A rare weekend appearance from yours truly. Just wanted to let y’all know I’ve finally posted more pix of Petco Park. Check ‘em out at www.ducksnorts.com/stadium; note the light standards. It’s starting to look like a ballpark. One of the things I’m going to miss about working downtown is being able to walk down to [...]
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Spring Training Update for 2/19/03
Excuses, Excuses It’s nice to be appreciated. Some of you have asked about the lack of recent updates, and here’s the deal. I’ve been spending a lot of time and energy the past few months looking for a new job. This has forced me to cut back on "leisure activities" more than I’d have liked. [...]
Spring Training Update for 2/18/03
Spring Training Update Notes: Randy Smith rejoins Padres (Padres.com). Also thoughts on the death of Orioles’ prospect Steve Bechler; updates on Trevor Hoffman, Gary Bennett, and Rob Ramsay; the signing of former Yankee left-hander Randy Keisler; and Ryan Klesko’s pitch to sign beleaguered southpaw John Rocker. Randy Keisler For more on Keisler, we turn to [...]
Beavers and Hoffman
Renewed my Storm mini-plans yesterday. Life is good. I’m looking forward to seeing the latest crop of young pitchers in the system: Justin Germano, Jon Huber, Javier Martinez, Tom Lipari, Nobuaki Yoshida. Should be fun. Portland Beavers Jonathan over at PDX Beavers is doing an in-depth preview of the 2003 Portland Beavers season: An Early [...]
Ken Burns, DIPS, Sleepers, and Prospects
I promised baseball today, and that’s what I’ll deliver. First off, here are a couple articles worth reading: An Interview with Ken Burns (Alex Belth’s Bronx Banter) Defense Independent Pitching Statistics for 2002 (Futility Infielder) These are gems. I hate to admit it, but I haven’t seen Burns’ "Baseball" (although I’ve seen some of his [...]
Back from Texas
I’m back. Great drive to Texas. Nothing like a road trip to clear the ol’ cob webs. Here are a few things I learned and/or rediscovered along the way: Duke Ellington was a genius Cactus looks really strange covered in snow I can listen to Adrian Belew all day I can barely listen to Robert [...]
Driving to Dallas
Tuesday, February 4, 2003 Very quickly, because I’m on my way out for a spell. Toreros got spanked by Texas this past weekend. I made it to the Friday game. Saw Mark Prior and Kevin Towers there. Guy by the name of Majewski hit a moonshot to right for Texas, off some dorms, to make [...]
Corey Patterson and George Foster
Why my continued fascination with Corey Patterson? I have no idea, but I was checking out his stats at Baseball-Reference.com the other day and came across this: Age AB BA OBP SLG BB SO OPS+ Player A 22 592 253 284 392 19 142 78 Player B 22 473 241 292 389 29 120 94 [...]
Loretta, Peavy, and Whatever Else
Due to various minor crises, today’s entry is a bit late and will be brief. First, thanks to Fanstop folks for pointing out the following articles: Loretta eager for new opportunity (Padres.com) Breaking Out (Baseball Prospectus). The discussion of Jake Peavy is spot-on. If he works more than 170 innings this year or throws more [...]
Dog Ate My Blog
Dog ate my blog yesterday. Here it is, a day late. For best results, pretend you’re reading this on Monday. The big day finally arrived here in San Diego yesterday. Hundreds of thousands were in town this weekend as the event came upon us, yet oddly enough only a few hundred actually showed up. Football? [...]
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