock star. That's pretty cool! I would actually love to talk about that a lot. But this post is going to be short, and for that, I apologize. I'm in Hartford, Connecticut right now, on-site with a customer for work. And so you should imagine me in my best Josh Lyman voice saying, "Go Whalers... (there's...

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