As an Army and Iraq War vet, I’m always in support of stuff like this: Spike TV is doing a segment on the Guys Choice Awards featuring videos from soldiers overseas. If you’re a soldier and you have a cool video you shot while overseas, go to this link and submit your video. The best [...]

As promised, here are some photos of the new house. Power will be turned on Friday and I’m hoping to be almost completely moved in that day. Cable and interwebs are turned on sometime Saturday afternoon, followed by the first BBQ on my lake-dwelling back porch either Saturday evening or Sunday afternoon.

Yes, it’s on a [...]

I’m moving into my new house this weekend. Yes, after years of apartment (and Army barracks) living, I’m finally going to have a place to myself. It’s a wood cabin on the shore of a small lake behind my church, right next door to my parents. It’s so close to the lake, in fact, that [...]

And it’s at TheFavoritesRock.com.
We’ve got two tunes for you to stream under the Listen section, so peep them and let me know what you think in the comments. The release date for the album is May 31st.

Paul DePodesta, a front office assistant for the San Diego Padres and former general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, now has a blog.
Like so many others, DePodesta first came to my attention in Moneyball, when he served as the Assistant General Manager to Billy Beane on the Oakland A’s. Paul is a brilliant baseball [...]

Zach Feinstein, a junior from Washington University, declared for the upcoming 2008 NBA draft. He’s been interviewed on radio stations and given press from guys like Henry Abbott of TrueHoop (the best basketball blog on the web).
The catch? He has no basketball experience or skills.
Zach is 5′8″ and 130 pounds, and the last time he [...]

I went to GameStop yesterday morning and reserved Grand Theft Auto IV. Yes, I know that the game came out today, and honestly I hadn’t planned on getting the game when it came out. But the reviews of the game (it’s currently sitting at 99% on both GameRankings and MetaCritic) persuaded me to take a [...]

As anyone who knows me knows, I’m a gigantic Coldplay fan. In fact, they’re my favorite band in the world and have been for a long, long time. So it was with much anticipation that I woke up this morning and downloaded the new single, Violet Hill, which the band released for free on its [...]

Check this out — Spike TV has an awards show called The Guy’s Choice Awards, and the voting is now open. I’m mentioning this because Anderson Silva is nominated for the World’s Most Dangerous Man award. Go vote and then watch the show on June 22nd.

This may be the biggest time-waster I’ve seen in the past month.
MLB tracks all pitchers using something called PITCHf/x. If you need a primer on PITCHf/x, then you’ll probably want to read up on this, but in short it’s a system for tracking pitches much more comprehensively than they’ve ever been tracked in the past.
Josh [...]