Archive for February, 2008

Today’s New York Times had an interesting story by Alan Schwarz about R.A. Dickey, who’s now floating his knuckleball in the Seattle Mariners organization. He spent last season on the Brewers’ Triple-A farm club, but found himself with the Mariners after they selected him in the Rule 5 draft from Minnesota. Since Dickey [...]

I uncovered this. Man, does that look strange.

Sometimes I surprise myself with the things I remember that I forgot. Honestly that wasn’t a poor attempt at homespun Yogi Berra quote.
A couple of years ago I went to see the Diamondbacks play the Marlins at Chase Field and saw blast from the past Bobby Meacham coaching third base for the Marlins. What was [...]

Apparently Diamondbacks CEO Jeff Moorad likes what he sees out of team president Derrick Hall and GM Josh Byrnes — enough to give them both eight-year contract extensions.
Byrnes has cultivated a winner in his short time with the Diamondbacks, though, as Buster Olney points out today [$], he did have a sweet crop of talent [...]

I haven’t seen a game there in person, but from television, Tropicana Field in Tampa appears to be the most unappealing ballpark experience in the major leagues. With its concrete exterior and interior, and catwalks suspended above the field, the Trop looks to have all the ambiance of a nuclear power plant. It [...]

I’ve always liked Mike Hampton and thought it was far more gutsy a move for him to sign with the Rockies (in 2001 for 8 years and $121 million) than Denny Neagle.

I thought it was all going to workout fine when he tossed an 8-0 Opening Day gem…at Coors Field. Alas…
Fast forward to 2008. After [...]

I prefer to blame it on a foggy-brained Monday morning and not my advancing age. When I saw this headline today — Nixon auditions for Arizona, other MLB clubs at D-backs’ camp — my first thought was: Otis Nixon is trying out for the Diamondbacks?!
Not quite.
Veteran outfielder Trot Nixon, still hoping to latch on with [...]

On The Daily Fungo recently, I wrote about former big-league pitcher and Detroit-area native Lary Sorensen’s most recent dance with the bottle.

When Roseville, Mich., police found Sorensen asleep on the side of I-696 two weeks ago, his blood-alcohol level was .48.
The Detroit News‘ Neal Rubin takes a closer look at how that’s even possible. According [...]

“Opulent” isn’t a word normally used to describe major-league ballparks but we’ll make an exception for Yankee Stadium 3.0.
The new Yankee Stadium will have party suites, a members-only restaurant, a martini bar and a price tag to match all the luxury — $1.3 billion, up from the original estimate of $1 billion.
“We tried to reflect [...]