Wednesday, September 03, 2003
HITTING TO ALL FIELDS
It has been awhile so I am just going to empty out my notebook, Pocket PC recordings taken while driving around New England, and random comments on numerous scraps of paper.
• I saw a typical Yanks fans’ car with a big “NY” on rear window, huge poiler, tinted cloudy windows, big rims, chain around the license plate all on a Mystic. I was laughing my ass off on the way to work that morning. Good times. Good times.
• I think Theo really does read El Guapo’s Ghost. Everyone together now, Lou---------------------------. He should really run for Governor of Mass.
• I think I am only one that does not like the Padres acquisition of Giles and definitely not when they made the deal. More on this at a later date.
• Can someone please tell me why school buses do not have seat belts? Even the state with the motto “Live Free or Die” requires children to be buckled in a car.
• What’s up with Danys Beaz? The Indians have used him as a set-up guy, starter, closer and now back to setting-up. The rumor is Wickman will be back next season and the Indians can not pay both of them around $5 million to be in the pen so Beaz is going to be moved. Then why take him out of the closer role where he could have continued to rack up the most overrated stat upping his trade value? I wish I could have made it to the Baseball Prospectus Pizza Feed in Cleveland to ask the Indians Assistant GMs that very question.
• If the airlines are bankrupt, why is nearly every airport expanding?
• LHB SLG 507 and RHP 293 against Timlin. LHB with any kind of power should be Embree time.
• Obey Pedro (link to right) is selling wonderful CHB stuff.
• STOMP! is a drill team on steroids using everyday props. It is a nice show but Blue Man Group is unbelievable.
• There is little I hate more than fair weather fans like the Yanks fan at Sunday’s Sox-Yanks game wearing a Patriots Super Bowl t-shirt and a Yanks hat. I bet he had Lakers underroos on too.
• The major media gave us, Sox fans, credit for respecting Clemens, but Sox mgt deserves just as much for the message on the jumbo-tron that encouraged the fans response.
• Q&A with Dontrelle - Which of the following do you want if you can have only one -- money, fame, power, the ability to drive all women crazy or the ability to dance like Hammer in his prime? ''[Laughter] Give me Hammer time. You dance like Hammer in his prime, you are getting all that other stuff, too. That's not even a joking matter. In his prime, you could have gone to Wisconsin and found people who were too legit to quit.'' - You get 20 bucks a day in meal money in the minors. You still find it weird when they hand you your major-league meal money before a road trip and it is about $700 cash that you don't even need because every clubhouse has plenty of food? ''It's still unreal. It's going to take me a long time to get over that. We already have a cafeteria. We already have a cook. And then they give us a stack of cash.'' (Batard, Miami.com) - This guy seems awesome, someone you want to hang out with and honest, no PR spin. I guess Crash Davis never caught the D-Train.
• I would like to thank one of Boston’s Finest for allowing me to cut through a street closed to all traffic other than residents due to BU moving day last Sunday. I did not have to wait in Kenmore Square traffic after the Sox game. Yes, I did find another free parking spot for the game. Life is good. Life is sweet. You know you can’t resist. Come on everyone and sing along with me. It is hold up…
• In a reply e-mail, he [John Henry] said, "It is outrageous for a fan of ours to be thrown out of the game for tossing an opposing home run ball back onto the field. I will look into it and personally apologize to this man." (McGory, Boston Globe). These guys get it.
• It speaks volumes that the team was right behind Pedro, but not Manny.
• Sox RP Diary http://premium.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2263
• Interview with John Henry http://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/20021213keri.shtml
• Facing the Nation (Red Sox Nation that is) http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2003/08/29/facing_the_nation/
It has been awhile so I am just going to empty out my notebook, Pocket PC recordings taken while driving around New England, and random comments on numerous scraps of paper.
• I saw a typical Yanks fans’ car with a big “NY” on rear window, huge poiler, tinted cloudy windows, big rims, chain around the license plate all on a Mystic. I was laughing my ass off on the way to work that morning. Good times. Good times.
• I think Theo really does read El Guapo’s Ghost. Everyone together now, Lou---------------------------. He should really run for Governor of Mass.
• I think I am only one that does not like the Padres acquisition of Giles and definitely not when they made the deal. More on this at a later date.
• Can someone please tell me why school buses do not have seat belts? Even the state with the motto “Live Free or Die” requires children to be buckled in a car.
• What’s up with Danys Beaz? The Indians have used him as a set-up guy, starter, closer and now back to setting-up. The rumor is Wickman will be back next season and the Indians can not pay both of them around $5 million to be in the pen so Beaz is going to be moved. Then why take him out of the closer role where he could have continued to rack up the most overrated stat upping his trade value? I wish I could have made it to the Baseball Prospectus Pizza Feed in Cleveland to ask the Indians Assistant GMs that very question.
• If the airlines are bankrupt, why is nearly every airport expanding?
• LHB SLG 507 and RHP 293 against Timlin. LHB with any kind of power should be Embree time.
• Obey Pedro (link to right) is selling wonderful CHB stuff.
• STOMP! is a drill team on steroids using everyday props. It is a nice show but Blue Man Group is unbelievable.
• There is little I hate more than fair weather fans like the Yanks fan at Sunday’s Sox-Yanks game wearing a Patriots Super Bowl t-shirt and a Yanks hat. I bet he had Lakers underroos on too.
• The major media gave us, Sox fans, credit for respecting Clemens, but Sox mgt deserves just as much for the message on the jumbo-tron that encouraged the fans response.
• Q&A with Dontrelle - Which of the following do you want if you can have only one -- money, fame, power, the ability to drive all women crazy or the ability to dance like Hammer in his prime? ''[Laughter] Give me Hammer time. You dance like Hammer in his prime, you are getting all that other stuff, too. That's not even a joking matter. In his prime, you could have gone to Wisconsin and found people who were too legit to quit.'' - You get 20 bucks a day in meal money in the minors. You still find it weird when they hand you your major-league meal money before a road trip and it is about $700 cash that you don't even need because every clubhouse has plenty of food? ''It's still unreal. It's going to take me a long time to get over that. We already have a cafeteria. We already have a cook. And then they give us a stack of cash.'' (Batard, Miami.com) - This guy seems awesome, someone you want to hang out with and honest, no PR spin. I guess Crash Davis never caught the D-Train.
• I would like to thank one of Boston’s Finest for allowing me to cut through a street closed to all traffic other than residents due to BU moving day last Sunday. I did not have to wait in Kenmore Square traffic after the Sox game. Yes, I did find another free parking spot for the game. Life is good. Life is sweet. You know you can’t resist. Come on everyone and sing along with me. It is hold up…
• In a reply e-mail, he [John Henry] said, "It is outrageous for a fan of ours to be thrown out of the game for tossing an opposing home run ball back onto the field. I will look into it and personally apologize to this man." (McGory, Boston Globe). These guys get it.
• It speaks volumes that the team was right behind Pedro, but not Manny.
• Sox RP Diary http://premium.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=2263
• Interview with John Henry http://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/20021213keri.shtml
• Facing the Nation (Red Sox Nation that is) http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2003/08/29/facing_the_nation/
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