- I was sitting and thinking about cooking dinner last night, when what should happen but a Vicious storm blows in. The tornado sirens went off and there were reports of tornadoes in the western suburbs, with the path of one of them headed just to the north of me. I decided to postpone dinner for a little bit and spend some quality time in the basement sorting out some boxes. The Strib’s take is Storm rumbles, rips across state It does damage, but no injuries are reported, which mentions that the temperature went from the mid-80s to the mid-60s in a few minutes with the passing of the storm, too. I have a couple friends who live over in the Como neighborhood that got clobbered. Hope their house is okay. Update: 9:20 AM. Just got an email. Doug & Kris are just fine. Other houses on their block made the TV news last night, though. [strib and press-patch]
- Lou Gelfand looks back at The journey you helped make possible, with his years as the reader representative at the Star Tribune. There have been stories that he was canned because they figured he was too old, but I wonder if that’s the whole story. [strib]
- Remember the Spiderman promotion I didn’t think much of? Well, Mike Veeck ‘loved’ web idea, and thinks it would add fun to the game and interest kids. He’s got a point, I guess, but then I’m one of those
purists
who doesn’t especially like the non-stop promotion and noise that you find at most baseball games. I do agree that it’s important to selling the club though. Without the carnival atmosphere at Saints games, it would be a lot harder to interest newbies. [press-patch]
On the cold front (and not the weather), I now have a sore throat and earache. Damn. The cold has migrated and looks like it’ll be hanging in there longer than I’d hoped. I’m hoping I’ll be able to work through it, but the way I feel right now, that’s far from certain.