Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

From Baseball-Reference.com, a couple of interesting items from today’s date in baseball history:

A game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Houston Astros between was rained out at the Houston Astrodome. Only members of both teams were able to make it to the stadium. The game was postponed when heavy rains and flooding prevented umpires, fans and [...]

…visit the Nick Piecoro Covering the Diamondbacks blog on the Arizona Republic site. Piecoro gets what makes a good writer’s blog.

We know, there’s nothing worse than a blog that goes dark for, oh, two months. We’ll be back soon with BaseballBlend.com — we’ve got some ideas brewing to make it a site worth your time…again.
In the spirit of triumphant returns, let’s all welcome back former Angel/Royal/Blue Jay Willie Mays Aikens.
Aikens, whose case was often cited [...]

Mike Hampton is an easy target for cheap injury jokes but you shan’t find them here. I’ve always liked Hampton and thought he showed guts signing a big-dollar contract with the Rockies — with the real possibility of getting his brains beaten in every fifth day.
Unfortunately the injury bug done bit Hampton again today as [...]

“Maybe,” Lyon lamented, “I should have just thrown it down the middle and let him bunt it.”

ShysterBall pretty much already stated my thoughts on this story, but when I read earlier today that Moises Alou said he wouldn’t have caught the infamous foul ball that Steve Bartman presumably kept from his glove in Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS, I imagined Bartman hearing the news on the TV or radio (if [...]

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 [...]