It’s a beautiful mid-August day in Delaware
I still won’t come out until about mid-September though. I only know it’s nice out there because I let the dog out there.
Ok, I have to go outside to go to work from time to time. Hopefully now that summer is beginning to fade away I’ll have to get out more. With school starting again hypnosis shows will start to pick up and I am hoping that this will be a banner year…please let it be so anyway. I am making return appearances to a couple of Universities next week and a new one this coming Saturday. Generally once I get my foot in the door of some of these schools I get asked to return, and that is a good thing.
I still won’t come out until about mid-September though. I only know it’s nice out there because I let the dog out there.
Ok, I have to go outside to go to work from time to time. Hopefully now that summer is beginning to fade away I’ll have to get out more. With school starting again hypnosis shows will start to pick up and I am hoping that this will be a banner year…please let it be so anyway. I am making return appearances to a couple of Universities next week and a new one this coming Saturday. Generally once I get my foot in the door of some of these schools I get asked to return, and that is a good thing.
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| Jim Thome |
Jim Thome became the 8th player in Major League Baseball history to hit 600 career homeruns blasting the last two he needed to reach that mark last night.
He does so in an era when steroids were popular and probably helped a lot of players hit more homeruns than they would have had there not been steroids (although no one can tell me how they help ANYONE hit a 95 mph fastball.)
What has probably helped more homerun hitters than steroids, however, is the designated hitter. Thome becomes the 4th player in the 600 hr club to have DH listed as his official position on the stat sheet at MLB.com no less.
For the record the 600 hr club is as follows
Barry Bonds 762
Hank Aaron 755
Babe Ruth 714
Willie Mays 660
Ken Griffey 630
Alex Rodriguez 626
Sammy Sosa 609
What has probably helped more homerun hitters than steroids, however, is the designated hitter. Thome becomes the 4th player in the 600 hr club to have DH listed as his official position on the stat sheet at MLB.com no less.
For the record the 600 hr club is as follows
Barry Bonds 762
Hank Aaron 755
Babe Ruth 714
Willie Mays 660
Ken Griffey 630
Alex Rodriguez 626
Sammy Sosa 609
Jim Thome 600
Rodriguez, obviously, is still active.
The players listed as DH’s on there, are Aaron, Sosa, Griffey and Thome. Now we know that Aaron, Sosa and Griffey did most of their damage while playing positions but the time spent as a DH did help some of those numbers increase later in their careers.
Of the 8, Thome has the second lowest career batting average (to Sosa) but is one of three with an on-base-percentage of over 400 (Bonds, Ruth.) He has struck out the most (second only to Reggie Jackson all time now) and has the fewest stolen bases, fewest hits, fewest triples and fewest RBI (9 behind Sosa.) He does have the 3rd most walks to Bonds and Ruth and the second highest homerun per at bat percentage to Ruth.
Derek Jeter continues his climb up the milestone ladder. He now has 3039 career hits and has moved up to 22nd place all time in hits. Since getting his 3000th hit has passed Roberto Clemente, Al Kaline, Wade Boggs, Cap Anson, Rafael Palmeiro and Lou Brock. All of those except for Palmeiro are Hall of Famers. Realistically he could pass three more by the end of year needing just 22 more hits to pass Rod Carew, Rickey Henderson and Craig Biggio to vault into 19th place.
He is only 37 so if he hangs in there for a few more years he should end up in the top ten all time in hits.
Speaking of milestones, the Dungeon of Manlove show has reached the 500 mark in subscribers this week.
Now I know that isn’t a lot of subscribers but I didn’t think we would get more than 20 or so and those would be friends of the show or those on the show.
That number does not count listeners and that number is impossible to tell. The things we can tell for sure are the subscriber totals and how many countries we have reached (47.)
The podcasting craze, or fad, is continuing to heat up around the world. It does now seem like everyone is doing one. On the site which hosts our show there are now over 380,000 podcasters. That is up 20,000 from when we started our in late March. So we know that randomly finding the show and then sticking with it to listen to it enough to want to subscribe is not reasonable. This means that the people we are reaching through our social networks is producing these results…friends telling friends telling friends, etc.
The other day I asked if anyone would listen to a completely positive show if we started producing one. Of the responses that I did get, not one believed that it would work. The typical reply was, it sounds like a good idea but in reality I like listening to train-wreck material.
I will tell you what this really does tell me, though; that I should make the positive-only show anyway. Keep in mind that the DoM show isn’t negative; it’s just adult-themed. That in itself places it in that category in a lot of people’s minds though.
One note I received thought that shows that are positive in nature are usually religious shows. I sort of thought that was right.
My thought is different about what it would include. I’m not giving away any ideas about what I may do here. This is because I have a stalker now.
Yes, indeed I have a stalker although not in the true sense of the term that you just thought when you read that. Someone is out there following everything that I do and at pretty much every chance is trying to duplicate what I do. I suppose it’s just a matter of time before this person becomes a stage hypnotist and mentalist too. Oops…cross off that second one; this person “dabbled” in that once they saw what I was doing with mentalism also.
Anyway…I really got into the podcasting thing as a creative release that I had needed. I also have just not had a fantastic year as I have mentioned before. Doing my dumb show has helped keep me sane. It’s ironic that some of the craziness that has taken place on my show has helped keep me from going crazy, but it’s true nonetheless. It’s also created an offer for me, although I’m not sure where that might lead.
Have you thought about your particular expertise and how you might share it with others? Blogging like this is one way, and it’s also pretty effective. But have you had even a little urge to do something on audio? Give it a try. There is a little learning curve to overcome and some initial stage fright, maybe, but its fun. If you would like to do something drop me a line. I can help get you started with it and I’d also entertain the idea of adding anything that you might create to the marshcast.com page.
One note I received thought that shows that are positive in nature are usually religious shows. I sort of thought that was right.
My thought is different about what it would include. I’m not giving away any ideas about what I may do here. This is because I have a stalker now.
Yes, indeed I have a stalker although not in the true sense of the term that you just thought when you read that. Someone is out there following everything that I do and at pretty much every chance is trying to duplicate what I do. I suppose it’s just a matter of time before this person becomes a stage hypnotist and mentalist too. Oops…cross off that second one; this person “dabbled” in that once they saw what I was doing with mentalism also.
Anyway…I really got into the podcasting thing as a creative release that I had needed. I also have just not had a fantastic year as I have mentioned before. Doing my dumb show has helped keep me sane. It’s ironic that some of the craziness that has taken place on my show has helped keep me from going crazy, but it’s true nonetheless. It’s also created an offer for me, although I’m not sure where that might lead.
Have you thought about your particular expertise and how you might share it with others? Blogging like this is one way, and it’s also pretty effective. But have you had even a little urge to do something on audio? Give it a try. There is a little learning curve to overcome and some initial stage fright, maybe, but its fun. If you would like to do something drop me a line. I can help get you started with it and I’d also entertain the idea of adding anything that you might create to the marshcast.com page.
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