<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:TToI="http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/rss/"><channel><language>en-us</language><title>The Tools of Ignorance: Latest Posts</title><description>Latest Posts</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com</link><item><title>I've come close a few times...</title><description>But, finally, in a game against my alter ego, the Ann Arbor Tree Huggers, Greg Goossen (originally of the Seattle Pilots), who I've batted in pretty much every spot in the lineup, as he seems prone to pronounced hot streaks and extended slumps, managed t</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=190#P841</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:37:15 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=190#P841</guid></item><item><title>This is getting difficult</title><description>yea but its a nice problem </description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=189#P840</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:04:52 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=189#P840</guid></item><item><title>This is getting difficult</title><description>The past three players picked up by the Loserings:

• Derek Jeter
• Sam Crawford
• Yogi Berra

Not one of them fit my roster.

(...and yet Whiskeytown has been suffering through its most prolonged slump in team history)

*</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=189#P839</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:12:31 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=189#P839</guid></item><item><title>2.0 Survey</title><description>Firefox, and I'm currently on 1280x1024.</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P838</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:13:50 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P838</guid></item><item><title>2.0 Survey</title><description>firefox, don't know resolution</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P837</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:10:45 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P837</guid></item><item><title>2.0 Survey</title><description>firefox 1024 x 768  </description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P836</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:08:15 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P836</guid></item><item><title>2.0 Survey</title><description>Firefox - about 1000x800 (I keep it as a window and don't go full screen)</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P835</link><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:51:52 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P835</guid></item><item><title>2.0 Survey</title><description>firefox don't know resolution </description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P834</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:15:16 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P834</guid></item><item><title>2.0 Survey</title><description>Home: Firefox / 1680x1050
Work: Safari / I think the same res.
(and I just seem to use Safari because it's always been set as the default browser, but I also have Firefox there)

*</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P833</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:17:33 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P833</guid></item><item><title>2.0 Survey</title><description>Barnstorming 2.0 is still under development but a few issues have arisen so I wanted to get everyone's input on a couple of things,

I would like to make the site wider that it's current incarnation and I would also like to drop IE6 support.  So basica</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P832</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:43:14 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=188#P832</guid></item><item><title>Barnstorming Updates</title><description>not sure if this is update related, but something weird happened over the last 24 hours.  i had acquired 1991 Kevin Tapani as a free agent replacing Yoshii.  i put him in to my rotation & shuffled the order.  when i logged on tonight, Yoshii is back on m</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=187#P831</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 01:15:35 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=187#P831</guid></item><item><title>Barnstorming Updates</title><description>looking forward to it!</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=187#P830</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:02:01 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=187#P830</guid></item><item><title>Barnstorming Updates</title><description>Earlier, I promised updates to Barnstorming and I just wanted to let everyone know that the updates are still coming.  They are behind schedule but they will be coming as soon as I can get them finished and tested.

franco</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=187#P829</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:57:53 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=187#P829</guid></item><item><title>154/162 Game Mark</title><description>Roy Smith is now the proud owner of a 1-16 record.  17th time was the charm:

http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/games/barnstorm/eventlog.php?id=14444&type=barn

Thank you, Kevin Kobel.  Went and looked him up... In the year in question (1979), he ha</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=165#P828</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:28:06 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=165#P828</guid></item><item><title>154/162 Game Mark</title><description>i'd leave Smith in for a while.  he's obviously had worse luck than Stewart.</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=165#P827</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:39:21 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=165#P827</guid></item><item><title>154/162 Game Mark</title><description>Not a 162-game total, but I've got an eye on 1989 Roy Smith, SP for the Twins that year...  He's been in the rotation a while for the Ann Arbor Tree Huggers, and he was merely a middling-type starting pitcher in real life that year...  Still, he's had 15</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=165#P826</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:04:33 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=165#P826</guid></item><item><title>Barnstorming No-Hitters?</title><description>After leading the league in pitching for most of the league's existence, Whiskeytown finally got its first no-hitter today when Ed Poole blanked the Myrtle Beach Balls 2-0. Poole walked two batters in the 2nd inning but retired every other hitter he face</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=131#P825</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:30:26 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=131#P825</guid></item><item><title>Gagne to Red Sox</title><description>LOOKING FOR BASEBALL TALENT 781 891 0621   WWW.HENRYSBASEBALLCLUB.COM    LET ALL KNOW!!!!</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=89#P824</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:16:03 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=89#P824</guid></item><item><title>LOOKING FOR BASEBALL TALENT,GET PAID TO PLAY BASEBALL!</title><description>WWW.HENRYSBASEBALLCLUB.COM  781 891 0621 AGES 16 TO 25 ONLY. LIST OF 1,300 PRO SCOUTS 40 MORE WITH THE MAJOR LEAGUE SCOUTING BUREAU. LIST OF ALL THE TRYOUT DATES AROUND THE NATION, LOCATIONS,TIME TO BE THERE, AND WHO OR WHAT CLUB IS HOLDING THE TRYOUT.  </description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=186#P823</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:11:03 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=186#P823</guid></item><item><title>Worst Free Agent Ever!</title><description>that's gotta be top 3 all time </description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=156#P822</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:04:50 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=156#P822</guid></item><item><title>Worst Free Agent Ever!</title><description>1977 Ramon Aviles

1 Game
1 SH

That's it.  Not even a single at-bat.</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=156#P821</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:09:50 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=156#P821</guid></item><item><title>Barnstorming No-Hitters?</title><description>Doc McJames  just threw one against Glen Park Polydactyl Cats he walked 1 in the 1st and hit a guy in the 9th</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=131#P820</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:14:38 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=131#P820</guid></item><item><title>Fresh start for 2009?</title><description>I was just thinking a little bit about the "season" format.  This would require a signup date, but couldn't you create a schedule of games to be played as a season and use the barnstorming format as a way to improve your team and grow a fan base?  You co</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=185#P819</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:36:55 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=185#P819</guid></item><item><title>Fresh start for 2009?</title><description>I hadn't noticed this discussion at all...  I tend to agree with the others...  If there's a v2.0 that's right around the corner, why bother.  Besides, I think a "reset" that occurs coincidentally to either Spring Training and/or Opening Day makes more s</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=185#P818</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:47:25 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=185#P818</guid></item><item><title>Fresh start for 2009?</title><description>Just to add my 2 cents..
I have a couple different teams in the current barnstorm game and would love to see it reset with a new season.  I am getting to the point where my teams are not changing much - only about 1 in 20 FA's (and that's probably too h</description><link>http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=185#P817</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:49:04 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.thetoolsofignorance.com/forums/posts.php?topicid=185#P817</guid></item></channel></rss>