An Easy Choice

Dear Joel, There's a blog I read sometimes called Wait, But Why? I subscribed the first time I read the site's subtitle: "new post every sometimes." It made me laugh. The guy who writes it covers a wide variety of topics, and he's written a couple of posts on The American Presidents. I think right now he's completed two posts and they cover...

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If Everyone Jumped Off a Bridge...

Dear Jake, I'm here.  I'm sorry.  Life is sort of crazy right now. Did you see Brewers reliever Will Smith get thrown out of a game this last week?  He was using pine tar to illegally weight the ball when he would throw.  It was in the news, not because of what he did, but because of his reaction when it happened.  He didn't...

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Road Trippin'

Dear Joel, You may know that I drove to California the other day. Well, I suppose I should say I drove there the other days. Mom and I left Ames early Sunday morning and made it to Albuquerque, New Mexico by that night. The next day we made it all the way to a hotel right outside LAX. It was lots of fun. We took a route I hadn't traveled before,...

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Cheatergate

Dear Joel Before I say anything else, I want to be clear about one thing: I don't care that much about Deflategate. I really don't. I had a dentist appointment on Tuesday and I sat in a chair for 30 minutes while the hygienist scraped and poked my teeth. The TV was tuned to ESPN and Mike & Mike in the Morning was on (but neither Mike nor Mike...

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Make it Hurt

Dear Jake, I just now realized that I didn't post yesterday.  We should probably discuss a punishment.  We should take into consideration that I am posting today.  I broke the rules.  What should I be penalized. We won't be the only one discussing that.  Actually, every sports columnist gets to feast off the thing that has...

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Get up, baby!

Yes. I'll read your book. Lately I've been thinking about becoming a radio broadcaster for baseball games. There was a 35% discount available for MLB.TV's audio package (with which you can listen to every MLB game all year long with no blackouts), so I snagged it for $13 a couple of weeks ago. It's been great being able to follow the Cardinals whether...

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I Need a Pen Name

Dear Jake, I have always wanted to write a book.  I want to write a novel.  I imagine it would be a children's book along the lines of "The Door in the Dragon's Throat" or even "The Chronicles of Narnia".  It's been a dream of mine for a long time.  I think it is the dream of a lot of people to write a book. I love "The Voyage...

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