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Dean & Deluca
Napa, California
Today’s random desktop image of the day comes not from Japan but from a trip to Napa we took early last year. The displays of candy, chocolates, desserts, and other things designed to put a few pounds on a consumer were mere eye candy for me.
Death Angel’s Mark Osegueda
In some parts of the world you can buy Death Angel‘s latest masterpiece today. In the USA we have to wait a few more days. However, you can listen to it, in its entirety, until October 14, 2013 by clicking on “listening party” here.
Bergen from Fløyen
On one of the rare days in which it isn’t raining in Bergen, the place is absolutely beautiful. With average rainfall approaching 100 inches per year (for reference for those of you, like me, who live in the Pacific Northwest, that’s more than Portland and Seattle combined!), a view like this isn’t frequently possible. I hope to visit Bergen again someday.
Photomerge of Lansdowne Street from left field in Boston’s Fenway Park
Today begins the 2013 American League Division Series.
“Rise Up… War!”
Born just a few miles from, and a few weeks before, me, Alex Skolnick of Testament turns 45 today.
Oakland A’s World Series Champion years
The 2013 Major League Baseball post-season spots are all locked up and the “experts” have all been proven wrong yet again. The Washington Nationals are not going to the World Series (or even the playoffs!). Nor are the Anaheim Angels or New York Yankees. Other big spending teams that came up short are the San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, and Toronto Blue Jays.
Nobody predicted that low-budget teams like the A’s and Pirates would make the playoffs, and yet here they are alive and well despite payrolls less than half many teams that didn’t make it to the postseason. The A’s payroll is less than a third of the Yankees or Dodgers even though the A’s have more wins than either of those teams. The A’s paid about half a million in player salaries per win while the Yankees forked over about $3 million for each victory. The Giants and Phillies won’t come close to winning half their games despite spending about $100 million more than the A’s or Pirates.
Let’s hope the Dodgers, Tigers, Red Sox, and other big spenders make a quick exit this post season.