The beginning (first modern World Series) and thus the end (as far back as we can go).
Mike Schilling
Mike has been a software engineer far longer than he would like to admit. He has strong opinions on baseball, software, science fiction, comedy, contract bridge, and European history, any of which he's willing to share with almost no prompting whatsoever.
The deadball days, when Babe Ruth was still a Red Sox pitcher, the classic stadia like Fenway...
Why not go back to the Roaring 20s, the age of flappers, bathtub gin, and the Babe?...
There is no doubt that Bob Uecker was a very funny man. It's hard to count the...
The years Y = 1, 9, 36, 100, 225, 441, 784, 1296, 2025, 3025 … all follow...
I had such a good time putting together the recent recap of 2020s World Series, I decided...
It's time for our quinquennial recap of recent World Series.
It's hard to imagine that Willie Mays is gone. We'll miss him.
The Rolling Stones covered the classic pop tune "Under The Boardwalk"...which made me wonder what other versions...
The Water Lily Pond is a 2016 science fiction novel by our own Michael Siegel.
We haven't done one of these in quite some time. Each clue is the first sentences of...
"Free speech" is not without cost.
Since The Beatles "White Album" came out, people have been saying a single-album version would be a...
A piece that's beloved, and for good reason. Today, we'll discuss an even better-known Haydn Symphony, the...
"Desktop covid dividers and a refrigerator was “to be recycled.” But the five books deemed inappropriate were...
Excerpt from the Texas GOP Platform.
RNC calls trying to subvert the election process "legitimate political discourse".
If you saw the HBO show about Chernobyl, a common reaction among viewers was that such a...
This week, we examine another work that sounds even more like late Mozart. "Sounds like late Mozart"...
Sometimes it’s nice hearing something comfortable! Schubert's 5th Symphony breaks no new ground. It is Mozart in...
