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RIP Harry Kalas

Harry Kalas passed away today, one of the all time great voices.

Death from a thousand pecks

Say what you will, but those Cardinals are scrappy this year.

I’m not sure what to say about the choice of mask by the gentleman pictured above. I suspect many current Cardinal fans are new to the bandwagon and are adapting “on the fly” to this new winning “tradition.”

The guy above looks like he’s adapting from a role in Pulp Fiction.

Rowing the Pacific

Roz Savage is rowing across the Pacific, and she’s blogging it here.

Bad news today. I cannot get the watermaker to work.

It ran well on Friday, then sputtered to a halt after a minute or so on both Saturday and Sunday, and today again gave up the attempt after a short and feeble effort.

I spent a couple of hours alternating phone calls to Darren at Spectra Watermakers, and head down in the watermaker hatch. I was trying to find signs of corrosion resulting from its dunking a couple of weeks ago, when the hatch flooded, but all the wiring looked fine as far as I could see.

There is one more option still to try – the corrosion may be in the switch panel in the cabin, which also got rather damp during the rough weather – and I will investigate that tomorrow.

But for now it’s looking as if water is going to be in short supply for the rest of my voyage.

Also, check out her podcast here, her Twitter feed here, and her Youtube page here.

Jinx averted?

Frank Gramarossa, project executive for the new Yankee stadium, removes a Boston Red Sox jersey with the name of player David Ortiz from the ground at the new Yankee stadium.

The Yankees have ended a construction worker’s attempt to jinx their new stadium with a buried Red Sox jersey.

The jersey was buried under 2 feet of concrete in a service corridor of the stadium.

This is great… As a Mets fan I can only say: “Looks like they missed a bit…”

Doing it the hard way.

I was thinking some more about the Giants’ playoff run, and I don’t think it could be anymore remarkable. Lets review:

• They were on the road for all their playoff games.
• They played and beat the #1 and #2 seeds.
• They beat the legendary Brett Favre in HIS house.
• They won a game in sub-arctic temperatures.
• They got revenge on 3 teams that beat them in the regular season.
• They beat an 18-0 team in the Superbowl.

I mean if you were a Giants fan, you have to be thrilled beyond belief. It doesn’t get any better than that.

Superbowl Weekend

Wow, what a great game! Congratulations to the NY Giants. Ordinarily I can’t stand the team, but in this instance I found myself rooting hard for their success. The evil, cheating Patriots needed to be knocked off in humiliating fashion, and the Giants were the right time at the right time.

The game was 7-3 for a long time, spurring the son of one of our guests to remark “This game is boring.” It’s true that defensive struggles aren’t for everyone, but man did this game open up in the second half. Exciting play after exciting play, mauling sacks of Tom Brady, and that miracle toss by Manning to David Tyree (that he caught off his helmet.) We were screaming.

The rest of the weekend was fantastic as well. We had some college friends down and there were 10 of us in all. Lauren loved having new friends to play with. Many Belgian ales were consumed, movies watched, and Mentos rockets launched.

Pictures from the weekend can be found here. The only downside is that the weekend had to end.