Not much of a theme today. Just… whatever…
Remember when we used to lust after Marcus Giles? This was in 2002 — years before he actually arrived and demonstrated an alarming inability to hit baseballs. We kinda had a thing for Jose Vidro and Bobby Hill back then, too. Don’t ask. On the bright side, Royce [...]
Two quick observations about Jim Edmonds and Tadahito Iguchi:
Mike Cameron looked lost in center field last April.
Marcus Giles hit .327/.376/.459 that same month.
What we’re seeing from Edmonds and Iguchi right now may not mean much in August in September. In other words, we still don’t know what we’ve got…
I couldn’t sit still on Monday. I can’t sit still a lot of the time, but on Opening Day it’s always worse. My nervous tics develop nervous tics.
I arrived downtown just after 4 p.m., wearing my Chris Young jersey, and toting my digital camera and scorebook. Mrs. Ducksnorts and I wandered over to one of [...]
From esteemed reader LynchMob comes this excellent idea for a post on the eve of Opening Day: “provide us with a list of questions which you want us, the commenters, to go ‘on the record’ with”; he then poses several questions, which you will find below.
This might be fun to peek back at throughout the [...]
I don’t have a lot of links today, so before we get to those, let’s do a quick recap of this winter’s moves so far:
Out
Geoff Blum, INF: Signed with Houston Astros
Hiram Bochachica, INF/OF: Signed with Seibu Lions (Japan)
Milton Bradley, OF: Signed with Texas Rangers
Doug Brocail, RHP: Signed with Houston Astros
Mike Cameron, CF: Free agent
Jack Cassel, [...]
After fighting through some nasty traffic to get out of San Diego, my wife and I arrived at the Lake Elsinore Diamond in the 2nd inning of the season finale. This game was everything that my first California Fall League experience wasn’t: well played, well attended, and, well — more like an actual baseball game.
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