With Mike Cameron now a member of the Mets and Kenny Lofton angling toward the other New York team, maybe it’s time to consider some other options. Supposedly with Cameron and Lofton off the market, Kevin Towers is now focusing his attention on the rotation. But I hold out some hope that the current outfield [...]
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Least Surprising News of the Off-Season
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 [...]
Soul-Crushing Defeat
Ain’t karma a bitch. We’ll talk about Sunday’s game tomorrow, since today is an off-day. But right now there are more important (and agonizing) things to discuss. Game 18: 4/19/03 Colorado 10, San Diego 9 (ESPN) As it turns out, Thursday’s game in Los Angeles was just a prelude for bigger things to come. Let’s [...]
Game 3
Housekeeping Good news: After two days and much correspondence with tech support, ducksnorts.com appears to be out of DNS purgatory. Woo-hoo! Seems the domain was moved to another machine, but nobody told the DNS (domain name server). Again, I apologize for the inconvenience. Meantime, check out what you may have missed: Monday, March 31, 2003 [...]
Spring Training Update for 2/19/03
Excuses, Excuses It’s nice to be appreciated. Some of you have asked about the lack of recent updates, and here’s the deal. I’ve been spending a lot of time and energy the past few months looking for a new job. This has forced me to cut back on "leisure activities" more than I’d have liked. [...]
Padres Sign Loretta, and Other Moves
Okay, so evidently the Padres weren’t done. The Moves Padres trade RHP Buddy Hernandez (taken earlier in the Rule 5 draft) to Oakland for IF Jose Flores. He’s a little old and has no big-league experience, but Flores is probably a better player than Deivi Cruz. He’ll compete with Chris Sexton and Homer Bush for [...]
A Year Later
A year later it still doesn’t seem real. But we all saw it happen. We all know it happened. I work on the 20th floor of a building that overlooks the airport in one of the more prominent military towns in the country. The flags on the rooftops of surrounding buildings are all at half-mast. [...]
Tejada, Burroughs, and Storm Winning Streak
So does Miguel Tejada lose some of his MVP support after dropping that feed from Mark Ellis last night? Yes, I’m being facetious. Sort of. The point is that a couple of game-winning hits late in the season shouldn’t have been enough alone to push him into MVP contention. Don’t get me wrong, Tejada is [...]
Tankersley Subdues Vlad
Okay, I’ve listened to the Rush CD a dozen or so times now, and it rocks. "Earthshine" is as good a song as they’ve recorded in 28 years. Rich and heavy. And real good. Rich, heavy, and real good also describes the pint of Guinness I enjoyed during last night’s game (still working on the [...]
Brett Tomko, Ben Howard, and Jose Rijo
I’ve been critical of the Ben Davis trade, mainly because I’m not all that thrilled with Ramon Vazquez. His upside looks like 1998 Chris Gomez, which isn’t all that bad but isn’t really worth Davis in my opinion. But yesterday one of the other guys who came over in the deal, Brett Tomko, made a [...]
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