My Yamaha receiver is now about 13 years old, so I find myself wondering to see the new stereo receiver technology out there. This Onkyo unit is one of the better ones available at a modest price.*****
Saturday, January 26, 2008
A Very Sweet Receiver
My Yamaha receiver is now about 13 years old, so I find myself wondering to see the new stereo receiver technology out there. This Onkyo unit is one of the better ones available at a modest price.
Goodyear, Here Comes the Reds
It is looking more likely the Cincinnati Reds will relocate their spring training from Sarasota FL to Goodyear AZ for the'09 season. The new facility under construction in Goodyear for the Cleveland Indians is likely to be expanded to have the two Ohio major league teams be able to share it, making SW Maricopa County the place to be for all Ohioans in the March of every year.This would also keep the Colorado Rockies in Tucson along with the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Chicago Whitesox still want to move north to Glendale to join Los Angeles in the new facility there but they have yet to find a replacement team to fill the void in Tucson if they depart to Glendale. The Reds were thought to be among the best possibilities for that, but with Cincinnati focusing on Goodyear, other candidates will have to emerge. There really is only one at this time, the Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles are looking at Vero Beach for after the Dodgers leave and also Fort Lauderdale, but both sites are still shaky and up in the air. Baltimore would seem to be really a long shot being an east coast team coming all the way across the nation to train in Arizona. Better choices would be the Houston Astros, St Louis Cardinals, and Minnesota Twins. But all three of those clubs would seem to be locked in to conducting their spring training in the Sunshine State for quite some time.
When and if MLB expands down the road, it is a certainty that those two new clubs will conduct their spring training in Arizona. Chandler, Gilbert, Apache Junction, Casa Grande, and north Phoenix would all be in the running to place those teams in their community, along with Tucson.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, 1919 - 2008
Edmund Hillary accomplished one of the most achievements in the history of mankind when he and his Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay successfully scaled Mount Everest in 1953. Hillary was a hero to many, including my father. His accomplishment of being the first man to conquer the world's tallest mountain was comparable to men landing on the moon sixteen years later. Hillary used his success to benefit mankind and was a tireless philanthropist throughout his life. When I was a kid, the sleeping bags our family had were the Edmund Hillary models from Sears.*****
Bobby Fischer, 1943 - 2008
Bobby Fischer was a boyhood hero of mine due to his unmatched excellence and genius as a chess player, grandmaster, and world champion. His monthslong challenge to Russian Boris Spassky in the summer and autumn of 1972 capitivated me and millions of others. When the newspaper would publish the move by move account of the chess matches, either my father or my brother and I would recreate the matches and try to figure out and understand how Fischer was successful or not. I had his book "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" as a youth. He was always considered to be eccentric, and later actions and statements by him served to only alienate him from the world. Being a genius is not easy in a world where the mundane and normal is much easier to fit in with.*****
John Stewart, 1939 - 2008
John Stewart was a successful musician and songwriter whose career stretched from the late 1950s in to the 1980s and beyond. His song "Gold", a duet with Stevie Nicks that reached #5 on the charts in 1979 off the album "Bombs Away Dream Babies", is the song I most remember fondly and truly enjoy hearing whenever I get to do a roadtrip. Stewart was a member of the influential folk group The Kingston Trio during that group's haydays in the early to mid 1960s.*****
Happy Birthday, Sister
Today, Saturday, 26 January, is my sister MKW's birthday. We really do not celebrate birthdays so much as we get older, but I am sure your daughters will have something up their sleeves to make your special day a little brighter. Best wishes on a joyful happy day and many days ahead of sunshine and bliss in the coming year with continued success, prosperity, fun, and peace.*****
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