As the Billings Mustangs look to improve on their first half last-place finish (indeed one of the worst first-half performances that I’ve seen in quite awhile in any league), I’m reminded that the purpose of the minors has little to do with winning championships. Although the experience of winning a championship is fulfilling and valuable, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘montana’
Ten Ways The Minors Eclipse The Majors
Posted in The Daily Life, The Sporting Life, tagged baseball, better, billings mustangs, dehler park, kill your television, Minor League Baseball, MLB, montana, pastime on August 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Clarity and Interrelations Explained
Posted in The Daily Life, tagged asinine, facebook, false, fresh air, kill your television, Knowledge, montana, Must-Read, myspace, outside, real, summer, true, twitter on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This article is still (two years later) one of the more compelling and thought-provoking pieces of gear I have read on the web. Now, please go outside and enjoy the air, if only for a moment. Even if you are at work. Even if the shit is hitting the fan. Do it no matter what.
Finally, It Starts
Posted in The Sporting Life, tagged baseball, billings, billings mustangs, cincinnati reds, cobb field, dehler park, minor leagues, montana, pastime, summer on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tonight’s Billings Mustangs opener at Dehler Park brings summer with it; I attended mainly because things here are about to become preposterously hot. Those who still long for the old Cobb Field appear to feel right at home in the new digs, and with very good reason. Dehler is quite easily the most personable, accessible [...]
The Infragile Delicacy
Posted in The Daily Life, tagged altitude, Beartooth Highway, blastula, check engine, college, daughter, donkey vaginas, Driving, father, GM, husband, hypercolor, iPod, Knowledge, montana, shitty inventors, spring, wife on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In driving the sometimes-16-foot-wide Beartooth Scenic Byway this afternoon, I realized that for a few moments, everything that symbolized the day was lurking in my car. My daughter maintained her ever-hungry din (although I believe I have fostered an earnest use of the word, “Please,”). My wife endeavored quiet in the face of this din. [...]
The (Iron) Rat Race
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anger, Ants Marching, dipshit, Driving, dumbass, Idiocy, idiot, montana, moron, rant, redneck, struggle, threatening of a child on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Local Employees: It’s not my fault (nor is it my two-year-old daughter’s) that you drank too much, forgot to set your alarm, wet your bed, forgot how to drive, “needed” to get that espresso, have a boss that just won’t understand, write tedious run-on sentences, can’t read, are currently drinking, or think the stars [...]
A Fond Hello to Baseball Season
Posted in The Sporting Life, tagged baseball, billings mustangs, chicago cubs, cobb field, dehler park, impatience, minor leagues, montana, pastime, spring, winter, wrigley field on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who live outside the time-machine of Montana, where spring has not nearly yet arrived, baseball and its wonderful minions–green grass, warmer temperatures, cherry blossoms and perhaps planting time in your garden–is finally here. To everyone who has ever uttered a sentence about how boring baseball is, I implore you to take [...]
