I’m With You: More Info on the RHCP New Album

Working title, Dr Johnny Skinz’s Disproportionately Rambunctious Polar Express Machine-head, is out, and a more marketable album title along with the track listing has been released. The Red Hot Chili Peppers new album will be entitled I’m With You, and will hit shelves on August 30th. The album’s first single, “The Adventures of Rain Dance … Continue reading →

Fair To Midland – Featured Band

Yes, so perhaps “Band of the Week” has been discontinued, but at least we could still call this “Band of the Indefinite Time Period” if we wanted.  Anyway, I’ll cut to the chase.  I’m just now getting into a band I’ve known about for a while but only based on one song. That band is … Continue reading →

The Great Restrainers: Brian and Calvin Coolidge

I’d always thought Brian Cashman was a terrible GM. That is until recently, when I realized that ownership was overriding him on a lot of the decisions I didn’t like. Cashman made it obvious he didn’t want to sign Rafael Soriano this offseason and when the expensive signing happened, everyone knew Hank Steinbrenner overrode his … Continue reading →

Moneyball: Just Beautifully Applied Market Research

A fellow student in my Master of Marketing Research program told me that the book Moneyball was one of the factors that sparked his interest in marketing research. I just finished the book and enjoyed it thoroughly–as both a baseball fan and a (soon-to-be) marketing researcher. Without getting into the nitty-gritty of the statistics, the … Continue reading →

Tunes of the Moment

I’m not gonna go into much detail here; the title should serve as a sufficient means to make at least a halfway-decent inference about the subject matter of this post (there was probably a much shorter way of saying that but I was being deliberately verbose for no other purposes than self-amusement). Check out these … Continue reading →

NHL’s Time to Shine?

Great post about Kevin Gregg and David Ortiz. Ortiz is such a hypocritical punk. And Gregg might now be my favorite non-Yankee reliever (the fact that he’s on my fantasy team also makes it easier to root for him). Anyway, continuing in the sports realm, how interesting is it that there exists the possibility of … Continue reading →

Kevin Gregg, An American Hero

Dear Mr. Gregg, Thank you! Thank you for standing up to a man that took steroids and charmed the media into overlooking his transgression. Thank you for standing up for the game of baseball, and calling out a DH who doesn’t have the energy to run out a fly ball after chilling in the dugout … Continue reading →