One of my goals for this year is to post something here everyday. One of the realities of today is that my band unexpectedly has shows this weekend so I have to get my guitars ready. What does this mean to you? That’s right, bullet points: Yes, Steroids Help (Baseball Crank). A pretty well considered [...]
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Hall of Fame
It’s official: Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg are in, once again Alan Trammell is not. Trammell, in fact, suffered the indignity of finishing behind Steve Garvey. I’ve never been a Garvey fan but I’ll happily admit he was a good player in his day. A HOFer? Of course not. Better than Trammell? Please. And why [...]
Recycling: January 2002
Watching the Padres 2004 DVD. Jay Payton robbing Barry Bonds on Opening Day. I miss Payton already. I’ve got nothing today. Here’s some stuff I put together about this time three years ago… Future Friars: Padres Top 30 Prospects for 2002, Part 1 On Mewelde Moore: A standout running back at Tulane University, Moore is [...]
Out with the Old, In with the New
Went down to the Q yesterday for the first time since the Pads’ last game there. Packed house for the Chargers vs Chiefs. A lot more energy in that place than I’d remembered. A lot more people, too. No Drew Brees, no LaDainian Tomlinson, no Antonio Gates. But we did get to see Philip Rivers [...]
Blogsnort: 2004 Stats
Ducksnorts logged over 204,000 hits in 2004 from nearly 20,000 unique visitors (up from about 90,000 hits and 10,000 visitors the previous year). Thanks to all of you for helping to make this site such a success! Top 10 keyphrases used on search engines to get to Ducksnorts in 2004: ducksnorts vince faison petco park [...]
The Morning After
Just cleaning up the debris. Does your head still hurt? Don’t mind me, I’ll keep it down. A few items of note: Hoffman gets Hutch Award (U-T). Trevor Hoffman has won MLB’s annual award given to the player who most displays “honor, courage and dedication to baseball both on and off the field” for his [...]
Happy New Year
So yesterday I’m back at work, and there are photos of Dave Roberts all over my cubicle. Monitor, keyboard, calendar, filing cabinet, picture of the wife. Mojo Nixon had it wrong. Elvis ain’t everywhere, Dave Roberts is. For added effect, there’s even a U-T "article" on my desk claiming that the Padres have traded Jake [...]
State of the Outfield
I’m back in SD, to the stresses of everyday life. And I’m back also to whining about the Dave Roberts trade. But before I get started, here’s a note from another dissatisfied customer, E.B.: Not sure if you remember me. I emailed you once last year sending you a chart comparing a team’s ERA to [...]
Scouting Report 1990: Mark Grant
Haven’t seen blue sky since we’ve been on Kaua’i. Mostly overcast, with the typical Hawai’i on-off rain patterns (“Don’t like the weather? Wait five minutes”). But yesterday it broke into a full storm, with all the fixin’s. Skip the travelog, take me to the report Without wishing to seem overly melodramatic, being on a body [...]
Mele Kalikimaka
I am on the beautiful island of Kaua’i, and as I feared, I’ve officially lost my motivation. I will try to post something with a little more substance before I return to the mainland, but don’t count on it. Meantime, today’s photo comes from my wife’s family’s farm. We’re looking out across the pineapple fields [...]
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