I should be putting new strings on my guitar right now, but I’m in more of a cherry pie and coffee mood, so the strings will have to wait. One of the more glamorous aspects of playing in a semi-working band, right up there with hauling heavy stuff all over the place, is watching what [...]
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Boyd’s World: RBOA 2004: The Best Pitchers of the Year Note the Pads’ Vern Sterry checking in at #6. If you haven’t been to Boyd Nation’s site (and I hadn’t in quite some time), you owe it to yourself to visit. He’s got some great, great stuff on college baseball. Aki Otuska will participate in [...]
Padres Off-Season: Starting Pitchers
Today kicks off our look at how the Padres might be able to improve themselves for next year. But first, a public service announcement. Tomorrow is Election Day. As a reformed apathist (didn’t vote between 1988 and 2003; not proud of it, but what’s done is done), I’d like to encourage everyone out there to [...]
Minor League Free Agents
The always entertaining Six-Year Free Agent List is up over at Baseball America. This, IMHO, is where Kevin Towers should be focusing the energy he spends on the Rule V draft every year. Most of these guys have mastered Double-A, and many of them have had productive stints in the big leagues. A ton of [...]
I Wish I Liked the Red Sox
I don’t, but I’m glad they took down the Yankees in historic fashion anyway. First, it’s a great accomplishment to come back from down 3-0. Actually, "great" isn’t a strong enough word. No MLB team had ever done it before last night. Ever. Plus it was pretty cool to watch a stadium full of shell-shocked [...]
This and That
Recovering from last week’s shows, getting ready for this week’s. Thinking of tie-ins for our band name. Like a drink, maybe. Anybody know of a drink that needs a name? I can’t promise you much. A t-shirt. And my gratitude. If you have a drink that you think could be called a “Chin Wagger” drop [...]
A Few Quick Thoughts
Oh boy, Baseball Reference has added 2004 stats. Check out the Padres page. You can see that Sean Burroughs compares well to Edgardo Alfonzo and Brooks Robinson at the same age, among others. You can also find weird pieces of information. For example, you probably know that Ryan Klesko hit just 9 homers this year, [...]
RIP, Cammy
I wanted to mention this sooner, but I’ve been searching for the right words. I still haven’t found them, and I may never find them, but I have to say something. As you probably know by now, former Padre third baseman Ken Caminiti died of an apparent heart attack Sunday, at age 41. The first [...]
Just How Unfriendly Was Petco to Hitters?
One of the central themes in 2004 here in Padreland was the home club’s inability to take advantage of the spacious new downtown ballpark. But how much did Petco Park actually hurt hitters? The answer, at least using one season’s worth of data (and only of Padres), is that it didn’t have much of an [...]
No Baseball Content: Naming a Band
If you are interested in starting a band and are looking for a name, here are three useful questions to ask yourself: Is anyone else already using it? Is anyone else already using it? Is anyone else already using it? If I were to add a fourth question, it would have to be: Is anyone [...]
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