Serenity Now

The Humble Indie Bundle

For the cost of lunch today, you could help the future of PC gaming. Indie developers are the last great hope to push PC gaming back to the forefront of computer entertainment. While most big name companies are interested in dumbing down games, developing awful ports or infesting their games with all kinds of ridiculous DRM schemes, the PC indie scene is the exact opposite. They deserve your hard earned money. I know Bit-Blot, the creators of Aquaria, are ...

In the words of legendary Oakland radio announcer Bill King, Holy Toledo!

Dave Stewart, Bob Welch, Tim Hudson, Barry Zito, Mark Mulder, Dan Haren, Ken Holtzman, and Vida Blue were some of the best pitchers to wear an Oakland Athletics uniform, but none of them can claim perfection. Today in front 12,228 fans at the Oakland Coliseum, Dallas Braden, with a career record of 17-23, cemented himself in Major League Baseball history ...

From a pitcher who could strikeout a batter blindfolded, to batter who would could not be struck out even when blindfolded, here is Joe Sewell.




QUICK CAREER NUMBERS

Years: 14
Games Played: 1,903
At Bats: 7,132
Avg: .312
Hits: 2,226
Runs: 1,141
Strikeouts: 114
Walks: 842
RBI: 1,055
OBP: .391
Total Bases: 2,945


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Once every few days I will be spotlighting a member of the baseball Hall of Fame. To start things off, it is The Ryan Express.




QUICK CAREER NUMBERS

Years: 27
Games Started: 773
Wins: 324
Losses: 292
K's: 5,714
Walks: 2,795
IP: 5,386
ERA: 3.19
Shutouts: 61
Complete Games: 22






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With the decade now a thing of the past, I thought it would be nice to look back at the last 10 years in PC gaming. The listing is not numbered simply because there would be no way to rank one game over another in a fair and impartial manner. You could debate this topic for the next ten decades and still not have a decisive winner. Deus Ex over Half Life 2? KOTOR over Oblivion? It is all in the eye of the beholder. Of course, there will be those who cry foul about their favorite game not being ...