Tag Archive for ‘The Netherlands’
Online Overkill – week of March 8
Good, bad, annoying or indifferent, these are the stories that got the most play or not enough in my blog reader this week. The coming evangelical collapse. As much as I enjoy Michael Spencer’s Internet Monk blog, I thought he went a little thick with the sensationalism on his evangelical collapse posts back in January. […]
Buster Douglas of baseball
The World Baseball Classic arrived Tuesday night. Baseball became a truly global game when the Netherlands, the international baseball version of Buster Douglas, the 1980 U.S. hockey team and the Milan Indians rolled into one, put the tournament on the map by upsetting the heavily favored, star-studded Dominican Republic team, 2-1. Talk about shocking the […]
WBC Magic
WOW. Who said lightning doesn’t strike twice? As a diehard Cubs fan, I hate that Carlos Marmol was the guy to blow it, but I’m officially sold on the World Baseball Classic now thanks to those crazy underdogs from The Netherlands. Incredible.