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The Bobs Me moving in for a Kiss with Kevin "The Jerk" much to his girlfriends disgust... L ike most of us, I had a group of friends I hung out with in grade school, junior high, and senior high school, as well as my initial attempt at college, Valparaiso University. Born a boy, that group was male although since my teens I have always had female friends as well. The members of the group changed along the way but there were always a group of guys around that I did things with. Once I hooked up with Donna and dropped out of college I never really had a regular group of male friends again. I tended to only have a friend or two at any one time. The exception was when my brother came out to California to live with me. A fter my break up with Kathy I moved out of the Sunnyvale house to my own place in Los Gatos. Pete and Frank continued to live there and they found a new roommate, Laura. Although Laura was close to Pete and Frank's age, she was a bit of a throw ba...

Softball with Leon and the Scheffleras - Part 2 Me in my Schefflera jersey B ill James is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician. He is the father of the saber-metrics revolution that subsequently took the baseball world by storm. He is well known for his Baseball Abstract books that he first published in 1977. He also served time as a senior advisor for the Boston Red Sox during the period when they finally broke “The Curse of the Bambino” and won 4 World Series Championships. He is a part of a whole sabermetric community that developed a new set of baseball statistics, commonly referred to as “analytics”, that old time baseball people and fans eschew and mock. I learned about Bill James in the early 80's and began faithfully reading his annual baseball abstracts. Today, every sports team in every sport uses analytical statistics to evaluate players. Some depend on it more than others and some do it better. However, most think of or blame the Oakland A...