New experiment: minor league hot or not

Cubs fans, is this content interesting to you?  Fans of other teams, would you want to read similar content about your team(s)?  Disclaimer, this is a work in progress, language is still a little repetitive, there are known formatting issues and we don't have cold pitchers yet.



HOT Batters:

1. Matthew Spencer - Tennessee, AA: Spencer had no problem putting the bat on the ball this week. He delivered 8 hits in 18 at bats.

2. Sam Fuld - Iowa, AAA: Fuld showed a good eye at the plate this week. He walked 4 times and collected 7 hits on the way to a 0.631578947368 on-base percentage.

3. Micah Hoffpauir - Iowa, AAA: Hoffpauir showed a good eye at the plate this week. He walked 6 times and collected 5 hits on the way to a 0.52380952381 on-base percentage.

4. Brett Jackson - Daytona, HIA: Jackson showed a good eye at the plate this week. He walked 4 times and collected 6 hits on the way to a 0.588235294118 on-base percentage.

5. Michael Brenly - Daytona, HIA: Brenly had no problem putting the bat on the ball this week. He delivered 5 hits in 11 at bats.

NOT:  

Chris Robinson - Iowa, AAA: Robinson struggled to make contact last week. He struck out 2 times while managing 0 hits and an average of 0.0 in 11 at bats.

Tony Thomas - Tennessee, AA: Thomas struggled to make contact last week. He struck out 4 times while managing 2 hits and an average of 0.125 in 16 at bats.

Nelson Perez - Daytona, HIA: Perez struggled to make contact last week. He struck out 2 times while managing 1 hit and an average of 0.0909090909091 in 11 at bats.

HOT Pitchers:

1. Robert Whitenack - Peoria, LWA: It all came together nicely for Whitenack during the past week. He allowed 3 earned runs in 5.9 innings pitched while striking out 3 and walking 2.

2. Chris Siegfried - Daytona, HIA: It all came together nicely for Siegfried during the past week. He allowed 2 earned runs in 5.2 innings pitched while striking out 2 and walking 2.

3. Christopher Carpenter - Tennessee, AA: It all came together nicely for Carpenter during the past week. He allowed 1 earned run in 6.0 innings pitched while striking out 2 and walking 2.

4. Christopher Archer - Daytona, HIA: Archer's stuff was too much for hitters to handle last week. He struck out 12 batters in 9.9 innings.

Quinoa, black beans and corn over a baked potato

Mmmmmmmm

Efficient Reading

I've been working on ways to make reading easier, faster, more informative.  Here's my current setup

instapaper - save web pages for reading later, you get a text only version and can download to kindle

www.instapaper.com

See also their site of interesting things people have bookmarked: www.longform.org

They have bookmarklets, but I just found the chrome extension for instapaper - browse to your heart's delight, skim but don't read, save the interesting stuff for a period of focused reading/research.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fldildgghjoohccppflaohodcnmlacpb

I'm not accustomed to using my kindle yet, but i think this strategy will make it a lot more useful to me...and save my laptop and phone batteries.

Not garbage?

I'm afraid to open it

Visually impaired accessible ATM

a drive up ATM with braille and audio assistance...necessary?

Pipes

The real kind, not the programmatic metaphor.

New! Blue bottle.

Be still my beating heart. Is it a new shade of blue or was it previously another color and is now blue? I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight until I find out the answer.