If you're a jerk, here's an ecard you can send to your Yankee fan friends:



(Hopefully this same ecard won't be needed for Sox fans...)

Recently there have been a couple nice articles about Red Sox: Terry Francona in Yahoo Sports and Jonathan Papelbon in Sports Illustrated.

See you at 6:30!

Uni Watch is a blog all about sports uniforms, and often has some interesting articles. (It's where I learned about baseball's "futuristic" uniforms...glad I missed those games.) Anyway, there's a pretty good one about hidden elements in sports logos (inspired by a discussion of the FedEx logo's negative space arrow). In it they mention the Hartford Whalers "HW" (a fantastic logo, IMO) and also schooled me about the "MB" in the old Milwaukee Brewers glove logo.

Speaking of logos, on a trip last week I noticed at the airport that Northwest Airlines has changed their logo, which I think is a shame. The old one combined the N and W into a simple, single element: what looks like an italicized N becomes a W with the arrow in the top left -- which, of course, is pointing northwest. The new logo just makes me think of this NWA...

The Sox (finally) win the AL East, I won't say anything to my Mets-following family and friends, and Jon in Philly watches a great comeback. Let the playoffs begin...

What a difference between Boston and Florida baseball: While Fenway sells out the park every night (375+ consecutive games), take a look at this photo from yesterday's Marlins-Nationals game. There were about 400 fans total, and only half of that stayed until the Marlins won the game in the 12th.

"In the spring we'd make meat helmets." -- Dr. Evil

I decided to start doing Sinko again: a weekly podcast that's basically a 5-song "mix tape" based on a theme or artist. Check it out if you're interested, and you can subscribe here.

Paul Graham has a good article about owning too much stuff. It's good for me to read something like this every so often to inspire me to clean out a lot of things I really don't need.

OK, I'm an idiot. Or not observant. Or something.

I'm a pretty avid baseball fan. I played many years of little league and, except for taking time off in the late 80s/early 90s to ride my bike instead, have followed the Red Sox pretty closely. Thiry-six years on this earth, a baseball fan for most of them.

But it wasn't until this past Friday that I finally realized something: I was finishing the final DVD of Ken Burns' Baseball when someone pointed out the obvious: home plate is actually shaped like a home! I'm so used to seeing it as shown in the photo here that I never noticed that by rotating it 180 degrees, it's the shape of a house.

I told a sports fan at work, and he hadn't noticed either (and he was a catcher when he played baseball). So I'm probably not alone, but still somewhat shocked.

While talking about Sesame Street...

Amelia: Why does Oscar always tell people "Get lost"?
Me: Because he's a grouch.
Amelia: Well, he should say "Get lost, please."