Baseball America just released their list of the Top 100 Prospects in baseball.  For the first time in memory, a Red sits atop the list: outfielder Jay Bruce.  The Reds also have four other players on the list, including another Top 10 member in pitcher Homer Bailey.  The list of Major League teams with the […]

Great visual from Indexed:

More truth: the properties of physics apply to this as well.  The higher you get (especially on the high side of performance), the stronger the social gravitational pull back toward mediocrity.  And I think many people have the mistaken idea that those who are performing at a high level are doing so […]

What a dark, sad day for the Hoosiers. They hired a cheater, and guess what? He cheated. And now there’s mutiny:
Six players, including star big man D.J. White and fellow starters Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis, blew off Dan Dakich’s first practice as interim coach. (Hint to White: They usually don’t give […]

My wireless router’s antenna broke, and I no longer got WiFi upstairs. So I fixed it.

When you fix your wireless router with duct tape, you might be a high-tech redneck.

We’ve allowed some credit card debt to accumulate (because I’m an idiot), and we started using Dave Ramsey’s cash envelope budgeting system and debt snowball system back in October in order to focus on killing that debt as quickly as possible. Then Joe Sangl got everyone FIRED UP at Pine Ridge this weekend with […]

Phillies pitcher Brett Myers pulled a classic baseball prank this week:

I’ve been looking at used cars and just purchased a 30 day subscription at Carfax.  I bought a car today, and my subscription has about 29 days left.  If you need to check out a car sometime before March 16, email me the VIN (hit the contact link above) and I’ll run the check then […]