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For those of you who have family in Japan, hope everyone is ok. My wife's family emailed her to say that they are alright. The quake was pretty strong even in the Tokyo area.
The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.
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My nephew's wife and children are there in Sasebo... haven't heard anything, though he tends to be pretty closed.
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I hope that they're okay...I was seeing some live footage earlier...earthquake AND tsunami...that's just...
One year becomes two, two years becomes five, five becomes ten and before you know it, you've wasted your whole life on a problem you can't solve. That's one way to spend your life. -rwinger
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So, nephew's wife slept through the quake. Didn't hit Sasebo too hard.
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"Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons." - Michael Shermer
"Fair speech may hide a foul heart." - Samwise Gamgee LOTR
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We had trouble getting in touch with my wife's son. Cell service was down and he wasn't at home. Turns out he had to spend the night at his office because the train service was suspended in Tokyo. So everyone is ok. Still lots of aftershocks both near Sendai and near Nagano. Here's a link to a plot of intensity when the earthquake happened. http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20110311145349391-111446.html
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