casimir

Lots of challenges on balls & strikes tonight.

Take away Keith’s two hits and the entire lineup is a large black hole tonight.

I don’t mind aggressive base running. If it yields more outs than runs, then obviously they need to rethink things. But they’re not there yet, so I’m not worried.

The timing of your link is fantastic. I read through the same for Mickey Lolich, Jim Price, and Norm Cash yesterday.

I work in the packaged foods industry. Year over year inflation for my specific location that produces shelf stable canned goods is 8.5% for materials in the bill of materials.

Might as well sweep the series.

Nope, not if, when.

Pretty sure it happened last season after the opening series against the Dodgers.

What do I know, I’m a hack. But his plate appearances are so good so far. Good balance at the plate. Good eye for the strike zone. Can get deep into counts (fouled off quite a few with 2 strikes) or get in and rip it early. Yes, small sample size. Teams probably don’t have enough of a book on him. But very encouraging early on.

Yeah, I’ve wondered that, too. Or does Whitaker go to 3B and Trammell to 2B? Didn’t Whitaker start with the Tiger organization as a 3B and then was moved to 2B? I know later in his career he was going to move to 3B for some 2B prospect that was never to be.

Must’of been the kilt.

Would you prefer them run station to station? Sometimes in a competition one side takes risks but the other side does better. That’s the nature of it.

Not great nicknames.

I want to say the best nicknames aren’t derivatives of given names. Cool Papa. Big Unit. Babe. Catfish. Pudge. Three Finger. But then some are so simplistic and the literal sound of the nickname is good. Something like Yaz. Or Teddy Ballgame.

Ok, Boomer.

It’s Friday in Lent. I’ll wager good money Bert is wearing a kilt.

Please, no KMac. That’s cheap and plasticy.

The eyeglasses, the hair, some of the jackets. it was amusing to see footage of the snowflakes. Anymore it seems like anytime a game encounters that, it never happened in the past. Oh, and the low maintenance of the playing field. No special patterns mowed into the lawn.

Wearing pants with no fly?

Wow, Julio Franco was in the Highlights. Has he retired yet?

One of the things I like to see happen in the first game of a series is dig into the opponent’s bullpen and immediately affect availability for the rest of the series. This is the first series of the season, so there might be limited results for tonight and tomorrow. But given how there seems to be so much one inning specialization in the modern game and considering how baseball is such a 50/50 proposition on any given day, build up some advantages for the rest of a series if/when you can.

Might as well win the series.

Maybe the voice control technology is confused by your accent not requesting a Red Sawx game?

The nice thing about this game being a night game after yesterday’s day game is that the Padres can restabilize the RF corner wall that McGonigle nearly knocked down in his 2nd PA.