George Kirby
vs
Chris Paddack
Kirby is very good and an ideal for anyone that loathes walks. He had a Silvaesque 19 walks over 190 ⅔ innings last season. This year is more of the same with four walks in his 38 ⅓ innings. He's striking out a bit more than last year and also surrendered a mere two home runs.
(2 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)
Loading... Wow! What a two week span for Minnesota sports fans. Timberwolves running roughshod over the NBA Western Conference playoffs, a young and energetic MNUFC winning a bunch of games - including on the road this past Saturday against a real good Atlanta team. And of course the Minnesota Twins who have now won 13 out of their last 14 games. The last three of those wins against decent teams.
Emerson Hancock on the mound for the Mariners and he's one of those young guys who the book is still out on. Not a big strikeout guy, however. Bailey Ober up for the Twins and he keeps just doing his job. Last outing against the Whities wasn't super great but the bats and White Soxery picked him up.
Lousy weather in the morning should clear up for game time, so we can all relax in front of the radio this evening to take on a soothing baseball game after last night's late night basketball fun.
Freealonzo's "Take it to the Credit Union" surefire winner: Bailey Ober with six strikeouts today.
First pitch at 6:40
RIP ELO keyboardist Richard Tandy
(2 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... Vampy Weeks is back baby
(3 votes, average: 7.67 out of 10)Loading... (1 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... Natalia Lafourcade’s label has most of her live performances on lockdown. I’ve been wanting to share something of hers for years; KCRW finally came through for me.
(0 votes, average: 0.00 out of 10)Loading... As HJ pointed out in the Cup, this 10 game winning streak doesn't exactly make us feel like we're going to keep winning. I guess, in that regard, the test begins... now.
Tanner Houck, who has been very good, pitches for Boston. Chris Paddack who has been... present... pitches for the Twins.
This was the lullaby I most frequently sang to the Poissonnière, back when she was an age to need them fairly often.
(2 votes, average: 9.00 out of 10)Loading... The first Tom Russell tune I heard was “Gallo Del Cielo,” which stopped me in my tracks as a guy in my unit played it over a field telephone speaker out in the field. You couldn’t get much lower-fi than that delivery, but I was transfixed by the song. I wrote the performer & title down in my notebook and made a note to acquire it once I got back to the barracks. I jumped into the back catalogue pretty deep after that. The only other memory I have of the guy who introduced me to Tom Russell was him getting busted for trying to smuggle a confiscated Colt .38 Special back from Iraq.
I can’t find a version of “Gallo Del Cielo” online that does the studio recording justice, so instead I went with a live version of the initial track of Blood and Candle Smoke inspired by Tom’s experiences teaching in Nigeria during the Biafran War. This is a pretty fair introduction to how densely allusive his songwriting can be.
I don’t think Tom tours anymore and I’m not even certain he still plays shows. If he was coming remotely close to the People’s Republic I would be there. He’s one of my favorite living songwriters.
(2 votes, average: 9.00 out of 10)Loading... 
