AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST TORONTO BLUE JAYS (91 – 71 in 2021) Under the new playoff format, in which MLB has added a third wild card team in each league, the Blue Jays 91 wins last season would have gotten them into the playoffs. But last year there were only two wild card teams, the …
CHICAGO WHITE SOX (93 – 69 in 2021) Last season the White Sox brought in Tony La Russa to manage the team. He promptly guided them to 93 victories in spite of an unprecedented number of injuries. Of course, that was the whole point of bringing La Russa back to Chicago. The man started …
Well, we are about three weeks into a new baseball season. For a while there, it looked like we weren’t going to have much of a season at all. We ended up with an abbreviated spring training and a regular season starting a week late, although they will be playing a full 162 game schedule. …
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What is heart health all about? Well, it’s a journey, the first steps in a journey of thousands. I’ve gone through some rather drastic lifestyle changes in recent weeks due to health issues. What I hope to do here is share some of my experiences and possible solutions. Perhaps one of you is going through …
Neither rain nor sleet nor a pending heart procedure will keep me from the WonderCon. A worldwide pandemic though… Ever hear of the Comic-Con? Well, neither had I. At least not in 2003. In July of that year, I found myself in San Diego on business, and I decided to stop in the Gaslamp district …
Yes, I know, I missed my blog last week. I’m very sorry to the two or three of you who have come to rely on my blogs weekly. But hey, I have a doctor’s note. I have long suspected that the universe will, at some point, present each of us with his or her own …
They say there are only two things in life that are certain, death and taxes. The problem is you only die once, but you pay taxes every year. Then you die and they tax that. There are a lot of reasons people get into real estate investing. Perhaps they’ve had friends that did well flipping …
A nice problem to have, and one that is not uncommon in Bakersfield, is the fact that there are just so many good places to choose from if you want to enjoy a good meal out. When it comes to dining out Bakersfield offers plenty of top-notch destinations and is probably one of the city’s …
There is an old saying… find something that you truly love to do, and you’ll never work a day in your life. Well, that looks nice on paper, but I don’t think it’s 100% accurate. No matter what you do for a living, love it or hate it, there are going to be good days …
I have always been curious about how people end up doing whatever it is they do for a living. When they were in college, was this what they had envisioned they would be doing with their lives? High school? Further back? Do they have a job that is completely unrelated to why they went to …