Four runs in three games against the Rockies doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence, but at least the Padres managed to avoid being swept. Brian Lawrence looked terrific. Unfortunately he made the mistake of surrendering a run, which cost him a shot at the win. Shawn Estes had no command (60 strikes, 57 balls; six [...]
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So the Padres took another series, this one against the Reds. I didn’t catch the first few innings, but I understand that the visitors squandered numerous opportunities against a less-than-stellar Jake Peavy. By the time I got home to watch the game, the Padres were in the process of tying it up in the fourth. [...]
Cal League Tour 2004: Phase I
This season, my buddy Jeff and I have taken it upon ourselves to visit every park in the California League. We’re old and somewhat responsible these days, so the plan is to hit two towns a weekend, one weekend a month through August. The first phase of our journey saw us visit Lake Elsinore and [...]
Oh Center Fielder, Where Art Thou?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
My All-Star Teams vs Actual All-Star Teams
First off, thanks for all the well wishes. I’m doing fine, nothing is wrong; just needed some time off. I’m still on hiatus, but the All-Star teams have been announced and I just had to say something. First I’ll give you my picks, then I’ll kibbitz about the actual picks, then I’ll go back into [...]
Driving to Dallas
Tuesday, February 4, 2003 Very quickly, because I’m on my way out for a spell. Toreros got spanked by Texas this past weekend. I made it to the Friday game. Saw Mark Prior and Kevin Towers there. Guy by the name of Majewski hit a moonshot to right for Texas, off some dorms, to make [...]
Corey Patterson and George Foster
Why my continued fascination with Corey Patterson? I have no idea, but I was checking out his stats at Baseball-Reference.com the other day and came across this: Age AB BA OBP SLG BB SO OPS+ Player A 22 592 253 284 392 19 142 78 Player B 22 473 241 292 389 29 120 94 [...]
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