IGD: Padres vs Giants (9 Apr 07)
first pitch: 7:05 p.m. PT
television: Channel 4SD
matchup: Chris Young (0-0, 4.76 ERA) vs Matt Cain (0-0, 4.50 ERA)
previews: Padres.com | SI.com
Chris Young graduated from Princeton University. According to the delightful and sometimes accurate Wikipedia, here are some other famous Princeton grads:
- Moe Berg – baseball player and spy (one of the most fascinating characters ever to play the game)
- Jeff Bezos – founder of Amazon.com
- Bill Bradley – former basketball star, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, former U.S. Senator
- Aaron Burr – 3rd Vice President of the United States (and answer to milk commercial trivia question)
- Dean Cain – actor
- Ethan Coen – director
- David Duchovny – actor
- Richard Feynman – Nobel laureate (Physics 1965)
- Steve Forbes – son of Malcolm Forbes (also a Princeton grad), businessman and publisher of Forbes magazine
- Stanley Jordan – jazz guitarist (and an insanely talented one at that — I know you think you’re sick of the song, but check out his version of “Stairway to Heaven” if you want your mind blown)
- James Madison, 4th President of the United States
- W.S. Merwin – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator
- Queen Noor of Jordan – Her Majesty Queen of Jordan
- Syngman Rhee – 1st president of the Republic of Korea
- Brooke Shields – model/actress
- Jimmy Stewart – actor
- George F. Will – Pulitzer Prize-winning writer
- Woodrow Wilson – 28th President of the United States
Sometimes you get insight here at Ducksnorts; other times, you get whatever the heck this is. Go Padres!
Out of curiosity, has everyone who comments here read Weaver on Strategy?
A good nickname opens doors…
Bud Black on the 1090 pregame show a few minutes ago: “We feel very strongly about Kouz.”
To which he might then have added: “”Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean, know what I mean, say no more, say no more!”
Or Jerry could have replied: “Yes, and even at my age!”
1: No, I haven’t. Have always heard that it’s a must read. Unfortunately, there are a lot of those.
3: It’s also a pretty quick read (under 200 pages).
Dont bring that weak stuff in here Doc!
I think you call that being VERY careful w/ Mr. Barry
I like CY throwing over to first a bunch of times. Maybe Bonds will tweak a hammy or something while scampering back those three feet.
Whoa. NOG taking a strike. Don’t see that every day.
That was a nifty play by NOG to end the last inning though
re: 1
I read it and enjoyed it and gave it to a baseball coach I was assisting at the time.
yes…very nice play by NOG. Also can’t say how happy I am again to have the Channel 4 broadcast on my mlb package on directv…
not sure Barfield would have gotten to that one in the hole
I thought the Giants were one of the few teams that still didn’t put the players names on the back of the Jersey. Is this a new thing this year or am I a retard?
I think the Giants have been doing that for a few years now..
13 – don’t know, but don’t overlook the possibility of “both”
is that Gwynn in the box with the Channel 4 team tonight?
yes it is…
Yeah, maybe Ch. 4 is on board more now than last season. I rarely got Ch. 4 on DirecTV or MLBtv. But I would like to get Scully for the Dodgers series.
Is something wrong with Sledge, or are they just riding Cruz while he’s hot? (Cruz is starting in left again.)
Good AB by Bard.
15 – Hey brother, stop messing with the Boston contingency! It’s three hours later here!!!
And 30 degrees cooler, at least in D.C.
18 – I totally agree. Scully is by far and away the best broadcast of the year. I totally hope that we don’t get the padres broadcast for that series…
Feel free to walk another one, dude.
19 – either way, it’s Crudge-time baby
Mudcat called Righetti the “Big Ragu.” Nice.
Would like to see KG make Cain throw two strikes here before swinging.. .then go Oppo!
I watched just about every game last year and the Padres feed was never shown on directv. I bought the mlb.com package just to be able to listen to the Padres announcers.
Dammit. What is our aversion to scoring runs?!?!?!
that wasn’t “oppo”… crapburgers!
Fine. At least we brought the pitch count up. I’m sick of these 3 pitch innings we keep giving mediocre starters.
27: I totally agree, except in the case of Vin Scully. I mean, the guys a one man show.. He’s got a drum between his knees, a tamborine on his shoe, and a triangle dangling from his ear…
How about the ducksnorts ad during the game….
OMG!!!!! Matty just mentioned Geoff’s book
Ducksnorts shout out on Channel 4! Excellent.
HOLY LORD!!!!
GO GEOFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel so proud to be a part of the little group here right now..
All right, GY! That was great! Even the Book was touted.
hey – Ducksnorts getting the shoutout!! in fact, the book getting the shoutout!!!! Great stuff Geoff!!!!!!
I feel so proud to be a part of the little group here right now..
Dude!!!!!!!!
now that is some sweet promo there!
such a plug haha, congrats geoff
Don’t know where Geoff is, but I hope he heard that.
that’s awesome! Wish I wasn’t watching on mute (catching “24″ on tivo at the same time…)
So we’re gonna have like 20,000 more people joining the IGD now, right?
yep, they spent a good 3 minutes or so pluggin Ducksnorts.com and the book. Matty mentioned that he recommended it to Darren Balsey.
that is awesome… Did you guys just see Jake Peavy getting smarter b y the second sitting next to maddux watching the game?
Thanks, folks. And thanks to the Channel 4 guys, too! Very cool.
AWESOME!!!!
42 – Geoff is sitting in the booth with a gun to Matty’s head apparently
49: That was so not right and so funny all at the same time…