Fame

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron's Guitar Chronicles.

The girl behind the monitor’s name was Bailey. She unlocked a little office upstairs in the back so Carynne could make a few phone calls, but C. instead sat and motioned for me to close the door behind me and join her. “Mister Zee’s off the edge,” she said as she sat down behind an empty desk.

I sat on the desk. “God, maybe he was always like this but I didn’t notice because I was too worried about other things. Speaking of which,” I looked at the billboard with old concert flyers tacked to it instead of at her, “how are things with you and him?”

“Thankfully null. He’s latched onto that reporter-groupie.”

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Cold. But they won.

Mirrored from Why I Like Baseball.

So I went to Opening Day at Yankee Stadium this year, on March 31st. While I understand and appreciate that MLB wanted to start the year four or five days earlier, so that there would be no chance of having a World Series game on November 4th (grrrrrr…. the reason I wasn’t there to enjoy the Yankees’ victory in 2009 was because I was on an annual business trip that NORMALLY would not come close to conflicting), in April it’s always a statistics game with the weather man. Each day closer to May the chance of having a warm day goes up.

I’m not just saying that. I’m a SABR member after all, and part of what we do is analyze history based on the statistical record. Well, looking at that record, the chance for warm on March 31st in New York City was pretty slim.

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