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We interrupt this regularly scheduled post for awesomeness

I'm not sure how everyone else goes about their blog posting, but I try to schedule out my posts each week. If I did everything off the cuff -- although sometimes I do -- I would positively hate half of what I wrote, and there would be no blog archive for anyone to look through because I would have deleted most of what I had written. So, yes, I try to go by a schedule. Most times, that schedule runs smoothly for the first couple of days of the week and then goes off the tracks. Sometimes, I can steer the schedule back on the tracks. Sometimes, it's hopeless. The train cars are overturned and burning in a mass of flaming wreckage. Usually, my schedule is interrupted by something I read on another blog, or by something new in the hobby, or by a topic that has popped up in major league baseball. Sometimes it is interrupted by something I get in the mail. I love it when it is interrupted by something I get in the mail. Yesterday, I received a package that I had honestly h...

The A-Team, baseball style

 Several weeks ago, I found out that they were working on a movie version of "The A-Team." Movie and TV geeks have probably known about this for years -- since its scheduled release is next June -- but I'm just not that interested in movies/TV shows anymore. However, I do hold nostalgic feelings for the favorite TV shows of my youth, and "The A-Team" is definitely at the top of the list. My brothers and I were seated in front of the television in our basement "rec-room" each Tuesday for just about every episode those first couple of years it was on the air. Those of you who remember will know that "The A-Team" debuted after the Super Bowl in 1983 and was an instant hit. What wasn't there to love? Four Army outcasts who become soldiers of fortune, blast away baddies with jury-rigged weapons, bicker, and drive an awesome, beat-up van? That's prime-time gold, baby. The clincher for me is it was all done with humor. Too many action s...