Last season's Opening Day was cloudy and 54 degrees. Will this year's weather be better or worse?
As of this morning, 46 votes have been cast; Worse is outpolling better 65%-35%. Optimism, people! Optimism! You can get that up to at least 80-20.
The Great.Lakes.Loons. and Dow Corning have a FEVER! And the only pre-SCRIPTION is SCIENCE!
Four local high school students will have a chance to win $1,000 for themselves and another $1,000 for their school by winning the Science of Baseball contest, a competitive event sponsored by the Great Lakes Loons and Dow Corning Corporation.
The Loons and Dow Corning have invited 74 high schools in the area to field a four-person team of students (with an advisor) to develop a project that relates science to the sport of baseball. Teams are being asked to write a five-page paper on the topic, and will have access to a Dow Corning scientist to help establish their hypothesis. Papers are due April 27, 2007. The papers will be read by a panel of distinguished judges, including representatives from Dow Corning.
The heck with learning! I'd want the $1,000.
The Chiefs play 10 questions with their manager, Ryne Sandberg. You may have heard of him. Just a few:
1. What Manager(s) that you played for do you think you learned the most from heading into your first year as a manager?
Jim Frey made me more af an impact type hitter in 1984 and always had great words of advice. The other one would be Don Zimmer. He loved to hit and run, be aggressive and make things happen. Of course we also won under both of these managers so that helped!
2. Who were some of your favorite teammates with the Cubs?
Wow, there were so many. Definitely Doug Dascenzo, Dwight Smith, Rick Sutcliffe, Shawon Dunston, Andre Dawson and Mark Grace. There were a lot but those are a few that stick out.
10. Had you not played baseball, what career path would you have taken?
Well I would have tried to play in the NFL next. I was a Parade High School All-American quarterback in 1978. I would have gone to Washington State had I not been drafted in baseball. I had scholarship offers from most of the Pac-10 - Washington , UCLA, Oregon, Oregon State - along with Oklahoma and Nebraska . If neither baseball nor football worked out, I would have been a veterinarian.
No. He would have been a Hall of Fame veterinarian.
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