https://northsidebaseball.com/blogs/entry/87-wanna-see-how-a-baseball-is-made/I was reminded from a side conversation that baseballs are a mostly manual manufacturing process. There is some automation in the making of the pill in the middle, and the twirling of the layers of string and yarn and stuff, but the 108 stitches are done by hand and it looks tedious. Anyway, just a...87Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:25:06 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/blogs/entry/80-a-cubs-parody-recorded/Hey everyone, so I recently wrote a parody which probably could use some improvement, but I also wanted to see if I could do some fun stuff in Audacity to record it. Please forgive my terrible singing voice (it hasn't been the same since I had a bad cold a decade or so ago, but before then I rocked...80Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:47:34 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/blogs/entry/66-world-series-dreaming/Hi everyone, I'm a bit unemployed still at the moment, but Brock said I should probably share our little hobby podcast that I did when we still had the World Series Dreaming blog active. Right now the Podbean for our Dreamcast is still active and you can skim through the archives over the year...66Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:38:22 +0000https://northsidebaseball.com/blogs/entry/64-no-dogs-allowed/I got to hang out with my dog a bit today (much to his chagrin) because the wife and kid went to Christkindlmarket at Daley Plaza, and puppy needed a human to be with him. As we walked around the neighborhood, I reflected to how I haven't been back to Wrigley Field since before the pandemic, though...64Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:46:46 +0000