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I saw these somewhere and wanted to post them rather than wait for one of my award winning GIF posts.  See? Always thinking about you.

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I went up to Beer Bellies on Wednesday and Kate gave me her heart.

Then I went home and ate it.

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The Wombie's washing machine is more complicated than setting up this blog.

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Nice couple inches of snow on Saturday.  It was the North's goodbye gift to me.  It was short but beautiful.  It also gave me a chance to head out the next morning and take some last shots.

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 Spring training time isn't my favorite:  it should be shortened by two weeks and all those silly fluff pieces on the players are obnoxious.  Yeah, everyone is eyeing a Cy Young.  Blah, blah.

Actual headline in the New York Post:


Mets manager has strong feelings on ‘dry humping’

February 15, 2018 | 9:48am


Has the phrase undergone a different meaning since I was a kid?   Might be some interesting stories coming out of the Met's clubhouse this year. 

Speaking of baseball, when I young there were only three stats worth focusing on:  average, home runs and runs batted in (Avg., HR, RBI's.) With the advent of sabremetrics we now have such things as OBP (on base percentage), BB(walk rate), wOBA (weighted on base average), wRC+ (weighted runs created plus), BABIP (batting average on balls in play), OPS+ (on base percentage plus slugging).  And that's just the hitters.  Pitchers have their own new stats, too.  As for me,  give me the old original trio of stats, that's all I need to know. 

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I am toying around with going over to Wordpress as the blogging home to Existing in BFE.  Stay tuned.

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We get proof about Russian interference from Mueller's continuing indictments and instead of taking steps to prevent further attacks our President only wants to use the info to vindicate himself.  If Trump's presidency would have been a fiction novel everyone would have said it was too outlandish.  Oops, I broke my New Years "resolves" about politics and dang if I can find that delete button. 

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Finally, I so admire the kids from Stoneman Douglas for their efforts to spur legislators to gun control efforts, but they'll get crushed.  Look for maybe watered down Fix NIKS background check legislation to pass, but they'll never get the AR-15 assault rifle banned.  Welcome to adult America, guys.




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