Starters: Peavy (4-1, 3.03 ERA) v. Correia (4-2, 3.09 ERA)
NBB - your wish is granted.
WGOM Fitness: The March is On
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Minor Details: Games of 5/13
A good day for Chris Herrmann. Wildness hurts the Red Wings and Kernels. Angel Morales comes through for Fort Myers.
May 14, 2013: Hicks!
IT'S ALL HAPPENIIIIIING
Happy Birthday–May 14
J. L. Wilkinson (1878)
Ed Walsh (1881)
Alex Pompez (1890)
Earle Combs (1899)
Bob Thurman (1917)
Les Moss (1925)
Dick Howser (1936)
Tony Perez (1942)
Dick Tidrow (1947)
Dave LaRoche (1948)
Dennis Martinez (1955)
Hosken Powell (1955)
Pat Borders (1963)
Joey Cora (1965)
Larry Sutton (1970)
Roy Halladay (1977)
J. L. Wilkinson was the long-time owner of the Kansas City Monarchs.
Alex Pompez was the long-time owner of the New York Cubans.
We would also like to wish a very happy anniversary to Lucy and SBG.
They Might Be Giants – Tubthumping
I guess we're going with a little tour of my musical self-education this week... and today hits two of my favorites from high school. Flood was of seminal importance in my listening development, and I've been to more TMBG shows and own more TMBG albums than any other band (a fact made fairly easy by their significant catalog). Chumbawamba on the other hand? My brother got the CD just for "Tubthumping" and decided he didn't like anything else on it. I pretty much liked everything else on it (and I liked "Tubthumping" too). It was subversive and intelligent and, for anarchists, amazingly structured. Anyway, a year or two ago TMBG covered Chumbawamba and I love them even more for it.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhR1bI7ecT8
Also, it doesn't appear to be on Youtube, but you should go find Chumbawamba's cover of "New York Mining Disaster 1941." Hauntingly beautiful.
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Loading... 2013 Game 35 Recap: The Aaron Hicks Show 10, Sucky Sucky South Siders 3
Days since Joe Mauer's 30th Birthday: 24
Days since Aaron Hicks got his man bat out: 0
Days since Gladden called a coherent inning: imaginary number
I was in the car for the first 2 hours of this game, so the time in between Hicks' amazing catch and his second homer was spent walking from the car to the house. Listening to Gladden call a game is a lesson of keeping things remembered in your head plus having a healthy active imagination, but from what I gathered the Twins destroyed the Sox and then almost let it get away before a one man beatdown by the name of Hicks.
The innings I saw on TV were a lot more fun. Let's continue this.
2013 Game 35: Pale Hosers at Twins
I used to love to hate the White Sox, but that fiery passion has cooled considerably in the past few years. Now I just like to dislike them. For this I blame Ozzie Guillen, who somehow against all odds and expectations brought a new level of civility and respect to the formerly fierce and nasty rivalry. I blame Ozzie because this is America, and we all know that in America the way a person feels about anything can never, ever, ever be blamed on the person doing the feeling; it must be either God's will or somebody else's fault. Ozzie's outspoken admiration for the Twins' brand of baseball during his Chicago tenure cowed the South Side trash talkers, and for that I don't think I can ever forgive him.
Players of the Week
Rochester: Andrew Albers was 0-1, 0.00 in 12.1 innings (two starts). He gave up two unearned runs on eight hits and three walks while striking out ten. For the season, he is 0-2, 2.75, 1.25 WHIP with 9 walks and 34 strikeouts in 36 innings (seven starts).
New Britain: Danny Santana was 13-for-24 with three doubles, a triple, two walks, and four stolen bases. For the season, he is hitting .278/.298/.354 in 144 at-bats. Josmil Pinto was 11-for-28 with three doubles, three home runs, and two walks. For the season, he is hitting .338/.413/.577 in 142 at-bats.
Fort Myers; D. J. Baxendale was 1-0, 0.00 in fourteen innings (two starts). He gave up an unearned run on six hits and a walk while striking out sixteen. For the season, he is 5-0, 1.25, 0.78 WHIP with 7 walks and 41 strikeouts in 43.1 innings (seven starts).
Cedar Rapids: Adam Brett Walker II was 12-for-27 with four doubles, two triples, three home runs, and a stolen base. For the season, he is hitting .321/.369/.664 in 131 at-bats. Dalton Hicks was 10-for-23 with three doubles, a home run, and three walks. For the season, he is hitting .297/.372/.500 in 128 at-bats.
Minor Details: Games of 5/12
Tons of offense for Cedar Rapids, as Kernel hurlers pitch to the score. Rochester hangs on. A Rock Cats comeback falls short.