Housekeeping Good news: After two days and much correspondence with tech support, ducksnorts.com appears to be out of DNS purgatory. Woo-hoo! Seems the domain was moved to another machine, but nobody told the DNS (domain name server). Again, I apologize for the inconvenience. Meantime, check out what you may have missed: Monday, March 31, 2003 [...]
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Game 2
I made a joke yesterday involving David Lee Roth. I said that he would be peforming with a puppet show at Viejas in June, when in fact only Roth will be appearing. It was wrong, and I apologize. The good news is there will be other puppet shows. Housekeeping Well, we seem to experiencing some [...]
Opening Day
It’s April Fools’ Day. No, really, I’m serious. Housekeeping I try to keep folks informed about changes to the site; it’s pretty dry stuff, so feel free to skip this part if you don’t care. I won’t be offended. From left to right, top to bottom, here are updates for April 1, 2003: Tweaked some [...]
Prospects at Elsinore
I don’t have anything profound to say after watching the Texas/Anaheim game last night. What else is new, right? I sure am glad baseball is back. Caught the Pads’ final exhibition game Saturday night at Elsinore. Jake Peavy dominated his old team, as he should have. Xavier Nady hit a long homer to left, for [...]
Final Spring Training Update
Do not attempt to adjust your monitor. In honor of the beginning of the Padres’ final season in Mission Valley, we’ve adopted the good ol’ hamburger and mustard look. I don’t have anything insightful to say today, and I haven’t had a chance to "play" with the site for a while, so what the heck. [...]
Spring Training Update for 3/27/03
I’m a bit pressed for time today, so we’ll keep this one real short and sweet. No relief: Walker, Witasick go on DL (U-T). Also, the catching situation remains unsettled; Shane Victorino will make the club over Roberto Kelly as the team’s fifth outfielder. Padres pound Mariners, Condrey pitches effectively (U-T). The battle between Condrey [...]
Spring Training Update for 3/26/03
Padres claimed Lou Merloni off waivers from Boston. Most famous as Nomar Garciaparra’s caddy, Merloni (which is Italian for "Keith Lockhart’s out of a job") is a hard-nosed guy who can play anywhere on the infield. The most similar batter to Merloni through age 31 is former Padre infielder Craig Shipley. Not exactly thrilling but [...]
"Stars of the Future" Game
Grabbed some bagels and coffee, filled up the tank. Picked up my buddy Jeff at his place, hit the freeway a little after 7:30 Sunday morning. Got to Yuma around 11:15 local time. Realized we had no idea where the stadium was. Stopped at a Circle K for directions; the woman who helped us seemed [...]
Recovering from Yuma
Okay, before you start throwing things at me, I have a good excuse for not writing today. I was in Yuma for the Padres’ "Stars of the Future" game and I’m still recovering. Highlights included a mammoth Jake Gautreau homer off former Brewer closer Doug Henry, good pitching from Cory Stewart and Justin Germano, and [...]
Giving Away Phillips, Part Three
Don’t worry, I’ll stop flogging this horse before too long, but first I want to share some feedback I’ve received about the Mark Phillips deal: Padres need to cut off all, ALL lines of communication w/ the Skanks. Remember, if you deal w/ the devil, you’re going to end up w/ egg on your face…wait, [...]
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