The Prisons Of Our Design

In no way do I mean to pick on Chicago per se, necessarily. I love the city; I made plenty of 6-8 hour drives from my dinky little college in Iowa between 2000 and 2004 to enjoy the city and it remains on my list of preferred cities to live in should my day job [...]

Stealing Signals: Changing His Evil Ways

Angels 4, Royals 0 - I don’t think you could have gone up to an Angels fan and told them that Ervin Santana would have rebounded quite in this fashion after being just awful in road starts in 2007.  Santana pitched a complete game shutout against Kansas City, and he actually needed to be that [...]

Above The Rim: Catch-Up Thoughts

I’ll believe the Spurs are out of the playoffs when they’re actually out of the playoffs, meaning someone has beaten them four games out of seven. The Spurs being down 2-0 is not any other team being down by the margin that usually means playoff doom. But let’s say this does not look good for [...]