Yep. It’s finally here. Brian Lawrence and Hideo Nomo hook up at Dodger Stadium, 1 PM start. Throw out the high ERAs and hope everyone is ready. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty giddy about the upcoming season. I know, I always feel that way on Opening Day. But somehow I can’t help [...]
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Spring Training Notes
My wrists are killing me, so we’ll keep this short and sweet. Conversation with Tye Waller (PDX Beavers). Jonathan talks to the Pads’ Director of Player Development, who offers his thoughts on Bernie Castro, Freddy Guzman, Jason Szuminski, and more. Nice work here. Padres Notes: Top pick Stauffer makes belated debut (NC Times). Regular reader [...]
Spring Training Notes
Seems the hosting company moved my site to another server while I was on vacation and ducksnorts.com disappeared for a few days. In case you missed last Thursday’s report, check it out before proceeding. In other news, Brian Buchanan is seeing a lot of action at first base with Phil Nevin sidelined. Jeff Cirillo and [...]
Who’s On First?
While I was off cavorting about California’s central coast, discovering my new favorite small town, Phil Nevin injured his right shoulder. Again. Diving for a ball. Again. On March 7. Again. Details of Nevin’s injury and prognosis: Nevin suffers another injury (NC Times) Nady gets call to fill in at first (NC Times). Nevin is [...]
Spring Training Notes
Pitchers and catchers have reported. Position players arrive Wednesday. Let’s check out what’s going on so far: Padres pleased to see a healthy Hoffman (U-T). Trevor Hoffman, David Wells, and Tim Stauffer all looked good during their first workouts. Wells will start the Petco Park opener, with Brian Lawrence opening the season in Dodger Stadium [...]
Guitar Solos
Warning, low baseball content today. Skip to end of entry to read. A good guitar solo (or any instrumental solo) in popular music effectively serves three purposes: It gives the vocalist a break from singing, a chance to catch his or her breath before launching into the second half of the song. It gives the [...]
Junk Drawer
First off, I’m very flattered by the interest in the Best of 2003 compilation. It’s been up for about 48 hours now, and so far we’ve had 149 downloads. The few folks I’ve talked to who’ve actually had a chance to read through some of it have had good things to say. I look forward [...]
Prospecting
I had a chance to visit Petco Park the other day. Still needs a little work, but it’s looking real good. Genius that I am, I forgot to bring my digital camera so no pix. Tried to circumnavigate the stadium by foot, but thanks to all the construction, that’s nearly impossible. Of course, I didn’t [...]
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! New look is pretty scary, ain’t it? Ah, the joy of CSS. Don’t worry, it’ll all be back to normal soon enough. My latest article is up over at Primer: Baseball Primer’s 2003 Managers of the Year. Feel free to chime in on the relative merits of Alan Trammell or whatever. Seriously, if [...]
Stauffer, Greene, and Tucker
As expected, I busted a string this weekend. I usually change strings before a gig, but since we only played one night last weekend (and for just three hours instead of the usual four), I figured I could get away with keeping the old ones on a bit longer. Sure enough, midway through the second [...]
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