Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
I have been on the road all day so am just seeing now that one of my favorite beer bloggers, Simon “Reluctant Scooper” Johnson of England, has passed away far too young. That’s my favorite of the portraits of himself he posted over the years. I never met Simon but we talked now and then … Continue reading “Sad News Of The Loss Of A Great Guy”
God love the nerds who load information into the internet: Saturday, Sept. 11, 1976 TV listings CHSJ (CBAT) Channel 4 Saint John / Channel 7 Moncton (CBC) 12:30 Circle Square 1:00 Onedin Line 2:00 Space: 1999 3:00 Saturday Sports 5:00 Water Skiing 6:00 Klahanie 6:30 Pop! Goes the Country 7:00 Hawaii Five-O 8:00 Baseball – … Continue reading “What I Watched The First Saturday Of Grade Eight”
Ron got me thinking. He was making fun of something written by Horst Dornbusch today, the “man of a million unfounded claims,” when I noticed something about pale ale coming into being around 1800 when coke was first used. I knew that was wrong so I started digging around for references to straw dried pale … Continue reading “Oh, For A Mug O’ Fern Ale To Keep Strangers Away”
It was one of the best games I have ever attended in any sport. Bizarrely, this morning Canadian sports media are not covering it as their lead story. Had Bay hit the run and Canada gone on to win, the nation would have gloated for years. But the outcome was immaterial to the quality of … Continue reading “Adam Dunn Apparently Does Not Suck So Much”
Team GX40 …but now I am so I am a big loser. We zipped across and I didn’t even take a picture for you: TnT ties! Reminds me of how I felt on 16 June 1990. Got made fun of by a US border guard again and got the chilly and very professional treatment from … Continue reading “I Went And I Didn’t Blog It…”
Well, it only lasted two and a half innings and I got soaked but it was OK. I get to get my money back for the tickets because the game didn’t make it to the fifth. Plus, Gentleman potter Gary made me a piggy beer mug in the style and then, before the rain, Fergie … Continue reading “Rained Out In Cooperstown”
Today’s column from Damien Cox hits the nail on the head – something big is up: Those who cling to strains of discredited orthodoxy, suggesting that the NHL doesn’t need to change one single thing about its game, are now clearly the minority. The voices calling out for a faster, more offensive NHL are becoming … Continue reading “Is It Hockey or Me?”