Today I discuss the rise of the strikeouts in the modern era amongst other random thoughts.

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By the way, this daily show, "The Baseball Show" is really awesome. I have been checking them out this year everyday. One of them has the interesting name of Lifshitz. Exactly. His first name is Ralph. He's from Massachusetts and is a really good analyst. His cohort Andy Singleton (from NYC) is equally awesome.

Anyway, check this out.

Don't sleep on the Milwaukee Brewers this year y'all. Up and down the lineup -- and even on the bench. The pitching staff isn't all that bad either. Defense might be an issue however.

This is starting to get fun. I would like to add imported pictures, video, and stats to my comments, but that takes time. I got the skills and the software, but again, culling the various data and using the video software is time consuming. In general, assume 5 minutes of raw video takes 20 minutes of back ground work, depending upon the amount of addition. And the time it takes to process is not insignificant either, except that when you are processing you don't have to be engaged. The process is quicker once you set up templates, but you still have to cull and organize what you put in the placeholders.

But that is my eventual goal. For now, I am satisfied with the raw unedited video footage of myself mouthing off about baseball. My second love. :-)

By the way, Youtube has gotten a lot better with their upload user interface. OMG it used to be a pain as those of you who know will attest. Now, you just open the upload dialogue, drag and drop, and type in the words and preferences while the video uploads. The new video manager window is also now tremendously awesome and very easy to navigate. Thanks Youtube-Google.