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MLB blog city

mattbucher — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:33:17 -0800

Torre's Stories. As part of their ever-expanding blog empire, Major League Baseball has invited Joe Torre to take up the noble habit of blogging. He joins the likes of Kevin Slowey, Bengie Molina, and Mark DeRosa as guys who apparently have time to blog between games. Also: Andre Ethier has a great blog called Dining with 'Dre about restaurants. Underperforming Jeff Francoeur has Frenchy's Forum. Injured C.J. Wilson writes Scorpion Tales. Some of these are updated more than others, but Torre is off to a great start! No RSS, but use Page2RSS as a workaround.

Lost Cosmonauts?

scodger — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:17:47 -0800

Lost cosmonauts is a site detailing the radio site at Torre Bert, set up by Italian amateurs in 1959 to monitor the beginnings of the space race. The Torre Bert station was regarded as a legitimate tracking station, however they then released recordings of dying cosmonauts which were quickly denounced as exaggerations, or outright conspiracy. In 1991 Pravda admitted that Gagarin was not the first cosmonaut . Torre Bert is a pretty rich field for conspiracy theories, for more reading try here, or here.

The Compressor Route

the painkiller — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:30:01 -0800

Cerro Torre is a magnificent, bleak shard of granite in Argentina's Parque Nacional Los Glaciares. In the Patagonian summer of early 1959, Cesare Maestri, Toni Egger, and Cesarino Fava began their attempt to be the first to climb the daunting face of Cerro Torre's northeast ridge. Halfway up the climb, at the Col of Conquest, Fava gave up and turned back, while Maestri and Egger forged on. Six days later, while packing to leave and despairing of ever seeing his friends alive again, Fava found a half-frozen Maestri wandering alone in the snow at the base of the east face. (more inside)