Today is the third day that could be called Opening Day, with a slate of six games. Teams that lost 99 games last year aren't invited until tomorrow, however.
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Today is the third day that could be called Opening Day, with a slate of six games. Teams that lost 99 games last year aren't invited until tomorrow, however.
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Ball Four is the Kindle deal of the day. You can get it for $0.99 over at Amazon.com
I bought it. I'm sure somebody here can tell me if it's good.
I already have two copies at home (one signed by Jim Bouten that I found at a used book store).
Jim Bouton does not like Sal Maglie.
Mike Marshall was considered flaky.
And here is the smoking gun in the Gregg Williams case.
while this is all well and good, has the NFL even done a cursory glance at any other teams? i believe i predicted that the NFL would come down hard on the saints, brush their hands and say, "well, we took care of that problem". so far, that seems to be the case.
I think I read that they are investigating other teams as well. I assume that other teams wouldn't be quite so obvious, but I could be mistaken.
At least the Louisiana Senate has everything under control.
"No one wants to make excuses for what the Saints did," Morrell said. "But
the sanctions are excessiveit's an election year."FTFH.
With baseball season starting I thought I would share a couple of pre season wagers I would have made if wagering were legal.
what is the line on the Gigantes winning the NL West? (looks -- +150, and o/u of 87.5)
SF's rotation will be excellent again (Lincecum, Cain, Bumgarner, Zito and, when he gets off the DL, Vogelsong). The bullpen will be solid, and the offense should be much improved with the acquisitions of Melky Cabrera and Angel Pagan (ok, not great, but better than the declining Andres Torres), the return of a healthy Buster Posey, the expected return of Freddy Sanchez, and a full season of Nate Schierholz in RF. The major losses were the Carlos Beltran rental and erratic Jonathan Sanchez from the rotation.
Add a full, quality season from Panda and some competence from the Aubrey Huff/Brett Pill/Brandon Belt combination at 1b, this team should be pretty good.
I'd guess there's a good payout on Division, League, and World Series KC Royals.
Even Wild-Card KCR.
Not that I think they're most likely, but I do think they're more likely than the line would assume.
So if I were to put money in, that's where I'd do it.
Anyways, most likely is boring, and you get the whole staff of the HBT picking the same 5 teams to make the playoffs from the AL. (No one went with Boston, the only disagreement was TEX or ANA for the West, and probably the order of the two Wild Cards.)
Wagering on sports here is completely legal. I might have to see what is available to me here.
So this is what my website is telling me. The Twins are 80/1 to win everything, and 40/1 to come in 1st or 2nd. I can't bet O/U on wins it doesn't look like.
jeezum crow, i'm loving everything about this new miami team. these are breathtaking.
Awesome. The Marlins Just. Don't. Care. about your middlebrow standards of taste.
Holy
sh*tshit!TNR celebrates baseball (I think).
Oooh, "least exploitative"!!!!!11111one1111!!! Let's go to the ballpark, kids!
depressing
April is Tank Time!
alabama shakes daytrotter session.
I'm downloading this tonight.
I bought the annual membership. My free T-shirt should be coming any month now.
I'm back. What'd I miss?
We all swapped user names. Nobody is really sure who's who yet.
Great and/or Terrible!
Wait, who are you again?
I'm the fool who quit his job to become a professional umpire, but having failed at making affiliated ball has decided to go back to school in Europe.
Where?
I'm just filling out applications but trying to get into a couple of Universities in Germany.
Definitely not Prague. I hear a bad crowd runs there.
Viel gluck, buddy. Hope things work out.
Don't consider yourself a fool. You had something you really wanted to do, and you gave it your best shot. That's a lot better than sitting around twenty years from now wondering what would've happened if you'd tried.
I can wholeheartedly support the Good Padre's advice. I've done that now, twice - packed up and moved because I felt like I wanted to and I didn't want to regret it later. Things haven't worked out perfectly along the way, and sometimes I wish I might have handled things slightly differently, but not as much as if I had never tried.
Of course. I have no regrets.
I did that once -- moving to DC after finishing undergrad. No regrets on that decision at all. I made plenty of mistakes, learned a ton, and made some wonderful memories.
As usual the WGOM Citizens have been quite successful in knocking up their wives.
That's what happens when the Twins lose 99 games.
That sounds awful. But congratulations nonetheless.
Interesting Torii Storii.
I thought this was funny considering our recent Cuddiier and Torii discussion.
Yup.
Tomorrow's story has Torii making fun of the other cop who just sat in the squad car and wouldn't come in to try to arrest him.
Or talking about how great the cops are in each municipality he passes through.
For some reason I thought Punto was going to get punched at the end of this story.
Or Tazed!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XWijwmvGU4
Edit: Hmmm, this isn't nearly as amusing as I'd remembered.
No word on whether the cops were related to Mauer.
just the one back in the squad car, afraid to come in the house.
Cards get the dreaded #6org. My new boss is a Cardinals fan, so this could be interesting. (everyone else seems to be a Cubs fan, so it could be even more interesting.)
Hey, my future hometown is at the top of that list! Wait, that's a bad thing? Crap.
DC isn't too far away at least!
JeffA alert whats happening with Brad Havens these days
You know, we really ought to do something about professional writers stealing our best shtick.
How do we know he's not actually one of us?
Thanks! Any time anyone sees something like that, please let me know. I always feel bad when I have to say that no information is available about someone.
My boss left yesterday on an improptu vacation. To Florida. To watch the Gophers play hockey. So I think it's only fitting and proper that tomorrow afternoon I hold the bag in front of my television set as the Twins play the Orioles. All those in favor, signify by drinking a beer. All those opposed, have a Budweiser.
this Bud's for you.
Opening day roster is set - sorry if I'm stepping on your call sean.
CF Denard Span
SS Jamey Carroll
C Joe Mauer
DH Justin Morneau
LF Josh Willingham
RF Ryan Doumit
3B Danny Valencia
1B Chris Parmelee
2B Alexi Casilla
SP Carl Pavano
Huh. I don't hate it. I don't hate it at all. I mean, I'm not excited, but after last year...yeah, this lineup does it for me.
Save it for tomorrow!
Premature speculation becomes premature confirmation...again, sorry sean.
That's a whole lot of nondescript white guys!
I'm not sure that the WGOM is allowed to make fun of groups of nondescript white guys.
WGOM is a group of non descript white guys, and we make fun of each other all the time.
Explaining the joke tends to ruin the joke, Runner.
see, you're proving my point!
El rompe by La Liga.
Fun to see little banking town Bilbao in the mix.
nice interview with Craig Finn talking about baseball and why Target Field music sucks nowadays.
The banner image is from Lollapalooza 2007. I was there. I didn't know The Hold Steady at the time, but I stopped and watched because he was wearing a Gardy jersey.
Oh, at first I thought it was the IDS Tower back there. (Without really looking at details.) I thought how cool it was that they had a concert outside near the Dome or TF.
oh oh
So much for 75 wins.
There's no way a healthy Baker was getting 75 wins - what are you smokin', man?!
Career wins. Duh!
well, okay, but you didn't answer my question
The Onion nails another headline:
the 'Community' send up of Ken Burns/PBS style documentaries (complete with Keith David (were you in The Cape?) voice over) is the one of the best things Ive seen on tv this year.
I will never forgive Burns for the tenth inning.
I really like Stan Van Gundy.
Dwight Howard may be a very dominant physical specimen, but he's no match Mr. Van Gundy when it comes to candidness.
Is this you, Greek?