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Best baseball clip ever: Pat Venditte, switch pitcher for the single A Staten Island Yankees, decides which hand to use against a switch hitter, who is simultaneously deciding which side of the plate to hit from.
That’s right, I said “switch pitcher.” More on Venditte from the Sporting News. [Editor’s note, 2023: THANK YOU SO MUCH, ARCHIVE.ORG!] This is seriously the best thing ever. I hope Venditte gets to the majors. Seeing him in action would be more than worth the price of admission.
There are so many more points of decision in this scenario than the standard one with a switch-hitter and a non-ambidextrous pitcher. Normally, it’s easy: The conventional wisdom is to bat lefty against a right-hander, and bat righty against a left-hander.
But if you don’t know which hand he’s going to pitch with before you approach the plate, when do you decide which batter’s box to go stand in? And if you’re the pitcher, when do you decide which hand to throw with?
If Senator Barack Obama finally proves that he can win the Democratic nomination for President today or tomorrow… after the snowball effect of building a grassroots movement, winning Iowa, raising millions of dollars online, and winning 11 straight primaries…
Does that mean he’ll have put the finishing touches on the Obama-nominatable Snowman?
Maybe a riff on Barack Obama is your new bicycle (or at least a very interesting counterpoint), here are some things younger than John McCain. Included are—well, I won’t spoil the surprise. Just visit the site.
I know it’s silly and clichéd and unoriginal for me to say this, but I love the Internet.
I guess used bookstore owners don’t really need to make lists entitled “books to be filed.”
Some people take this stuff very seriously.
John Nichols, a great writer for The Nation, writes that Bill Clinton “has proven to be about as useful to Hillary Clinton prospects in 2008 as former Florida Congressman Mark Foley was to House Republicans in 2006.”
Hilarious. The whole blog post is here.
Maybe only I would find this amusing:
ALASKA/ BRITISH COLUMBIA/ WASHINGTON/ OREGON/ AND CALIFORNIA COASTAL AREAS
1052 AM PST THU FEB 28 2008
...THIS IS A TEST TO DETERMINE TRANSMISSION TIMES INVOLVED IN THE DISSEMINATION OF TSUNAMI INFORMATION...
I wrote, on 7/21/07:
Here I am at Word Camp.
And that was as far as I got before I realized that blogging using T9Word sucks.