Rick Ankiel
by trza on Aug 10, 2007 12:01 PM CDT
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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2967582
A very inspiring story in a brutal season for the Cardinals.
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Good for him
I'd love to see him as their starting RF next year.
Ankiel's story
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f_7PzR9H_54
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To be able to make it to the majors as both a pitcher and a hitter---wow.
On the liberal media (All Things Considered)
The Ankiel meltdown seems like it was ages ago, but he's still a pretty young guy. Best of luck to him. Very inspirational.
by Dustin on Aug 10, 2007 11:22 PM CDT reply actions
All Things Considered
PBS in D.C. is all dicked up. They switched to this asanine, polarizing format where they spend 60% of their time taking calls from phone lines that are designated either dem or repub (the other 40% is dry-as-a-desert CSPAN-like broadcasts).
So you have to wade through wack jobs from the far right and left, when, the fact of the matter is, I really don't give the remotest shit what John and Jane Doe think.
Repub line: "This is Myrtle from Gainesville, I'm callin to say that all these Jane Fonda Commies need to shut it and let our CINC kill these Iraquans that bombed 911. Black is negative, red is positive. Die hippieragheadlovers, die."
Dem line: "This is Jenny from Paso Robles, when are we gonna try Dumbya and and that haliburton stooge Cheney for high treason and war crimes on humanity? What's the diff between Bush and Hitler? Hitler was elected."
I wish I was exaggerating...
by Brian Thomas on Aug 10, 2007 11:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh, dear god
Today I caught a piece about rookie ball players somewhere in Montana. It was just players, parents, and coaches all talking about the experience, pretty cool.
Yep
by Dustin on Aug 11, 2007 12:08 AM CDT up reply actions
As it Happens
You'd think that DC would have the very best public radio, but when I was there in the late nineties that wasn't the case either. I don't remember it being as bad as you describe, though. Sad.
Sounds like a bunch of bloggers calling in.
They don't have All Things Considered in DC at all? That's just nuts. I swear they had it when I was there.
by Dustin on Aug 11, 2007 12:10 AM CDT up reply actions
As it happens
As far as D.C. goes, they did have the typical setup until roughly the New Year. Then they transitioned one station to all classical, and the other to all partisan-everyman-useless-call-in-crapfestivus.
If I want news now, I listen to Washington Post radio. It's ok.
by Brian Thomas on Aug 11, 2007 9:17 AM CDT up reply actions
No As it Happens
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kera/guide.guidemain?t=1
The public radio here is just awesome. The locally produced "Think" is really great, and they have that "Radio Lab" on Fridays which is usually very interesting, too. They were both added to the schedule after I moved. The rest of it is a pretty standard NPR/PRI lineup.
In Austin they'd have Morning Edition, then go to music all day (sometimes it was great and other times boring -- but the DJ's got to play what they wanted to play and you have to respect that). Then Fresh Air with Terri Gross would come on at 3 o'clock, I think, followed by All Things Considered and then Marketplace. Then they'd go back to music. Some of the night time music on there was good. Can't remember the names of the shows. "Twine Time" or something like that was good.
Then on weekends they'd have something called Folkways which was sometimes pretty good but usually just terrible. It always got better around the time of the Kerrville festival when decent artists would be around to play in studio.
Not enough indie rock on KUT for me. They'd always mix in a little, especially with the daily live set on Eklecticos, but I worked in an office and could rarely listen to that. On late Friday afternoons they'd always play a bunch of Brazilian music, which I could never understand because it's not like Austin has a bunch of Brazilians and Portuguese living there.
So, yeah, generally I prefer the talk.
Go to KUT's website, though. They archive all the live performances on Eklecticos and a lot of them are really good, especially around SxSW time.
by Dustin on Aug 11, 2007 12:55 PM CDT up reply actions
KERA
One major problem I have with PBS TV these days, other than the forementioned, is all these rock concerts, doo-wop specials, etc. Is this stuff really under-served in the market? Is there nowhere else to hear/see rock music? This just seem like a blatant attempt to pander to boomers for donations instead of programming according to real needs.
Yeah
by Dustin on Aug 11, 2007 8:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Ankiel
Really great story.
Ankiel
awesome
by Dustin on Aug 11, 2007 8:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Another
Mike Stodolka was drafted by the Royals in the first round as a left-handed pitcher in 2000. He battled threw several arm injuries, spending six years in the minors as a pitcher.
Finally they gave up on him as a pitcher last year and he held his own in the Cal league last year as a first baseman. This year, he is putting up a .296/.407/.476 line at AA.
Ankiel is a great story and I'd like to see this kid make it too.
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