Watched "A Mighty Wind" the other night. Entertaining flick. Parker Posey is hot, the Spinal Tap guys are great, Eugene Levy is disturbing, and the songs are hilarious (and well done). I love the fact that everyone plays their instruments (Catherine O’Hara plays a wicked autoharp). On the DVD, they have full versions of the [...]
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Bullet Points
Padres in market for first-rate catcher to call signals in new ballpark (U-T). The usual suspects. The Tigers picked up lefty Cliff Bartosh off waivers from the Pads; Bartosh had been ranked the Padres’ #23 prospect by BA coming into 2003 Baseball Reliquary. Self-described as "a nonprofit, educational institution dedicated to fostering an appreciation of [...]
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! New look is pretty scary, ain’t it? Ah, the joy of CSS. Don’t worry, it’ll all be back to normal soon enough. My latest article is up over at Primer: Baseball Primer’s 2003 Managers of the Year. Feel free to chime in on the relative merits of Alan Trammell or whatever. Seriously, if [...]
Six-Year Minor-League Free Agents
Tired of thinking about the fires. Doesn’t keep me from doing it, but every now and then I need a break. My continued thoughts and prayers to everyone impacted. In baseball news, the list of six-year minor-league free agents is out. Usually there are a few interesting names in the slush pile. Here are some [...]
San Diego Fires ’03
The city is on fire, literally, so this’ll be real quick. We’re tired and a little stressed, but we’re safe and our home is still standing. Big thanks to my buddy Don for letting us hang with him for the day, just in case. I hope you and all of yours are safe. If you [...]
Baseball Blogs and RSS
Okay, this is cool: Baseball Blogs. They track, at last count, 186 baseball blogs here. Webmasters, pay attention: this is what a web site should look like. Very clean layout and design. And of course, terrific content. Can’t believe it took me this long to find them. This site also has inspired me to add [...]
Trade for Catcher in the Works?
Clearing off the ol’ desk real quick. Enjoy… A reader alerted me to these two articles over at Prospectus where Jonah Keri interviews Padre GM Kevin Towers. As usual, Towers is pretty candid and it’s a good read. The reader who sent this also noted, “He [Towers] says he’s working on a trade for a [...]
California Screamin’
For a variety of reasons (your sanity, and mine), I try not to inject a lot of politics into this forum. But today I find myself in the embarrassing position of living in California and I just wanted to apologize on behalf of the state. For years I’ve been telling people that things aren’t really [...]
Playoffs, Prospects, and Blogs
Playoffs Hard to get too excited about the playoffs when you don’t have a rooting interest. That and the West Coast unfriendly times have kept me from watching all but a few innings thus far. Surprised and disappointed to see the Giants out of it already. Yeah, I’m a Padre fan and I know I’m [...]
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