Book Reco: Carrying the Fire, by Michael Collins This is a fantastic look at the early space program, and of course, the Apollo 11 mission. Collins is a fine writer, who conveys the incredibly complex subject matter with simplicity, clarity, honestly, and humor.

The ESPN crew was trying to figure out who Javier Assad looks like. Their first suggestion was Danny Graves. I laughed, but it's not outlandish.

The ESPN baseball broadcast crew is markedly worse than your typical team announcers.

People are ripping the Cardinals city connect uniforms, but somebody spent 18 minutes on those. Show some respect.

MLB believes my laptop is located in Chicago for purpose of serving up local Illinois ads (read by Pat Hughes), but not convinced enough to let me watch the Reds game.