"Derek Zumsteg should be ashamed to have such comprehensive knowledge of the history of cheating in baseball. Pete Rose gave me two to one odds this book would become a classic." -- Allen Barra, author of The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant
"Derek Zumsteg should be ashamed to have such comprehensive knowledge of the history of cheating in baseball. Pete Rose gave me two to one odds this book would become a classic." -- Allen Barra, author of The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant
Time to hand out some hardware.
The Mike Hargrove Memorial Award for Aggressive Baserunning:
Jose Lopez, for getting thrown out at third
The Feigned Deafness Award for Ignoring Coaching Philosophy:
Eric O’Flaherty, for use of non-fastball pitches to dominate
The Turbo Giddy-yup Award for Excellence in GIDP:
Jose Vidro
Safeco Field Scorer Charity Hit of the Day to:
Jose Lopez
John Shulock Memorial [...]
One win down, 90ish to go.
Bedard struggled, the offense got themselves out a lot, the baserunning was bad… and the team still won fairly easily. Green and O’Flaherty were tremendous - EOF in particular looked outstanding throwing nasty breaking balls and getting whiffs.
Toss in the Angels losing and it’s a [...]
Let’s stay calm, okay, let’s not lose our heads. It’s-it’s-it’s-it’s a fine ID, it’ll-it’s gonna work, it’s passable, okay, this isn’t terrible. It’s up to you, Fogel. This guy’s either going to think here’s another guy with a fake ID, or here’s McLovin, the 25-year-old Hawaiian organ donor. — Superbad
My thoughts on the team, [...]
I’ve got two radio spots today - the regular 2:20 gig (actually around 2:35 today) on KJR with the Groz, and then at 4:30 (yes, during the game) on KJRB out of Spokane with Sean Widmer.
Ahh, opening day - good times.
I’m still sick, so there’s been little to do but sit around and write a couple thousand words about the M’s as they go into Opening Day. Please do note there’s a lovely post by Dave under this one.
Starting rotation
SP-L Erik Bedard
SP-R Felix Hernandez
SP-R Carlos Silva
SP-L Jarrod Washburn
SP-R Miguel Batista
I’ve heard that this is going [...]
The Phillies are trying to sneak him through waivers. This nice article has details.. Long live the Cult of Doyle. ht to msb for the link.
I believe that King Felix is going to throw a no hitter this year.
I believe that I’m going to give Erik Bedard a standing ovation in my room before June ends.
I believe that Tampa Bay might be the fifth best team in the American League.
I believe that pitchers should cry themselves to sleep the [...]
Starting now. Let me know if anything’s wonky.
Update: Site upgraded, fixing plugins
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Unresolved: why does it keep trying to get me to download post.php when I update this? That’s really annoying.
Random note: our USSM server, funded ages ago with generous reader donations, has been up continuously for 323 days without requiring [...]
Though I wonder if it’s quite as they said. According to the broadcast, Baek, RRS make the staff, Morse, Jimerson get to be bench players. Which makes the bench five deep:
C-R Burke, WFB-R Bloomquist, UT-R Cairo, PH-R Morse, OF-R Jimerson
Norton goes to the minors.
Leaving six to go the bullpen, except then… how?
RP-R Putz leaves you [...]
Against the Cubbies! Again! FSN! In a couple of minutes! If there are any regulars in after the 4th inning, I understand they’ll be giving free beers to everyone in attendance.
