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Spring Vacation Day Six – Athletics at Rangers
Today was the only ‘road trip’ of our games this week. We ate breakfast and hopped in the car for the hour drive up to Surprise, Arizona. Surprise Stadium is in the middle of the Surprise Recreation Campus, which includes practice fields, picnic grounds, a library, tennis courts, community pool and a water park. Both…
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Spring Vacation Day Five – Out of Africa and Sedona
Today we went on a ninty minute drive up I17 to the town of Campe Verde and the wild animal park nearby called Out of Africa. We left about an hour late and the place was pretty packed. While on the the ‘safari’ ride, the driver said that they normally get 500 people but today…
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Spring Vacation Day Four – Baseball and Hockey
Today was a long day. We got to Phoenix Muni early, almost too early. Parking was open, but the stadium wasn’t, so we went inside the shop to browse around. I bought myself another straw hat, since you can never have too many of them. When we finally got inside, we headed over near the…
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Spring Vacation Day Three – Dodgers at Athletics
Today was the first baseball game of the trip, with the A’s hosting the Dodgers split squad. After allowing the Dodgers to put up four runs in the second, they came back and scored nine in the third. They wanted to coast home, but the Dodgers put up four runs in the ninth to bring…
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Spring Vacation Day Two – Eastbound to Phoenix
We are tired. Last night we all had some kind of problems sleeping. Hunter decided that he couldn’t keep so much milk in his stomach, and burped up a lot of it all over Heather and the bed. He had to get new clothes on and calmed down enough to go back to sleep. I…
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Spring Vacation Day One – Down California
We left this morning for our trip to Arizona. The main attractions are four spring training baseball games featuring the Oakland Athletics, visiting San Jose Sharks at Phoenix Coyotes and a couple zoos. We planned on leaving at about nine am this morning, but we had a missing kitty to find. We weren’t sure if…
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Sharks Expected W/L using Poisson Numbers
[originally posted on Fear the Fin] I follow a great NFL stats blog called Advanced NFL Stats, that uses live win-probability modeling to determine which of the two teams is most likely to win. This football off-season the author of that blog has started looking at other sports, hockey being one of them. The post…
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Field Commander – Eve’s Study solution
I’ve been playing Field Commander on the PSP for many months now. It’s a great game and for the most part, once you get the hang of the units, each map can be completed in one or two tries in usually less than an hour. I went through a good deal of the game playing…
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Royal Rumble 2009 Predictions
The Royal Rumble is one of my favorite matches of the year. Thirty guys with one goal, win the shot at a championship title. One of the best parts is watching the interactions of the low and mid-card wrestlers against the main eventers. Trying to predict the Royal Rumble winner often involves trying to predict…
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How to get Kane back in his mask
Quick Trivia, other than the Undertaker the night Kane made his debut, who were Kane’s first victims? Kane has been maskless for a few years now, and while it was interesting at first, it’s really diluted the character. Kane usually seems to be over pretty well with the fans, and is one good push away…