August 31, 2001 – 12:01 am
RHP Brett Jodie, acquired from the Yankees in the Sterling Hitchcock deal, makes his Pads’ debut tonight against Arizona. Jodie has pitched fairly well at Portland since coming over, posting a 4.75 ERA in 30.1 IP, with 8 BB and 19 SO. He fits in well with Kevin Towers’ philosophy of grabbing guys who throw [...]
August 29, 2001 – 12:00 am
After leaving Ashland Monday morning, we headed back through the rice paddies and corn fields, through the almond, olive, and pistachio groves, through the cattle and goats, toward Fresno.
We took an unintentional excursion through the streets of North Sacramento before finding the correct I-80 (memo to city planners; don’t build two freeways with the same [...]
August 27, 2001 – 12:00 am
We didn’t win Powerball, so I guess we’ll have to go back to work when we get home. Meantime, we went on a behind-the-scenes tour of the theaters in town. Learned a little about costume and set design, lighting techniques, and other various aspects of putting on a play. Tough gig performing and producing theater. [...]
August 26, 2001 – 12:00 am
We began yesterday with a light breakfast, then walked into town to check out the bookstores and various other shops. Sandra ended up buying some comic books, while I picked up a hard-cover copy of Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare. At one of the used bookstores, I stumbled onto something written back in the early 1980s [...]
August 25, 2001 – 12:00 am
I started to write about the trip from Sacramento to Ashland but decided that would probably interest only me. So instead I’ll let you in on a little discovery I made about this here laptop. It has two USB ports. Yep, two of ‘em. I’ve owned this machine for about four years, and just today [...]
August 24, 2001 – 12:00 am
Got a late start out of San Diego, about 9 AM. Dropped the dogs off at the boarding place and headed up I-5 toward Los Angeles. Made it through LA pretty much without incident before stopping for gas and lunch at Castaic. Cheeseburger and fries: the official food of road trips.
Despite a few pockets of [...]
August 22, 2001 – 12:00 am
Mark Phillips watch: Phillips went 6-4-1-1-2-7 last night at home against San Jose. It’s only three starts, but that .145 OppBA sure is nice. Actually, over 68.1 IP across three levels this season, opponents are batting just .178 against Phillips.
I gave some bad numbers last week for Storm home/road pitching splits. For some reason I [...]
August 20, 2001 – 12:00 am
My buddy Dan was in town this weekend, and we caught the Elsinore game Saturday night. For the second time this week the Storm scored three runs in the bottom of the first. Both times those were all the runs they scored. Both times I arrived in the second inning.
This time, behind the strong left [...]
August 17, 2001 – 12:01 am
Okay, here are some pictures. I’m not the best photographer in the world but I hope you enjoy these nonetheless…
Storm catcher Tony Cosentino fires a strike during warmups
Storm pitcher Mark Phillips begins his delivery
Storm first baseman Xavier Nady takes a rip in the on-deck circle
Storm right fielder Ben Johnson waits his turn
Storm second baseman Bobby [...]
Unlikely Hitter
Not that assault is funny, but you have to at least appreciate the irony of Mike Difelice getting arrested for hitting something.