Staying Home

Harlem Taylor, a 6-foot-3, 240-pound defensive lineman, posted photos last week from his Signing Day ceremony for Dartmouth football. Taylor heads north from Concord's St. Paul's School as the rare New Hampshire product to join the Big Green. He grew up in Manchester, the largest city in the state.

Taylor was included in earlier BGA recruiting lists after choosing Dartmouth over offers from Bentley, Amherst and Colby.

Editor's Note: The official Dartmouth recruiting list has not yet been released but I'm working on getting that information along with background on each incoming player. I'll turn that around as soon as I can. In the meantime, the unofficial BGA recruiting list can be found HERE, with one change: linebacker Parker Maiers flipped to Northwestern.

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Yahoo Sports has a story headlined Aaron Judge is not the only Yankees slugger making noise in the power ranking,s and you can probably guess who that other "slugger" is. That's right, it's Dartmouth graduate Ben Rice. From the story (LINK):

According to the crew over at MLB.com, they have ranked Rice as the No. 5 power hitter in their latest power rankings.

The story notes that, "Rice owned the best wRC+ in the big leagues (193) entering Wednesday night's action."

Uh, wRC+?

In case you are wondering, MLB defines those letters as being "a stat that measures a hitter's overall offensive value compared to league average. It takes all of a hitter's contributions at the plate and translates that to his impact on runs created for his team."

Green Alert Take: I give up.

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EXTRA POINT
I'm not a computer nerd but I did take Fortran in college, I've built a few very basic websites, and I like to think I'm pretty good with my Mac. That said, I had an issue with my MacBook Air recently that I was starting to think would make me glad I bought AppleCare for the machine.

Expecting to have to bring laptop all the way down to Manchester for a checkup by one of the "Geniuses" at the Apple Store and then perhaps send it out, I wrote up a detailed explanation of the issue I was having.

On a whim, I copied and pasted that information into an AI site. Within perhaps 15 seconds, the site returned a detailed explanation of what I could try to possibly fix the issue. It took me step-by-step deep into the guts of the computer and voila, it was once again working perfectly.

AI can be pretty scary but it's hard to argue with results like that. If nothing else, it saved me a long drive to Manchester.