A nice Labor Day.

Last Updated on July 14, 2017 by Dave Farquhar

Yesterday was nice. I got up late, then bummed around all day. I did a couple of loads of laundry, and I put a different hard drive in my Duron-750. Then I ignored my e-mail, ignored the site for the most part, and installed Wintendo (er, Windows Me) and Baseball Mogul. Around 6 I went out and bought a CD changer. My old 25-disc Pioneer died around Christmas time and I never got around to replacing it until now.
I knew I didn’t want another Pioneer. I’ve taken that Pioneer apart to fix it before, and I wasn’t impressed with the workmanship at all. And current Pioneer models are made in China. So much for those. I looked at a Technics and a couple of Sonys. Finally, swallowing hard, I dropped $250 on a 300-disc Sony model (made in Malaysia). I still suspect it’ll be dead within five years, but maybe it’ll surprise me.

I am impressed with the sound quality. It sounds much better than my Pioneer ever did. It’s really sad when you can tell a difference in sound quality between two CD players, but I guess that just goes to show how many corners Pioneer cut on that model. Next time I go CD player shopping, I’m going to bring a disc or two along to listen to in the store so I can hear the difference.

Anyhoo, I played two seasons of Baseball Mogul and guided Boston to two world championships and a boatload of money. But something happened that made me mad. I noticed over in the AL Central, Tony Muser’s Losers, a.k.a. the Kansas City Royals, were above .500, with essentially the same team that’s looking to lose 100 games this season. Well, there was no Donnie Sadler, Muser’s secret weapon, currently batting about .137 (which also seems to be about Tony Muser’s IQ, seeing as he keeps playing the guy). So the Royals minus Muser and Sadler were a .500 club. That’s nice to know.

Then, for 2002, Kansas City went and got the biggest free-agent bat they could afford. They also didn’t trade superstar right fielder Jermaine Dye, and they re-signed shortstop Rey Sanchez. And what happened? Well, the first round of the playoffs was a Boston-Kansas City affair, that’s what. I’d used the previous year’s windfall to buy myself an All-Star team, so I rolled over Kansas City in four games. I felt kind of bad about that, but it was partly because of my record against KC’s rivals that year that they made it that far, so not too bad.

It’s all I can do to keep from e-mailing Royals GM Allaird Baird and asking him why, if Tony Muser insists on playing Donnie Sadler every day, he doesn’t consider letting the pitcher bat and have the DH hit for Sadler instead.

And shocking news. HP is buying Compaq. I didn’t believe it either. Compaq’s recent problems, after all, were partly due to its purchase of Digital Equipment Corp. and its inability to digest the huge company. The only benefit I see to this is HP getting Compaq’s service division and eliminating a competitor–Compaq’s acquisition of DEC made more sense than this does.

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5 thoughts on “A nice Labor Day.

  • September 4, 2001 at 10:46 pm
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    Maybe HP can do something productive with the carcase of Digital: it’s for sure Compaq couldn’t; but then HP is coming from the same area. Who knows, HP may even be able to use the Alpha – Compaq just tossed that crown jewel in the ditch.

  • September 5, 2001 at 9:08 am
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    I’m telling you, Tom, the Cards could have Mike Sweeney for Gene Stechschulte. You could probably even convince the Royals to throw in Mark Quinn, since Tony Loser likes to play Sadler in Quinn’s spot most of the time these days. Never mind Quinn’s batting average is literally more than twice Sadler’s… Getting on base isn’t that important, you know.

  • September 5, 2001 at 12:10 pm
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    Hey, maybe the Cards will trade ya Bud Smith for Donnie Sadler…sorry Dave, just being a smart a&&.

  • September 5, 2001 at 12:21 pm
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    Hum…maybe I’ll have to drop Walt J. a line and let him know about his options…

  • September 5, 2001 at 12:27 pm
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    Hey, maybe the Cards will trade ya Bud Smith for Donnie Sadler…sorry Dave, just being a smart a&&.

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