Busy weekend. Spent most of Saturday reorganizing my study and trying to get my Linux machine to do something more useful than let me play mah-johngg. No luck. The computer still thinks the mouse and the modem are one in the same. Not good. Off to Elsinore that night for the first playoff game between [...]
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Haiku Birdie
Not baseball related, but here’s an interesting article on one of the great San Diego anti-heroes, former Charger “quarterback” Ryan Leaf. Karma is a beautiful thing. Speaking of San Diego anti-heroes, the Expos released Hideki Irabu because he showed up drunk to a “rehab” start. My favorite anagram for Hideki Irabu: Haiku Birdie. And about [...]
Three Links
Not much time today. Here are few links to hopefully keep you entertained and informed: Baseball Nocturne Futility Infielder Rob Neyer and friends talk about Bud Smith’s no-no and pitch counts Enjoy!
Bud Smith No-Hits Padres
No, I wasn’t at the game last night, but I did watch it on television. Sigh. I keep telling myself I probably got a better view of Bud Smith’s no-no, but it hurts. At any rate, it was a dominant performance, much moreso than A.J. Burnett’s against the Pads earlier in the year. Only three [...]
Padres Outlast Diamondbacks
Thanks to the three-day weekend, I’ve actually had some time to work on the site redesign. The template is looking pretty much the way I want but I’ve still got a ways to go in terms of converting all the documents. It’s my own damn fault, of course, because I insist on doing everything by [...]
Padres Split Doubleheader and a Look Around the Minors
Brett Jodie looked pretty good in his Padres debut. Working from a funky, straight-over-the-top delivery, he spotted fastballs in the 86-89 mph range and a couple of breaking pitches. He only allowed two hits in his five innings of work; unfortunately, they were solo homers to Danny Bautista and Luis Gonzalez, and his opposition on [...]
Ryan Klesko, San Diego Area Prospects, and Ben Davis’ Slide
RHP Brett Jodie, acquired from the Yankees in the Sterling Hitchcock deal, makes his Pads’ debut tonight against Arizona. Jodie has pitched fairly well at Portland since coming over, posting a 4.75 ERA in 30.1 IP, with 8 BB and 19 SO. He fits in well with Kevin Towers’ philosophy of grabbing guys who throw [...]
Road Trip, Days Five and Six: The Home Stretch
After leaving Ashland Monday morning, we headed back through the rice paddies and corn fields, through the almond, olive, and pistachio groves, through the cattle and goats, toward Fresno. We took an unintentional excursion through the streets of North Sacramento before finding the correct I-80 (memo to city planners; don’t build two freeways with the [...]
Road Trip, Day Four: Behind the Scenes
We didn’t win Powerball, so I guess we’ll have to go back to work when we get home. Meantime, we went on a behind-the-scenes tour of the theaters in town. Learned a little about costume and set design, lighting techniques, and other various aspects of putting on a play. Tough gig performing and producing theater. [...]
Road Trip, Day Three: The Merchant of Venice
We began yesterday with a light breakfast, then walked into town to check out the bookstores and various other shops. Sandra ended up buying some comic books, while I picked up a hard-cover copy of Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare. At one of the used bookstores, I stumbled onto something written back in the early 1980s [...]
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