The Dores figure to be a pre-season top 5 team in 2011 and will be previewed in 6 parts.
This is the fourth in a six part series on Vanderbilt baseball’s 2011 season. Among all my most unhealthy habits, an addiction to following the Commodores baseball squad seems to be the most pervasive and difficult to crack. As a result, I’ve turned a time-wasting bit of fanaticism and converted it into a chance to write a bit. You can read each preview by clicking below on the links that follow the jump.
It should be noted that while this website endeavors to provide a solid team preview, membership over at VandySports.com is a must for any Commodore baseball fan. Chris Lee and Mike Rapp produce stellar premium content which is well worth the money spent. I know there’s no way I could follow the team as intently as I do without it.
Up today is a concise season preview, featuring a quick breakdown of how the Fall went, a look at roster surprises, my projected lineup and rotation and my predictions for how the season will bear out in the SEC.
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The Dores figure to be a pre-season top 5 team in 2011 and will be previewed in 6 parts.
This is the timely (or long overdue, I don’t know) intermission in what was intended to be a two week, five part series on Vanderbilt baseball’s 2011 season. Among all my most unhealthy habits, an addiction to following the Commodores baseball squad seems to be the most pervasive and difficult to crack. As a result, I’ve turned a time-wasting bit of fanaticism and converted it into a chance to write a bit.
Alas, work and life sometimes must take precedence. I billed a ridiculous number of hours at the office in November and December and my lofty efforts to get Parts 4, 5 nd 6 done fell by the wayside, for a bit. Throw in finally moving into my apartment during the period and trying to get settled, and the finales weren’t getting done. January has brought a still busy workload, a high ankle sprain we thought was broken and a quick outpatient surgery. Now as the Commodores head into Fall Practice (this past Friday), I thought I’d endeavor to get this wrapped up in the next week or two.
You can read each preview by clicking below on the links that follow the jump.
So, back when Randall Munroe updated his blogo/social network-sphere map a couple of months ago, I decided to delve back into my posting of amusing maps floating around on the interwebs regarding geocentric ignorance. Well, Munroe has taken on the subject himself in an appropriately XKCD manner. Click the image to be redirected to XKCD for the larger look or click here for my Part One or over here for Part Two of my looks at amusing maps.
This movie looks like the perfect mix of Michael Bey and entertainment gritty enough that you don’t wish you could watch Michael Bey get… well… Bey-ed. It has a very District 9 look to it, which is cool.
So in last night’s Vandy win over Georgia, Jeffery Taylor landed a jam so jaw dropping that it elevated all the way to ESPN Sportscenter’s Top 10 play number 1. It was the definition of good vert, with Jeff’s head pretty much at the rim.
But the question is whether it can compete with some of Jeff’s past dunks and the infamous Lance Goulbourne dunk on UMass.
A constant reader of this blog or anyone who has spent time discussing the subject with me will probably be able to tell that I’ve gone through a religious journey of sorts in the past few years. More accurately, I’ve delved into the topic, weighing philosophical, historical and scientific texts to determine that I am perfectly capable of being good without god and that, as a non-believer, I am proud to call myself an atheist.
While at times there are elements of religion I cannot accept or respect, I generally consider myself (or at least would like to consider myself) to be happily respectful of others’ rights to practice their religions and hold their own beliefs. I only ask that those individuals do not attempt to establish theocracies or impose their religious mandates on others.
My coming out as an atheist has also accompanied a continuing desire to learn more about various other religions. This edition of TED Tuesday includes three religious figures presenting at various TED conferences. They include a journalist experimenting with living an orthodox Christian life, a pop-culture pastor talking about how each of us should live uniquely, and an imam who just happens to be that guy building the mis-labeled “ground zero” mosque.
For the record, my resolution is to take a bit more me time this year. Spend it a little less on things I do for work and a bit more on things I do for me, my friends and my family.
look to it, which is cool.
