"The El Paso Chihuahuas is the newest Triple-A Baseball team in the country and will compete in El Paso's new downtown ballpark as the Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres starting in the Spring of 2014."
Select Quote: Why the El Paso Chihuahuas? For starters, El Paso is located in the Chihuahuan desert. El Paso is a border town. Their sister city in Mexico is Juarez. With a fan base that will include a large cross-section of Mexican-Americans, new Mexican immigrants, and citizens of Mexico, the name had to work in both Spanish and English. We also love it for the story it tells. It's a story unique to the Minor League Baseball brand of entertainment. With teams names like the Toledo Mudhens and the Richmond Flying Squirrels, it's the story of the mascot that seemingly isn't the toughest species on the block, scrapping for the respect it deserves. It's the story of the Minor League players, fighting to earn their spot in the Big Leagues. It's the story of America, the little guy pulling up their bootstraps and making something of themselves — ordinary people doing extraordinary things. And most importantly it's the story of El Paso, a town, that for too long, hasen't got the respect that it deserves. It's a really cool town and one that is scrapping for the respect that it deserves. Just like our scrappy Chihuahua!
The Boston Red Sox are a little more than three innings away from winning the World Series behind relentless hitting and an admirable pitching performance from John Lackey.
The St. Louis Cardinals also aren't really helping themselves, as evidenced by a couple of botched plays in the bottom of the fifth. Second baseman Matt Carpenter bobbled a grounder off the bat of Jacoby Ellsbury, giving the Sox a two-out baserunner when the Cards could have been out of the inning.
Reliever Kevin Siegrist picked up Carpenter a few pitches later when he appeared to pick off Ellsbury. However, the speedy Boston outfielder escaped a rundown to continue the inning:
Siegrist eventually got Dustin Pedroia to fly out to end the inning. Lots of laughs, but no damage.
Action packed TV series like Breaking Bad draw huge audiences around the world, but in Norway’s recent TV hits nothing much happens. They include a 134-hour live programme following a cruise ship up Norway’s coast.
In the 1970s and 1980s, they documented the grimy, graffiti-covered subways where vigilante Guardian Angels squared off against thugs. Today, they snap mint-new cars with automated messages and light-up signs. Taken together, their thousands of photographs are an homage to New York’s subway system.
fuck yeah Fun Club NoA's PR game in the 80s was fantastic
When Noah Hoffman (then 13) of Bellevue, Washington, “wielded a magic sword” and “let fly a silver arrow” to become the first officially-recognized “Ganon beater”, he wouldn’t have known any of that. He also didn’t know, when he restored peace to Hyrule, that he would go down in history as the first American to beat perhaps the most famous video game ever made.
New revelations that NSA had broken into Google and Yahoo datacenters have led to a fresh line of questioning for NSA chief Keith Alexander, but the horrifically drawn leaked document to end all horrifically drawn documents (at least, as far as we know) has appropriately riled creative internet users.
The National Security Agency spied on cardinals as they prepared to select the new pope — perhaps including even Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, who emerged from last spring’s conclave as Pope Francis.
This is a brown pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis. See how that looks? See how it doesn't look like a murderous, syphilitic version of the Cluck-U-Chicken mascot? Well, here is the New Orleans Pelicans' new mascot:
MOST superheroes fight crime. Florida Man, whose Twitter feed identifies him as “the world’s worst superhero”, commits them. Some are petty (“Florida Man Seen Shoving Snake Down His Pants in Orlando Pet Store”). Some are violent (“Florida Man Aims Semi-Automatic Rifle at Snake, Shoots Urinating Friend”). Some are rude (“Florida Man Caught Showering Naked with a Garden Hose on High School Campus, Blames Mexicans”). Sometimes Florida Man finds love (“Florida Man Comes to the Aid of Drunk Woman Who Fell off Park Bench, Public Sex Ensues”).
Most superheroes are fictional. Florida Man is real, sort of: it is the pseudonym under which one or more people tweet links to stories of strange crimes committed in the Sunshine State and reported by local media.
Florida is not America’s most criminal state, but the offences Floridians commit are often weird. A year-long analysis of Associated Press “strange news” stories found that Florida generated more of them, by far, than any other state (examples: “Man wearing sleeping bag as cape attempts robbery”; “Florida...Continue reading
He also likes America. So a friend made him special shoes for Game 6:
Don't listen to Nike or whatever other company saying shoes improve your game. Shane Victorino is playing in one of the most important baseball games of his life with damn non-brand Stars and Stripes Eagle cleats.
Hockey players lose teeth. It's simply part of the job and one of the hazards that come with playing the game for a living. Over the past couple of years however we've seen a lot more examples of players having to actually pull their own teeth on the bench. Maybe we're looking for it. Maybe it's the additional cameras in the arena. Either way, we seem to catch it more than we used to as it happens.
Stephen Drew, who entered the game 4-for-51 at the plate in the 2013 postseason, homered off of Cards starter Michael Wacha to extend Boston's advantage to 4-0. Jacoby Ellsbury doubled two batters later, and after Wacha intentionally walked David Ortiz for the second time, the rookie was pulled in favor of Lance Lynn.
Things didn't go much better for Lynn. He allowed an RBI hit to Mike Napoli before loading the bases with a walk to Jonny Gomes. That resulted in another bases-loaded at-bat for Shane Victorino, who smacked a run-scoring single to record his fourth RBI in the game. Getting hits with the bags juiced is nothing new for the Red Sox outfielder. He has driven in more runs in that situation than any other player in MLB history, per the team.
Lynn was replaced after Victorino's hit by Seth Maness, who struck out Xander Bogaerts to end the inning.
Three years after well blowout, declining seafood catches and deformities point to an environment in distress.Three years after well blowout, declining seafood catches and deformities point to an environment in distress.
As an aside, this is why I no longer watch Top Gear (the real one). It was Clarkson’s justification and defense of BP that was the last straw. Any entertainment value was overwhelmed by the propaganda he was spewing.
How did this happen? In Norway, there is a bizarre rock formation known as Kjeragbolten, which is a huge block of stone that has become lodged in a 984-meter-deep crevice over a gorgeous lake. It's so sturdy that sheep like to stand on it — and so do humans.
An anonymous reader writes in with neat project the Microsoft is working on to translate sign language with a Kinect. "Microsoft Research is now using the Kinect to bridge the gap between folks who don't speak the same language, whether they can hear or not. The Kinect Sign Language Translator is a research prototype that can translate sign language into spoken language and vice versa. The best part? It does it all in real time."
'Like the PS3 before it, you’ll be able to boot the PS4 to a “safe mode” by holding down the power button for seven seconds. This will allow users to install firmware updates from a USB memory stick, but Sony warns that “Users should only update using official files downloaded from PlayStation.com.“ How long do you think it will be before hackers try to use this safe mode installation to their own advantage?'
By our count, the massive Ultimate FAQ that Sony posted today regarding the PS4 answers 191 questions about the system, ranging from the essential (“When does PS4 come out in different countries and regions?”) to the trivial (“Does PS4’s graphical user interface have a name like the PS3 system’s ‘Cross Media Bar’?”).
You can read through the whole thing yourself, but you’ll end up wasting a lot of time on things that are obvious, already well-known, or simply inessential marketing speak. To help save you the trouble, here is our list of 17 good, bad, and ugly things we learned from the FAQ. While not all of these items are strictly new information, they are all important or interesting, and they're presented here to counteract the slow drip of information Sony has been putting out for months now.
The good
You can be logged in to two PS4 systems at once
As long as one of the systems is the “primary” system for a given PSN account, you can simultaneously log in on another PS4 without kicking out the first user. This will give you access to all the same games, cloud saves, and any other information from the second system—no fuss, no muss. This is potentially a killer feature for multi-system homes.
