Listening to a cool collection of Japanese Koto music. The melodies are ethereal and soothing. A good antidote to stress. Baseball Here’s a troubling split in an admittedly small sample. Jake Peavy vs RHB: .213/.243/.284; vs LHB: .318/.393/.551. FWIW, Peavy had no trouble with lefties in the minors. They hit .239/.312/.310 against him at Mobile [...]

After dropping the first two games at San Bernardino, the Storm have won the next two at home, forcing a game five back on the road. Right-hander Mike Bumstead goes against lefty Glenn Bott at 7:05 tonight. In a minor upset, Baseball America has named Rocco Baldelli 2002 Minor League Player of the Year. Personally [...]

Hey, I’m back. Hope you all had a good Labor Day weekend. My brother-in-law came to town, which meant lots of Playstation 2 games (Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance this time around; highly addictive) and Asian buffet. If you can deal with Anne Murray singing about Jesus (she does some secular tunes, too; you haven’t really [...]

Cool site: Only Baseball Matters. Over at Baseball Prospectus, Rany Jazayerli has some thoughts on The Five-Man Rotation. I haven’t had a chance to digest this yet, but it’s a different perspective. Caught the tail end of the Cubs/Astros game last night. Silly umpiring decision. After both teams had been warned, Houston starter Roy Oswalt [...]

Predictably, traffic school stunk. Actually, it wasn’t as bad as I’d expected. The main problem is that it killed my Saturday. But there was some nice scenery, if you know what I mean. Yeah, I’m a pig; I admit it. What’s up with Padre starting pitching? This is painful. Last night’s game was so bad [...]

I’m trying not to be too cynical and down on the owners, but it’s difficult when they keep lying to us (ESPN). Sigh. On the field: How about Ron Gant and the Padres yesterday? They never win games like that. Great job by the bullpen to hold the Phillies in check until the offense woke [...]

Jake Peavy threw a heckuva game last night. Worked out of a nice little jam there in the third. Did ya see that play he made coming off the mound and nailing the runner at the plate? Looked like Greg Maddux out there. Brandon Villafuerte has been pitching well since his recall. My wife, who [...]

In the daily drama that is my computer, I’ve managed to access my hard drive. I still can’t boot to it but after several hours of research and just plain messing around with things, I discovered I could boot to the CD drive. Not really a long-term solution but it’ll have to do until I [...]

I’m spending most of my time this week at Comic-Con being an even bigger geek than usual, so today’s entry will be brief and somewhat scattered. In other words, business as usual. Very quickly, here are a few sites I’ve recently discovered (in no particular order) that you might find interesting: Diamond Science WillCaroll.com WhiteSoxInteractive [...]

Odds and ends today. Mostly odds… Good article over at Baseball Prospectus about the ways in which groundskeepers "help" the home team. Gary Huckabay is one of my favorite baseball writers, and this one’s a treat. Speaking of treats (and having nothing to do with baseball), if you ever have the chance to see Willie [...]