Archive for March, 2008

I’m a MLB Gameday Press Pass junkie. I read the Tigers Game Notes every day and when I have a few spare moments that might be better used trying to drum-up new client work, I’ll read other team’s notes. You never know what you’ll find.
Take, for example, this item from yesterday’s “Astros Media Information”:
NATIONAL BASEBALL [...]

Apparently, musician John Mayer has a little baseball announcer in him. Who knew? With brilliant calls like “And that happened!” and “It hit the ball and bounced past the white line; I’m not sure what that means,” I think I want this guy to have a regular broadcasting gig. How about on [...]

5:30 a.m.: Why… did… alarm go off… so… early? What’s going on? Fire drill? Is there… fire?
5:38 a.m.: Alarm… again. Is… this… dream? Night… mare?
5:45 a.m.: Red Sox-A’s game… at 6 a.m.? I can haz cawfee?
5:50 a.m.: Can’t… feel… face. What time is it? Did I [...]

I think I have an assignment for the folks at Merriam-Webster for the next edition of their dictionary. What is a word for a general manager that gave two-year contract extensions to players who both should’ve been dealt at last season’s trade deadline, but now finds himself needing to get rid of them to [...]

Following Prince Fielder’s still-baffling (at least to me) admission that he intends to compete at the major league level of baseball without eating meat comes the revelation (via Big League Stew) that Minnesota Twins reliever Pat Neshek is a vegan. That would give Neshek the conversational upper hand over Roger Clemens at cocktail parties [...]