Ok, so I was horribly, horribly wrong when I stood out on Dan's porch during the All Star Game and "predicted" the playoff contendors.  I believe I said...

AL
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East - Boston Red Sox
Central - Detroit Tigers
West - LA Angels
Wild Card - New York Yankees

NL
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East - New York Mets
Central - Chicago Cubs
West - LA Dodgers
Wild Card - San Diego Padres

So, 50%-- ( Read more... )

So the Tigers were in old Ohio tonight for the first of two showdowns to see who really is the hot dog in the AL Central.  More importantly, Jeremy Bonderman of Mike's 9-Man Bonkers was squaring off head-to-head with the Shining Wizards' CC Sabathia.  What was to come of it all???

- If the kids recall, the last time these two teams squared off it ( Read more... )

The bar exam is two weeks away-two!  That means it is finally time for me to get serious about studying.  To be sure, I have taken this whole thing quite seriously, though knowing myself as well as I do, I hesitated locking on Murder Death Kill mode until right now.  Why?  If my academic history has proven anything to me, it’s that I synthesize and ( Read more... )

It’s 6:23am and I haven’t been to bed yet.  I don’t really plan on it at this point.  I saw the sun rise, read some Greek, said a few prayers-sleeping now would waste it all.

I made a mistake earlier of going through Live Journal in connect-the-dots fashion.  Not surprisingly, the content out there doesn’t age like a fine wine.  Most people who ( Read more... )

For the four or five people who see me every week and read this, I thought about posting something more on Chris Benoit.  Then I realized that it doesn’t “matter” anymore than if I posted about the umpteen other horrible events that go on every day which newspapers tend to miss.  It’s not that murder is ever something to be casually glossed over, ( Read more... )

Occasionally, I find myself mulling over in my mind previous discussions/debates I have had with people over the years.  Like all such things, one always uncovers about a dozen points they coulda, shoulda, woulda made had they been more on their toes then.  Even if the argument was decidedly in one’s favor, there’s always that jugular-slashing ( Read more... )

I’ve been “studying” for the bar exam for the last several weeks and so far I’ve learned that I have retained a lot more from law school than I thought…and about subjects I hated.  The best example so far is Evidence which, despite doing alright in the class, I never found to be that captivating.  Yet my retention is off the charts compared with ( Read more... )

After a three-year departure, I have returned to Grand Rapids for an undetermined amount of time to see what the next step will be.  I’ve only been back two weeks and already I feel out of place in this city.  I thought that would never happen.  During my first year in Chicago I believed I had made a terrible mistake in leaving and that all I could ( Read more... )