Jamaican Sprinting Dominance Isn’t Genetic
Jamaican Sprinting Dominance Isn’t Genetic:
Jamaica’s success isn’t merely genetic; it’s cultural, institutional and individual. Pointing to genes is intellectually and scientifically sloppy.
Vidro designated for assignment
Our long hitting nightmare is over!:
Vidro designated for assignment: “
The Jose Vidro era ended today when the Mariners designated him for assingment. I just drove by him in the Safeco Field parking lot. I was headed in, he was leaving. The Mariners have 10 days to release, trade or demote Vidro to the minors — a move he could refuse. Anyhow, he’s gone.
Wladimir Balentien is back up.
(Via Mariners Blog.)
Water on mars!
NASA - NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended:
“We have water,” said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. “We’ve seen evidence for this water ice before in observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in disappearing chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted.”
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King Felix makes “The Leap”?
Mariners blog Lookout Landing thinks that King Felix might have made “The Leap” from a very good starter to a great one. The difference? An excellent changeup against left-handed hitters:
For much of 2006 and 2007, Felix was dogged by an inability to consistently retire lefties, a function of (not exclusively, but primarily) an inconsistent change. Today he really had it working. He threw it 22 times – 17 times for strikes – and of the 15 swings, seven missed and only one put it in play. Felix was doing a great job of either burying the change low or putting it off the plate away from the batter, with terrific results. If this keeps up, then that’s it, he’s made the leap. End of story. He’s already murder on righties. If he’s truly discovered the secret to throwing an effective change, then that gives him four pitches he can throw in any count to any hitter, and that’s…that’s game over is what that is.
House Education (2/1 1:30 PM)
House Education (2/1 1:30 PM): “Public: HB 3103, HB 2772, HB 2461, HB 2722, HB 2832, HB 2709, HB 2988, HB 3129; Work Session: Report on Statewide End-of-Course Assessments, Education First Consulting.”
(Via TVW, Legislative Podcasts.)
Super Bowl logos are ugly-funny
For those of you who doubt that the NFL inspires the most consistently tacky designs of all the major sports, consider the 42 Super Bowl logos. I’d like to point out that each one is more garish than the last, but I can’t because that’s not true. They are consistently hideous over the decades. 1995 is my “favorite”.
(Via King Kaufman.)
Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Cmte. (1/28 5:30 PM)
Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Cmte. (1/28 5:30 PM)
(Via TVW, Legislative Podcasts.)
Hong Kong Phooey lunch pale
Sports writer Joe Posnanski has started Stuff That’s Gone, “a work-in-progress glossary of some outdated stuff that once mattered to people of [his] generation.” (He’s 41 years old.)
I carried a Hong Kong Phooey lunch pale to grade school for two years. I don’t recall if that was the one that my mother ran over in the driveway after the dog escaped the house. Mom, please clarify in the comments.
The Baseball Analysts: Miscellaneous BBWAA Hall of Fame Ballots in Quotes
The Baseball Analysts: Miscellaneous BBWAA Hall of Fame Ballots in Quotes.
Read the quotes from baseball writers with a Hall of Fame vote and decide how relevent the Hall of Fame is to you. Do you trust these guys to take their vote seriously? Isn’t it time that the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame start opening voting to some folks who give a hoot?