Archive for March 21st, 2007

Igawa (and Mo)

I saw him pitch last night.  He did much better, although I still had this uneasy feeling watching him.  It is very easy for him to lose his mechanics.  Sometimes it was his arm slot, sometimes it was his stride, other times I think he just plain lost focus.  As with most everyone else on [...]

Apparently Manny Needs the Money

Manny put his Jenn-Air grill on EBAY.  Apparently, $20M per year doesn’t go as far as it used to. 
 
You’d think he would just donate it to charity or something. I hope he reports the income to the IRS.

Ghost Writer, Cup of Joe

Nice, John.  Brings back memories of my Little League team, for whom I played second base behind the team manager’s son (Harvey Guggenheim)… a fat kid who had trouble bending over to scoop up a ground ball.  This is where and when I learned that life ain’t always fair.

Roundtable Features – Categories

I enabled categories.  You’ll see it on the left sidebar.  When you write a post, there is a category selection drop-down that lets you pick a category for your post.  By default, “Discussion” is selected.  No need to change this for a normal post.  Currently you can also choose “Cup o’ Joe” (please select if [...]

Ghost Writer, Cup of Joe

Cup of Joe- the Joe is a spin on Cup of Java, which is where more coffee came from before South America, I guess.
Down memory lane is my theme. When I started Little League at age 11, the entire local league only started that year. I had the first AB, first hit (single up the [...]

Daisuke

Very Interesting article about Daisuke by Tom Verducci. A lot of facts that may worry Yankee fans, but one fact that may worry Boston fans. In Japan, he pitched every six days not five days like in the US.