Windows 8

I wandered over to the Microsoft site today to check out a sneak peak of Windows 8 and I wasn’t quite sure what to think. It’s not that I’m a fan of one company over another (though I am writing this on a Mac) but the Windows 8 tiles interface looks a little...

A Taste of Hudson

People ask me what I’ll do with myself now that I don’t have baseball to fill up my time. My usual answer is, “anything that I want,” which, I’ll admit, often sounds more confident than I actually mean it to. That’s because in my...

The Purpose

  Getting released at baseball is not as simple as packing up your team bag and hitting the road. While the sight of your career—neatly folded, ball in glove, shoes cleaned one final time—packed into a travel bag is, in itself, remarkable, the biggest part of a...

Shooting Home

Yesterday I paid a visit to my parents house. I guess I wondered if things would be different there now that I wasn’t a player anymore, If the walls and doors would remember me. They did. And I remembered them, where I came from, and all I’d done in my...

Post Release Auction Party.

Well, the best way to make use of bad news is by doing something good with it. Now that I’m done for this season, it’s time to use my old gear for a new cause. Below you’ll see some of the items I will have up for my seasonal charity auction in the...

Getting Released

First, a deep and profound thank you to all the people who took the time to wish me good luck and stay strong via email, tweet, or blog comment. Things like that make me feel like my primary goal of somehow, someway becoming more than just another uniform occupant...