Yeah, I think in my haste, I got those two mixed up. Sorry, everybody!
Yeah, I think in my haste, I got those two mixed up. Sorry, everybody!
Two years ago, when I started writing this column, I set up "biggest controversy" as one of the categories. Sometimes, there's controversy about how Wikipedia presents its information. Sometimes, a controversial topic that gets covered on the Wiki page. And once in a while, I cover a page that's a purely mathematical…
I think we all assumed someone else would, and didn't want to go for the obvious.
As it turns out, I mistakenly added an "e" onto the end of Radbourne, so consider this my last message before I'm given a sound thrashing by a whiskey-addled Hoss and thrown in the river. Which, let's face it, I deserve.
Even better!
That was a terrific find.
I spent longer on trying to word that than on anything else in the column, and clearly I still didn't get it quite right. Basically, if you're coming from the east, it's the first really tall mountain you hit, but then the Rockies get taller as you continue across the range. Maybe "taller than anything East of the…
As the writer of this column, I'll let you in on some inside information: I have absolutely no idea why that happens sometimes.
Twitter follower @alexremington sent me a great update to this week's story, which is that the Hoboken baseball origin story is only slightly less mythical than the Abner Doubleday one, and in fact baseball's real origins are almost impossibly murky. A great read: http://www.hardballtimes.co…
Actually, if you took over one of the Stevens University buildings, on a hill at the river's edge, overlooking the Manhattan skyline, that'd be some pretty damn fine real estate for a Hall of Fame.
I love the Players' League — a baseball strike got so far out of hand the players formed their own league and played two full seasons before working things out with the owners!
Smithers' wordless response to this is great voice acting by Shearer. He does a nervous mutter that manages to convey Smithers internally debating, "should I tell him, or do I want to open that can of worms…?"
"A shabby, plucked sparrow of a man" might be the best phrase in the entirety of Wikipedia.
Don't forget Old Hoss Radbourn!
Fair enough. Although when I researched the claim, I found a conflicting account somewhere of whether the Speedwell actually crossed the ocean. But now I can't remember where. I'm riddled with inaccuracies!!!
I can't help but hear that in Dr. Venkman's voice.
#FargoSeason3
You can say all the same things about Buffalo. Funny how places with tons of pollution tend to have world class health care. Buffalo has Love Canal, and one of the best cancer research facilities in the world. Must be a coincidence.
Basically every state has some piece of it that wants to break away. I wrote a Wiki Wormhole on it!
Yes. We always slow down a bit during the last two weeks of the year. But there will be limited Newswires, some regular features, and we've banked some content in advance. So we're not completely off the air, just on a relaxed vacation schedule.