Dry Ice Factory

Left-handed, that is.

Q: According to the Associated Press, there are currently 818 players on the rosters of Major League Baseball teams. Of those, 229 were born outside the US. Which country was the birthplace of the greatest number of foreign born players in the MLB?

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Took the day off to catch an afternoon baseball game with the co-editor of the North. I'd never done that before, and it was a lot of fun, especially after I'd gotten myself into a foul mood reading political blogs and downloading fifty dollars of software that only caused my system to freeze. It was a beautiful day at a beautiful park. Around the third inning, I got some clams and chips at Ivars and ate them on a terrace overlooking Elliott Bay, with a container ship parked in the foreground and the Olympic Mountains cutting a stencil on the horizon. Just a perfect moment of peace and emptiness in the warm sunshine.

Meanwhile the Mariners gave up three home runs and still managed to squeak out a victory with fifteen hits of their own, including four each by Ichiro and Ibanez. Far better than the blow-out we were expecting when we heard who the Mariners' starting pitcher was going to be.

A wonderful day with a friend at the baseball game. Just what the doctor ordered for a mild case of stress.