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Comment on Hockey heaven: UNO tops Ohio State in 7-round shootout by Matt

Matt — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:40:37 +0000

Hockey night for me was tonight. The Missouri Mavericks are really pretty terrible, but the best thing ever was the kids playing during first intermission. One team’s goalie had an Iron Man goalie mask. He was pretty terrible too, but he had the coolest mask EVER!

Comment on Hockey Night Photopolooza! by Hockey heaven: UNO tops Ohio State in 7-round shootout « Getting to First Base

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:56:22 +0000

[...] February 6, 2010 at 6:41 pm | In Minda's Take | 1 Comment [Note: Photos are here! I took roughly 2 million, so it took a while to sift through them and find the best ones to [...]

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Hockey Night Photopolooza! « Getting to First Base — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:55:30 +0000

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Comment on Jason Whitlock was absolutely, 100% correct…athletes are NOT role models by Links 'n stuff « The Temporary Home of Royal Blues

Links 'n stuff « The Temporary Home of Royal Blues — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:20:04 +0000

[...] by how much I agreed with Jason Whitlock’s latest column in the KC Star, where he says we should NOT look up to athletes as role models. That is 100% [...]

Comment on Think all pro baseball players are rich? Think again. by “No one likes a girl who won’t sober up” « girl unafraid

“No one likes a girl who won’t sober up” « girl unafraid — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:11:53 +0000

[...] of my girls, Minda had a great post back in December over at Getting To First Base about minor league ball players and the money they [...]

Comment on Jason Whitlock was absolutely, 100% correct…athletes are NOT role models by Matt

Matt — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:07:03 +0000

That article was one of few the past 6 months that I actually read from Whitlock, much less agreed with. But he’s absolutely right, you can’t rely on perfect strangers to raise your children for you.

I’m also wondering if this is more of a recent phenomenon. When I think back to my childhood hero George Brett, I don’t recall ever wanting to live my life like him. I admired his baseball abilities, but baseball was the extent of his existence as far as I was concerned.

Also, girls seem to flock to jerks whether they’re good at anything or not. But that’s just been my experience.

Comment on My Year in Cities by Matt

Matt — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:58:23 +0000

I went nowhere this year. Well, if we’re counting hometowns, then KC.

Your list is rather impressive compared to mine. I’m hoping to go out to LA this summer, so there might be that.

Comment on Regarding marching bands by Andy Hutchins

Andy Hutchins — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:49:50 +0000

Co-signed.

Comment on Think all pro baseball players are rich? Think again. by Matt

Matt — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:14:04 +0000

First of all, I hope the surgery goes well tomorrow. I’ll be thinking of you.
Second, I knew that minor leaguers didn’t make crazy money (over 100k) but I didn’t know that it was so disturbingly low. The minimum a person should make on a job of that nature should be around 25-50k per year. At least enough for a modest living.
But I can totally understand why they choose to go for it. If I had even the tiniest bit of talent, I would do the exact same thing.

Comment on Hockey! Photography! Victory! by Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:56:28 +0000

Enjoyed the pics! Good luck with surgery.