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Eurorails is a game is based upon the Empire Builder only with a European map and rules for the chunnel and ferries.
Eurorails by Mayfair Games $50 ($37 at Amazon)
We’ve never played it before so we’ll see how it goes, I’ll likely review it this weekend.
I’ve written quite a bit about Katherine Jenerette’s campaign for the SC-1 seat for a guy who lives in north central Massachusetts, but if you want to actually hear what she has to say in her own words in front of the voters who will actually decide if she will represent them, here is your chance…
I must admit I have a soft spot for her, particularity when I see comments like this on articles:
Ironic. If the Cradle-to-Grave-ObamaCare goes down in flames, it won’t be due to powerful Washington players or big money.
It will be the voices of thousands of unborn children and some brave Congressman who stood their ground concerning Federal Funding with Tax Dollars and those unborn children.
Babies and Taxes Dollars and Power. Who would have thought it?
For someone who has been fighting planned parenthood in Fitchburg, words like this are music to my ears.
I’m a sentimental guy so I absolutely loved this story:
The one time face of the organization announced today that he had signed a one-day minor league deal in order to retire as a member of the Red Sox. Garciaparra could not hide his emotions during a press conference held earlier this morning. At times struggling to get the words out, he expressed genuine happiness in being afforded this opportunity to leave the game of baseball in the same uniform he so dramatically entered in.
ESPN talked a bit about how things don’t always work out the way we expect:
But for a moment in time, Garciaparra was the darling among them. In that fourth season (2000), Garciaparra went 3-for-5 in the first game of a mid-July doubleheader in Baltimore — I was there — to lift his batting average to .403.
.403
Garciaparra went 0-for-5 in the second game that evening, stayed in the .390-.400 range for another few weeks, then batted .346 from Aug. 14 through the end of the season to finish at .372. Still …
.372
What we didn’t know was that Garciaparra had a wrist injury. A serious injury. In 2001, he didn’t play until late July, struggled in 21 games and shut things down for the rest of the season. There was a surgery, and it was “successful” … but Garciaparra would never again be that player, never again a threat to win a batting title or an MVP award.
I knew a guy who was convinced that Robin Ventura would be one of the greatest hitters of all time. Same thing.
But the best story as one might expect came from the best sports section in the country (although the rest of the paper rots), the Boston Globe:
“I teared up when I heard it,’’ K.J. Meline, a 61-year-old from Brentwood, N.H., said as she prepared to tour the park with her family. “I always loved him, and this just feels right.’’
For many, the man remembered yesterday was the “No Mah’’ who had electrified fans at shortstop and pushed .400 at the plate — and not the one criticized as a greedy, petulant ballplayer who let a contract dispute interfere with his play.
It is a nice ending to a story that for a brief period of time shone brightly across the New England Landscape.
Nomar always reminded me of Kirby Puckett a great hitter who swung at too many pitchers, but always managed to get hits anyway, at least until he got hurt.
And if you are superstitious consider…
…the last time Nomar left the Sox …we won the series!
Oh and Dan Shaughnessy dissents.
Today we are going to start a new feature called around the blogroll where we take a look at three posts from blogs on my blogroll:
At Adrienne’s Corner (It will always be Adrienne’s Catholic Corner to me) she has the: “Are you a Democrat, Republican or a Redneck?” test:
You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children.
Suddenly, an Islamic Terrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, raises the knife, and charges at you.
You are carrying a Colt 1911 cal. 45 ACP, and you are an expert shot.
You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family
What do you do?
Even my wife found it funny and she hates politics and blogs (Good thing she likes me more).
HotMES goes after that abomination called Jersey Shore:
These kids are such chumps I don’t even know what to say half the time. The guys think that they represent what it means to be Italian? That’s the worst joke I’ve ever heard. I know plenty of Italians and they don’t consider tans and hair gel as representative of their heritage. The best part about the show was when that one girl, who I find to be repulsive on too many levels to list, gets punched in the face.
I don’t know who raised these idiots but if they are not ashamed of themselves the ought to be. They wouldn’t last 5 minutes with my Sicilian mother, she’d straighten them out.
and finally Riehl World View also focuses on New Jersey but with a more substantive issue, namely the old Raaaaacist cry being directed at Tea Party People in Bob Menendez’s name:
several prominent NJ Democrats are playing the race card, actually labeling the movement as raaaacist. This is an issue for Menendez now. If he doesn’t step up, denounce these statements and tell NJ Democrats to chill, he may soon find himself the target of Tea Party and grassroots activists from around the country, not just his home state!
There are no more motivated voters these days than the tea party guys. Menendez goes after them at their peril and it will end badly for him.
Tune in tomorrow for another look at the blogs I look at.
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