NEW YORK (AP) Don Mattingly starred in the action-packed 1980s. Now the Miami Marlins manager, Donnie Baseball worries about a record lack of hits and not just from his team’s bats. “I don’t think it’s cyclical at this point,” he said. “There’s so much swing and miss, it’s kind of off the charts. I think it’s something that we have to address.”
The Finnish Cheese That’s Baked Like Bread and Dunked in Coffee
At the Dane County Farmers Market around the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, you can find a lot of local cheese, as you can imagine. One of them is a bit of a delicious spectacle: Brunkow Cheese draws a crowd around a large vendor tent, where folks line up, toothpicks in hand, to skewer samples of an unusual Finnish variety of cheese: juustoleipa (pronounced YOO-sto-LAY-pah). The cheese-stabbing masses huddled around the Brunkow Cheese tent at the Dane County Farmers Market. (Kevin Revolinski)
This firm, half-inch-thick slab has brown spots on it from baking. The vendors cut up their “Brun-Uusto” and its flavored varieties for samples, dump the cubes on a large griddle to fry, and move them to sample trays when they’ve browned enough. Cue the cheese-stabbing masses.
“Tell me a story.”
Most of us never say these words past childhood, yet we never stop seeking out narrative threads. Indeed, we make sense of the world and one another through stories. We allow stories, whether tales from children, newly released audiobooks, or podcasts, to wash over us as we scrub the dishes or drive our daily commutes. We weave them into our mornings, afternoons, and evenings.
If you find yourself longing for story but feel overwhelmed by the number of podcasts available, expand your listening horizons with one of these series. The topics vary, the styles and formats range widely, but one idea guides each show: When we’re exposed to the stories of others, we hear echoes of our experiences. Life makes sense in those moments we detect a whisper in our earbuds, saying, “You are not alone.”
Story! Carlos Rodón frames No-Hitter; almost perfect
April 15, 2021 by archyde
The starting pitcher of the
White Sox de Chicago,
Carlos Rodon recorded his name in the history books of the
MLB during the night of Wednesday, when registering a game without receiving hits against the bats of the Cleveland Indians.
Carlos Rodon, 28, recorded during the night of Wednesday what would be the second game in the form of
No-Hitter for a pitcher of the
White Sox in the last two seasons of
MLB, after his partner Lucas Giolito left such action captured in the last campaign of the
MLB (2020). Being the aforementioned party of