Friday!

It's Friday!  The weekend has started and it's time to look back a little.

Looking back to this afternoon- the Tigers won again.  I like the sound of that, let's hear it again.  "The Tigers won again."  Yes, it has a beautiful ring to it.  Today they beat a split squad from the Red Sox.  But with Scuturo, Youkilis, Pedroia, Veritek and Ortiz in the line up I would say it was a fair fight.

Scherzer went 4 1/3 giving up 2 runs, 2 hits, and 3 walks.  Alburquerque finished up the 5th for Max and allowed a run on 1 hit and 2 walks.  After that the Tigers' pitchers shut down the BoSox with Villarreal, Ni and Thomas pitching 4 shut out innings between them.  All of those goose eggs allowed the Tiger bats to get to work.  Buchholz must have gotten tired (or predictable) because he allowed only a solo home run until the 5th where he gave up 2 on his own and Okajima relived him and gave up 2 more.  Boesch and Raburn each homered and then Dirks put the nail in the coffin with a 2 run shot in the 9th.  Overall Detroit had 9 hits for the day.  I like baseball like this.

The Tigers have won 7 of the last 10 they have played (I know, "it's only spring training", I KNOW!).  Just to prove that "spring training" point more- guess which AL team has a higher winning per centage than Detroit.  Go ahead, guess.  If you guessed the KC Royals, well see the lady at the counter for your prize.  But still, 7 for 10!

Other things I missed this week:

In a very tough week for NPR yet another blow is delivered.  This time from within.  Garrison Keillor says that he plans to retire in 2013. It doesn't rain, but it pours for NPR!  Because I vowed not to rant in this space, I will not discuss the circus that is being created around NPR right now.  I will allow others to do it for me.

Monday was Pi Day (3/14 get it?).  So in honor of Pi Day, here is a video showing some of the wondrous aspects of Pi.

If you could drop 20000 super balls from a 4 story building, would you?  Of course not!  That would be irresponsible.  The responsible thing to do is to drop 20000 balls from a helicopter on to a parking lot!  This is pure awesome.  Since this took place in Utah, of course everyone helped clean up.

Finally, in honor of Geek Week here is a link to the best picture of Saturn moon you'll see today.