Due to the price of fuel, decrease in travel, overbooked flights, security measures, and just good old fashioned capitalism, carry-on luggage is becoming rarer and check-in luggage costs money. With strict size limitations, you are being forced to check in…
DL, Yankees
Mark Teixeira on DL 8-10 Weeks; Is The 2013 Yankees Season Over?
The bad news: Mark Teixeira will miss 8-10 weeks with a strained tendon in his right wrist. The good news: At least he won’t have a bad April. Ba-dum-CHING! I knew Mark Teixeira would not survive the World Baseball Classic…
furniture
TV Stands
As flat screen televisions are getting wider and wider, they become more difficult to hang on your wall. You probably didn’t realize this because you embraced the new technology very quickly as the older bulky TV units are obsolete. It…
Yankees
Spring Training: 2013 Yankees vs 1991 Yankees, 2009, 1996
One of the things I like about Out of the Park Baseball simulator is that players get injured during Spring Training and users will complain about it on the message board forums saying that it’s not fair after all the…
music
The Origin of Iron Maiden Dave Murray’s 1957 Fender Stratocaster
Dave Murray’s famous electric guitar (see the type at dave murray strat guitar center) was used for the first eight Iron Maiden albums. It used to belong to Paul Kossoff of the group Free. Murray bought it in 1976 after…
baseball, books, Reviews
Mike Piazza Book Review
Mike Piazza’s autobiography “Long Shot” is unusual for baseball autobiographies in that Piazza and his author Lonnie Wheeler truly cover EVERYTHING in a player’s career- it’s a whopping 350+ pages that covers his family, childhood, road to the big leagues,…