I’m probably the only person I know who’s more excited about the USD baseball game this Sunday than the Super Bowl, which will be taking place just down the hill. Speaking of the Super Bowl, having a bunch of blimps circle your building all week is a surreal experience. It’s like they’re searching for a [...]
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Site Development, Padres, and College Baseball
Site Development Trying to get a mail form thang working. Textarea validation is a real pain in the rear. Anyway, I have a prototype that seems to work reasonably well. Internet Explorer gives a javascript error that I’m unable to fix, but it doesn’t appear to affect functionality so we’ll live with it for the [...]
Bullet Points
Way too much going on, so it’s bullet points today. Is it too late to move this year’s Super Bowl to, say, Nairobi? One local liquor store owner I talked to said he would lock up his store and get out of town if the Raiders ended up coming here. This isn’t going to be [...]
Padres Top 20 Prospects for 2003: 1-10
Sorry for the delay, folks. Bit of a crisis at work this morning. Servers have a way of crashing at the most inopportune times. I’ve got a lot on my plate at the moment, so this will be my last posting till probably the middle of next week. In the meantime, you’ve always got… Blogs, [...]
Sickels 1996 and Win Shares, Part 8
Music Theory Well, not really. Quick ruminations on some of what I like in music. Strong melody, backed by something that works against it. Bjork, Radiohead, and some late-model Beatles (I’m thinking specifically of songs like "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Yer Blues") are artists in the pop world that do this well. Charles Mingus and [...]
Sickels 1996 and Win Shares, Part 7
Have to spend some time brushing up on my ASP, so just the facts today. Sickels 1996 and Win Shares By Position, Outfielders left field Grd WS Marvin Benard C 65 Dmitri Young B- 58 J. Encarnacion C 32 Q. McCracken B 29 O. Palmeiro C 24 Quick and dirty: Left field is the second [...]
Sickels 1996 and Win Shares, Part 6
I’m about the only person I know who still thinks Mark Phillips will have a better big-league career than Oliver Perez. Don’t bother trying to talk me out of it. Can’t be done. I worry about Perez’ multiple arm angles, his body type, his high pitch counts last year, his winter ball work. I keep [...]
Sickels 1996 and Win Shares, Part 5
In my discussion yesterday of Mike Rivera, I forgot to mention Gary Bennett. He’s also in the running for one of the two catching spots. My early guess is that Bennett and Rivera split time, with Wiki Gonzalez and his contract being traded before the season. Steve Violetta Thanks to regular reader Dan Walls for [...]
Padres Top 20 Prospects for 2003: 11-20
I was checking out stats for my domains yesterday and discovered that one of them had 108,000+ hits the other day. I’m a little slow sometimes, so my initial reaction was "wow, cool." Understand that normal traffic for that site is in the 300-500 range. Upon further investigation, I’ve discovered that the vast majority of [...]
Sickels 1996 and Win Shares, Part 4
I don’t know about you, but the lack of baseball books is bringing me down. I’m used to having my STATS trifecta by now, but this year there’s nothing. Ah well. Buddy Carlyle Our old (well, not that old — he’s only 25) friend is back in the USA: There’s no place like home for [...]
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