Is it the anniversary of my quitting smoking again already? It seems like I just did one of these, and this one crept up out of nowhere. Twelve years, dudes.
2014 Game 20: Twins at Rays
I'm posting this from work, so my usual deep, meaningful analysis will have to be eschewed.
Pelfrey vs. Odorizzi. If I were the pregame on-field reporter, I'd ask the opposing pitcher if his teammates make fun of him using "Over Easy" or if they just focus on the fact that "Odor" is in it. These are the things that keep me up at night.
Vintage Bhimsen.
Dude rocked. But has left us.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMpRu8yYjTA#aid=P-cjP4Vdfv4
Happy Birthday–April 23
Harry Coveleski (1886)
Elam Vangilder (1896)
Sunny Jim Bottomley (1900)
Dolph Camilli (1907)
Warren Spahn (1921)
Rheal Cormier (1967)
Jason Tyner (1977)
Andruw Jones (1977)
Carlos Silva (1979)
Sean Henn (1981)
April 23, 2014: Poor Bastard
The scorpion in my kitchen ceiling light is still kicking, though there's no food up there and I can't imagine he'll hang on for long. Even then, he's just going to sit up there and I'll get to look at his dead carcass for a while.
Game 19: Ace Matchup
Gibson (3-0, 0.93) vs. Price (2-1, 4.39)
I think its safe to call Gibson the ace of this "staff" at the 11% point of the season after three good outings, with that last one being pretty stupendous. It may have been somewhat smoke and mirrors, since he's not striking out a whole lot of guys at 4.7/9, so hopefully we aren't looking at a Blackburn type of situation. I don't think that is the case, but I'm not the most optimistic of sports fans. I mentioned it last night in the CoC, but if Gibson can keep this going the starters for next year might be halfway competent, which would be nice.
His poor opponent is David Price, who recently got knocked around by the punchless Yankees, who are just 22nd in runs scored, but, like, top 5 in dollars per run scored (possibly as high as #2 behind the Dodgers). He's striking a bunch of guys out, though, and has had a couple good outings with a couple bad outings. Hopefully today is one of the bad outings.
On an unrelated topic, I used a new hoppinh technique on Saturday that was kind of fun called first wort hopping. Making an IPA, I took the hops I was going to use near the end of the boil (where flavor/aroma hops are added) and put them in the kettle during the sparge before the boil. This is said to increase the utilization of the flavor/aroma acids in the hops. It simplified things, for sure, and I'm excited to see how it turns out.
Happy Birthday–April 22
Bob Smith (1895)
Taylor Douthit (1901)
Ray Benge (1902)
Lew Riggs (1910)
Mickey Vernon (1918)
John Orsino (1938)
Steve Jones (1941)
David Clyde (1955)
Moose Haas (1956)
Dave Schmidt (1957)
Terry Francona (1959)
Jimmy Key (1961)
Jack Savage (1964)
Mickey Morandini (1966)
George Williams (1969)
We would also like to wish a very happy birthday to rowsdower.
April 22, 2014: But…How Did He…
There's a scorpion inside the light on my kitchen ceiling.
Olivier Messiaen – Quatour pour la fin du temps
Messiaen wrote/performed this whilst in a work camp in WWII. Richar Nunemaker, Clarinet. Johnny Chang, Violin. Olive Chen, Cello. I-Ling Chen, Piano. Last time I heard this live was in Minny at the Bakken Museum with Bert Hara on the Clarinet.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpBHc8px_U
Chet Atkins & Leo Kottke – Sleepwalk
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5oExc78IKE