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 [...]
Padres (0-0) vs Astros (0-0)
Jake Peavy vs Roy Oswalt
7:05 p.m. PT
Channel 4SD
AM 1090, FM 105.7, XM 184
MLB, B-R
It’s beginning to look a lot like Opening Day. What better time to bust out an esoteric table:
Jake Peavy: 2007 Starts by Percentage of Pitches for Strikes
Str/Pit
GS
IP/GS
H/9
HR/9
BB/9
K/9
ERA
W-L
RS/G
RA/G
Statistics are courtesy of Baseball-Reference.
>.66
10
6.80
5.16
0.40
2.51
11.25
1.72
8-1
6.70
2.60
.63-.66
15
6.60
7.64
0.45
2.36
9.00
2.36
6-4
3.73
2.87
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 [...]
At the end of February we held a “Guess the Opening Day roster” contest. Many participated, and one emerged victorious: long-time reader Bruce K. nailed 22 of the 25 roster spots, missing only on Justin Huber (which all 20 of us missed for obvious reasons — the contest closed on March 9, and Huber didn’t [...]
As regular readers know, because there are so many great food options within walking distance of Petco Park, I don’t do ballpark concessions. With Opening Day just around the metaphorical corner, I figure now is as good a time as any to revisit the ol’ Restaurant Guide.
One place I recently was turned onto is The [...]
Brian Giles saw his first action this spring on Monday. He went 0-for-2 against the Diamondbacks in Tucscon, but who cares? The important thing is, he was in the lineup and able to play right field. Quoth Giles:
This was a pretty good test. I know it was only three innings, but the conditions weren’t that [...]
Happy Leap Day. If you haven’t participated in the Opening Day Roster contest, what’s up with that? The winner receives a copy of the Ducksnorts 2008 Baseball Annual.
Meanwhile, we’ve got links:
SI.com reports that Brian Giles is feeling good. So is his surgically repaired right knee. [Kevin]
John Walsh at Hardball Times is searching for baseball’s best [...]
In honor of the Padres’ first Cactus League game (a charity event against the Mariners @ 12:05 p.m. PT, XM 180), and to celebrate the release of the Ducksnorts 2008 Baseball Annual, it’s time for the second annual Ducksnorts “Guess the Padres’ Opening Day Roster” contest. Here’s how it works:
Submit your guess via the handy [...]
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