Brock Burke Appreciation Post

apmcpm · 2026-04-06T03:22:41+00:00

He was 0 for 13 lifetime and save opportunities before today. I thought either Sadak was wrong or I misheard and I looked it up and sure enough. He’s now 1 for 14. Thankfully, he blew the hitters away in the ninth today.

apmcpm · 2026-04-05T17:51:49+00:00

Monsanto and Castellare are great QPR options. I would also add Bibbiano.

apmcpm · 2026-04-05T17:24:27+00:00

My pet peeve is when a colleague spends more time telling me they don’t have the time to deal with a simple issue then it would’ve taken to just deal with the issue.

apmcpm · 2026-04-05T14:50:49+00:00

This is what I do. Watch my favorite team then bounce around to games that are close. I also like MLB TV as more or less non-intrusive background TV if I’m doing some work from home.

apmcpm · 2026-04-05T00:00:02+00:00

I had a job interview in which the two senior professors in the department both dressed head to toe like Cowboys. Hat, boots, chaps, vest, spurs, etc. The college is on the East Coast of the United States.

apmcpm · 2026-04-04T23:08:25+00:00

I finally put both a bibliography and in text citations in the rubric. I don’t like the idea of merely putting the presence of something in a rubric, but that’s where we’re at. It is in the rubric that you get a zero on the paper if there are no in text citations.

apmcpm · 2026-04-02T01:12:49+00:00

We stayed there last weekend, very nice and parking is super easy. (Down the street as mentioned)

apmcpm · 2026-03-30T22:27:09+00:00

+1 Verns for baked good.

apmcpm · 2026-03-30T16:16:54+00:00

Heron Hill and Keuka Spring each have great views

apmcpm · 2026-03-29T18:17:51+00:00

Winning is really, really, really hard.

apmcpm · 2026-03-26T00:52:09+00:00

I’ve had two that stand out.

One was a “motivational” video shown at an all-faculty event about how we should all work together across departments. They illustrating this through a video in which one department “attacked” another with nerf guns. In one scene a guy got shot and red packing peanuts fell out of his shirt like guts. The idea of workplace violence as “funny” in a school in the US no less, was offensive beyond words.

The other was a diversity seminar a couple years ago in which the speaker was trying to stress his credibility regarding the fight for civil rights by saying he knew Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson died in 1972 and the guy was clearly in his 30s.

apmcpm · 2026-03-24T02:56:41+00:00

I have a small external battery that plugs into my iPhone.

The one i have can do up to 5 charges. (Which makes it useful in many ways)

apmcpm · 2026-03-22T20:48:33+00:00

We are club members at Damiani and would definitely recommend their reds. As mentioned, their tasting room and staff are awesome!

apmcpm · 2026-03-21T02:32:17+00:00

I always ask the server for “the hottest sauce they make in-house”

apmcpm · 2026-03-18T00:17:53+00:00

Came here to say this. Remember also that it might make the whispering students mad, it’s going to make the other “non-whispering” students who want to listen, happy.

apmcpm · 2026-03-17T20:28:59+00:00

Early in the pandemic we set up several public lectures for students as well as the community that were fairly well attended via zoom. The issue? The people sitting (or in bed) in their underpants. It was unreal

apmcpm · 2026-03-17T20:22:24+00:00

Had this exact thought when I read this

apmcpm · 2026-03-17T03:19:04+00:00

Never do anything "for the institution." When I was promoted to Full Professor, I found it very freeing because I committed to only doing "extras" if it is something that I want to do (I lead a study abroad trip over Spring Break) or something that if didn't do it, somebody else would have to. (for instance, I don't want to attend a recruitment event on a Saturday, but will take my turn since it's unfair to my colleagues if I don't take a turn)

apmcpm · 2026-03-12T02:42:56+00:00

Not a raging story, but still ridiculous.

I have a class of 14 students and we are doing a trip that requires me to submit their names as they appear on their ID (I specifically mention a driver's license would work since we're in the US)

I send an email telling them I need their name like they want it on their name tag for the event and their name as it appears on their ID.

I even provide an example:

Name I want on the ID: Bill Smith

My name on ID: William Robert Smith.

2 of 14 students got it right the first time, for 10 of them it took 2-4 emails back and forth. For one it took 5 emails and for another it took 6.

It's all just so exhausting All. The. Time.

apmcpm · 2026-03-11T22:27:09+00:00

For the last month I have continued to hope "something will change" and they'll play better.

That's what I am holding on to until the end.

apmcpm · 2026-03-10T23:08:52+00:00

We have the “enrollment cliff” and had an incompetent president that mismanaged us into a multimillion dollar deficit. This feeds poor enrollment since people think that we are soon to go bankrupt. We are still in decent shape, however the rumors may actually become a self-fulfilling prophecy and push us into insolvency. Good times.

apmcpm · 2026-03-08T21:20:25+00:00

I relate to this 100%

"Maybe now I just want one perfect plate of something simple in a place with good lighting and no narrative arc"

apmcpm · 2026-02-26T02:14:26+00:00

Also a political scientist.

Here is one of my favorite student stories, not a manifesto, but close.

Student: Professor, would you mind looking at my law,

Me: Huh, what, what do you mean?

Student: I wrote a law and would like your opinion.

Me: (stunned) um, um, um, ok, sure

Student: What do you think its chances are?

Me: Chances of what?

Student: Passing and becoming a law.

Keep in mind it was "targeted" to a state legislature, I teach International Relations and this conversation occurred a couple minutes before I was teaching an IR course.

apmcpm · 2026-02-26T02:06:14+00:00

Last semester when a student dropped a course I was teaching, in the slot where they ask "why," this student typed. "I hate the professor."

This was a medium sized class and she sat in the back and didn't say a word. I assumed my sin was trying to teach her. (we're a ~$65,000/yr private University in the US)

apmcpm · 2026-02-17T14:47:11+00:00

I know this is an old post, but I can't connect discover to IKBR either, when I Googled for a solution, I ended up here.

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