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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Rick Ankiel

Rick Ankiel is a professional baseball player, currently unemployed (a free agent, if you will).   Rick also has a rather unique story among MLB players. 
 He was a pitcher, selected in the second round of the 1997 MLB draft by the St Louis Cardinals. In his first full season, 2000, he came in 2nd in NL Rookie of the Year voting and had 9.98 strikeouts and allowed 7.05 hits per 9 innings.  In the postseason of that year, however, Rick started to have trouble controlling his pitches.  The next season, his troubles continued and he was demoted from the Majors.  After missing 2002 with injury, he played in the minor leagues in 2003 before another injury.  In 2005, he announced that he was going to become an outfielder (local side note:  his wikipedia page has a pic of him in 2005 playing in the Quad Cities).   He tried out with the Cardinals in 2006, hoping to make it back to the major league, but was sidelined by another injury.  After beginning 2007 back in the minors, he got called up to St Louis in Aug of 2007, where he played through the 2009 season, somewhat successfully.

Over the past 4 seasons he has played for 5 different teams (he was in Washington for '11/'12 and on two different teams in each '10 and '13) as his production has diminished, leading to his current status.

His career stats are here, and someone on youtube did us the favor of this career summary:

http://youtu.be/JN_wWvRjoAA

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Ricketts Family

The members of the Ricketts family are the owners of the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball since 2009.

Tom Ricketts and his siblings, Pete, Laura and Todd grew up in Omaha, NE in the 60s where his father Joe founded TD Ameritrade.   Tom Ricketts is the director of the company at present, and the family's wealth is estimated in the range of $1 billion.

If you're interested in meeting the Ricketts family, the Chicago Tribune is here to serve.
http://youtu.be/GK7a6O8-2FA

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Katie Couric

Finally we've gotten back to another female for the blog.  Katie Couric.  She's not just an obscure reference like a few of the Ricks I've pulled out; everyone knows who she is.   Katie has worked for NBC (on the Today show), CBS (CBS Evening News) and ABC (ABC News and daytime show Katie). 

 She also notably got the first interview on TV with Manti Te'o after the world found out he had a fake girlfriend (what ever happened with that?  We all got bored with that pretty quickly.)



If you're in the mood for something a little shorter and more interesting, here's Katie with Howard Stern.

http://youtu.be/Mqj9mzhaMVg

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Don Rickles

If you're not watching Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee series, you should be.  It's Jerry and various other comedians just hanging out and chatting.

Recently, the episode featured our friend Don Rickles: