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Archive for June, 2006

Manager Goes Ballistic

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Wacky ManagerNow and then a baseball manager entertains the crowd by throwing a tantrum on the field arguing a call. Some classics from Lou Pinella come to mind as well as Billy Martin and Earl Weaver. But I have to say this video from Sunday is currently the best manager explosion I have ever seen. This guy lost it like no other manager that I can remember in the past decade. His name is Joe Mikulik the manager of the Colorado Rockies single-A minor league affiliate. Here is a good breakdown of this particular blowout.

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Hitting The Trails Again

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Mountain BikerI finally hit the mountain bike trails again today! I rode only a couple times last spring as I was a bit leery of the punishment of the trails after I had just fully recovered from a broken collar bone late in the previous fall. It was good to ride hard again and I realized how much I missed it last year.

I’m not a leisurely mountain biker. I ride as hard and fast as the terrain allows, to get the best workout possible. It’s not always the easiest goal to keep if the trails are busy and there is no place to pass slower riders. Today was about the most perfect weather day here. 72 and sunny, low humidity. To my surprise, there were not that many people out riding at almost 1 pm. I did better than I expected for my first ride of the season one of my normal routes on the Des Plaines River Trail. Hopefully the hot weather will be limited this summer because rides on those days can be brutal.

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Jim Porett dot com Version 2.0 Is Live!

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Welcome to jimporett dot com Version 2.0! If you are a returning visitor you will notice significant changes. I setup the site with dedicated pages for the Blog, Daily News, Links, About and Archives. This can be accessed by the new navigation bar at the top of the sidebar.

You may notice that the title header at the top of the page will change when you move to a new page or refresh the page. If you aren’t sure what I mean by this, click the “refresh’ button in your browser, or just go to a different page on the site. The image will not always change (hence truly random), however just repeat until it does. The photos in the title header are all shot by me. Right now there are only two, however I’ll add a few more to rotate in the near future.

As I mentioned before, I am using WordPress to power this site on my server. You’ll probably see some minor tweaks and changes go on every once in a while. Take a look around and let me know what you think!

UPDATE (11:15pm CST):  If you attempted to come by my site tonight it may have looked strange or had errors.  This was due to me uploading the new site.  It is now in place as appears to be stable.  The old version will hang out at jimporett.blogspot.com for a while, but will not be updated or maintained.

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