Sorry ’bout yesterday. Sometimes that happens. On the bright side, it did inspire some of you to write. I guess that whole Spam thing did come off as kind of a cry for help, didn’t it? Anyway, I’m okay. The Padres re-upped Trevor Hoffman. After pulling in $9M for 2003, Hoffman is guaranteed $2.5M for [...]
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Mailbag
So my "Statewide Special Election" pamphlet arrived the other day (oh, it’s special alright). I try not to get too political here or in real life, but since this is more comedy than politics, here are my new favorite candidates: Trek Thunder Kelly An artist from Venice, Kelly’s statement asks Californians to vote for him, [...]
Padres Lose to Giants
Not much good to say about last night’s game. Ben Howard was all over the place. Luther Hackman was right down the middle of the plate. Ramon Vazquez played like a guy who knows he’s lost his job. Silver linings? A few: Although he had just one single to show for it, Sean Burroughs continued [...]
Josh Barfield, Part II
Listening to Neil Young Harvest at the moment. Picked up the CD a while ago, just opened it. Haven’t heard this in probably 20 years, except for the radio songs. You ever hear Tori Amos’ version of "Heart of Gold"? Sounds nothing like the original, has some really messed-up guitar sounds on it (thank you, [...]
Giles Arrives, Hoffman Returns
Few quick notes from Tuesday night’s game: Didn’t get to our seats till the bottom of the second, so we missed Brian Giles’ first Padre at-bat in San Diego. From the ticket window it sounded like he got a pretty good reception. And all the folks, such as myself, who missed his first trip to [...]
Other Takes on Giles Coming to the Padres
Hope you had a safe and enjoyable Labor Day Weekend! I spent mine working on the yard, cleaning up around the house, and doing some recording. Not a lot to report at the moment. Figured I’d throw some more Brian Giles stories at you while we’re still in the infatuation phase: Stats Geek says Brian [...]
Oliver Perez vs Pedro Martinez
Great win Sunday, after a heartbreaker Saturday night. Tough to see the Pads give the game away Saturday after scrapping back from down six. The silver lining is that the Astros burned up their bullpen in trying to preserve the win, which led to Jimy Williams having to stick with the erratic Ron Villone maybe [...]
Giles Makes Padres Debut
Before I launch into the "Welcome Brian Giles" portion of this entry, I’d just like to say that I’m sorry to see Ollie Perez and Rondell White go. In my excitement about picking up Giles, I’m not sure I made that clear. I’ve been following Perez for a long time, and I think he’s got [...]
Padres Acquire Giles
Holy superstars, Batman, Brian Giles is a Padre. I’m so excited I’m even using my crappy old Windows 98 laptop to write this. Where to begin? I’ll just start spewing random thoughts as they occur to me, so if this entry is more incoherent than most (how can you tell?), I trust you’ll understand. The [...]
Trade Deadline
Wife: What’s that noise? Me: What noise? Wife: That one. Me: Sounds like it’s coming from over there. Some guy is doing something. Wife: I hear it every day. Me: I guess he does it every day. Wife: Okay, Mr.-Don’t-Care-to-Know-It-All. Thus a monicker is born. . . . So Kevin Towers and the Padres did [...]
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