Mr. Yoder’s Blog

I’m going to blatantly steal Rick Reilly’s idea of ‘Too Short for a Column’ and combine a few thoughts.

• It goes without saying the Bud Selig is an idiot, and it also goes without saying that Armando Galarraga threw a perfect game.  Using his ‘In the Best Interests of the Game’ superpower, Bud should have declared it a perfect game.  However, it seems he can only ever use that when his decision clearly is NOT in the best interests of the game.  It reminds me of the old baseball story:  After a particularly bad call, a player turns to the ump and says ‘everyone in the stadium knows that was a bad call,’ and the ump says, ‘but mine is the only opinion that matters.’  I guess it is only Bud’s opinion that matters in this case.  For Mac users, the end is in sight, however.
• Last weekend my wife made a really cool birthday cake for my youngest son:
• I recently finished The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan.  It took me forever both to read it and to start reading it.  I was a bit scared of a double digit series of 600+ page books that wasn’t done because the author died of cancer.  There’s a guy finishing it, which is good.  I’m looking forward to the second book after a break.
• Right after Eye of the World I read Outcast by Aaron Allston.  It is a book in the Fate of the Jedi series and felt so short in comparison, it was like I blinked and missed it.  It was a good book, didn’t require too much thought and only addressed a pair of plot lines.  I really enjoy the interaction between Luke and his son Ben.  I’m currently engaged in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, but I look forward to reading the next book in Fate of the Jedi, Allies, soon.  Maybe that way I can remember what happened in Outcast.