Tom is Away

The waiting.

Headed to south st to read from my new book, which was just good enough for my agent to sever ties with me.   so, disaster potential.

Teaching breakthrough: I’ve reached the point where my students feel okay telling me about all of their illegal drug ezperience

Eagles on the verge of giving away Asante Samuel because he’s unhappy. Samuel is unhappy because they acquired two guys to replace him last year. Both replacements were noticeably worse than him last year. Eagles prepared to make trade for 6th rounder anyway, because they’ve backed themselves into a corner (no pun) and have no choice. This is what you call bad management.

morning depression: driving into work, saw a dog (a chihuahua, maybe?) lying in the right lane, having been hit by a car. On the shoulder, another small dog, frantic, trying to dart into the road to check on its companion, narrowly avoiding cars itself.
Pulled over, called 911, will never know what happened next.

so what good is Juan Pierre’s speed if he’s always making outs on the basepaths?

oh, also Bookfight #4 is up.

last week of the semester is happening. A little more behind schedule than usual.

“To the shock of most sentient beings, Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a long battle for relevancy with the 24-hour news cycle, blogs and the Internet.”

oh, also, hey, by the way– i hate that the NFL is just going with a full-on Thursday schedule. Even though it’s totally predictable. You know they have a wednesday game this year? How soon before they’re asking people to watch 5-6 days/week? How soon before they realize that’s probably a bad idea?

Headed to DC tomorrow, prepping for the C & C conference.

preparing for another podcast recording. 4 episodes = 3 more than I ever expected to do.

Jamie Moyer has pitched to 8% of hitters in major league history

See, expecting disappointment just makes it go down easier.

Boathouse row is a little less cool on a dreary fall-ish day

what’s the word for when you expect people to disappoint you terribly, and then they don’t?
18 out of 20 students showed for morning class. Now preparing myself for extreme disappointment later.

Tom Verducci explains why the “big time closer” is overrated and the current system of handling pitchers doesn’t make sense

woke up angry, just thinking about how pointless my classes are going to be today.

Tomorrow is Temple’s Spring Fling, which means a minimum of 60% of my students will either be absent because they’re drinking, or they’ll be drunk in my class. Preemptively angry.

trying to teach the dog that the basement is about 10 degrees cooler than everywhere else in the house.