(Mailing In A) Post-Game Notes
Just wanted to point out the interesting little notes section that was tacked onto the bottom of the Canadian Press recap of tonight’s game. I’d change Shi Davidi’s words a little, so it didn’t seem so goddamn lazy, but fuck it.
Blue Jays RHP Shaun Marcum (elbow surgery) threw two innings in a simulated game Wednesday in Florida and may start pitching in minor-league games early next month. “Optimistically, we could see Marcum this year,” said GM J.P. Ricciardi. “That's barring any setbacks.” ... The news is less good for pitchers Dustin McGowan (shoulder surgery) and Casey Janssen (shoulder). McGowan has yet to progress beyond playing catch in his rehab while Janssen's return isn't on the horizon. ... Top prospect Travis Snider (back) began taking BP recently and Ricciardi expects him to rejoin triple-A Las Vegas next week. ... Reds manager Dusty Baker ate lunch at a restaurant co-owned by former NHLer Shayne Corson, and the two ended up discussing the anxiety issues first baseman Joey Votto is working through. Corson struggled through panic attacks anxiety during his career and Baker found their conversation as enlightening as it was serendipitous. “Way coincidental,” said Baker. “Almost as if it was planned.”
Also, do you fucking believe it took me this long to catch a foul ball? And by "catch" I mean corral enough to direct it down to my feet and then pick it up.
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What? You didn't bring a glove? Doesn't everyone?
Fuck you for getting a foul ball. I've gone to hundreds of games, and never even been close. My fuckin' 8 year-old nephew got a foul ball the first game he went to, and it wasn't even given to him by someone.
Big deal.
I caught a screaming liner clean with my left hand while holding a full beer in my right.
Not a single sud spilled.
Cue applause.
4th game i went to this year. Made my way into the seats on the 1st base side. (very drunkenly) caught a ball off the bat of Vernon Wells in the 10th inning.
Way to go Stoeten. I was at the first two games of the Jay's three-shot against the Red Sox, and a Lyle Overbay tip hit the glass hand-rail where my head would have been had I not gone to the bathroom 5 minutes before. I like to think I might have been able to squeeze it, but the more I think about it the luckier I realize I was to have been out of my seat at the time.
please don't rush back Marcum, we need some durability out of these guys.
please rush back marcum, we need some fucking playoff games this year
Hey, I heard you guys are the authority on all things Wilner. He's joking when he says Rolen picked the ball out of the air when it was 16 or 17 feet up, right? There is no evidence of humour in the sentence but come on... He would have to have no understanding of the length of a foot to think that.
Also, the way you have comments now doesn't let me paste which is all kinds of annoying. And yes I'm using Firefox.
Dave, that comment thing is an intermittent problem for some, I think. Not something all the time. Not sure what the fuck it is, but it doesn't have anything to do with the new comment setup, it's something else.
Also... seriously???
I catch a foul ball every few games....not a big deal.
I've got two batting practice balls from the old Kingdome. One tossed to me by the late John Cerutti, and the second was a one-hopper down the line that I had to reach over for at the foul pole.
I don't know what the odds are of a foul ball being within a 10-foot radius for any given fan, but I watched a friend take a line drive off her noggin near the foul pole in the Big Owe in the final Expos season (her first game too). She and her family were the only people for miles around in there, so even though I was on the other side of the stadium, I could tell it was her. Really sucked.
Foul balls on my record, both pop-ups.
Ernie Whitt - in Cleveland
King Carlos - in Chicago
from Griff's blog:
The big news of the week turned out to be that Brad Pitt’s movie version of Moneyball was cancelled pretty much on the eve of production. What a shock. There is no truth to the rumour that the major issue was in finding someone to play then-A’s vice-president J.P. Ricciardi and that John Turturro and Pinocchio both turned down the role.
seriously? next time someone rags on bloggers for not having to face the players they write about, someone should point to this comment as evidence that having access doesn't preclude you from writing things you'd never say to anyone's face*.
fuck off Griff. the joke is not even particularly funny.
*for fear of getting your eye poked out by his beak
You wont need a glove to catch my foul balls.
I've been going to Jays games for close to 20 years and I've never caught a ball of any sort, so consider yourself a lucky man Stoeten.
Last season I flipped my lid when I went to a game with a friend and sat in the left field bleachers as opposed to the right field bleachers where my flex pack tickets are for the season. She had free tickets.
"Mighty" Joe Inglett proceeded to hit a homerun shot off the seat I sit in almost all year. Not a single fan over there (we were playing Minnesota), that ball could have been mine!
Also, Mickey Tettleton almost killed me with a screamer down the line when I was a kid.
I was distracted, as most kids are, turned around to look back at the game and saw this ball fly right over the top of my head. My heart almost exploded. LOL.
If you want BP balls just go to the game early and hit up the 100 level left outfield seats. I picked up 7 or 8 balls the one time I went. Gave most of them away...
Were you in left field last night? Tons of balls hit into foul territory out there. I was in 127 in various rows - a few balls came quite close to us. I was hoping my friend would get pegged as he was sleeping through most of the first four innings. Alas it was not to be.
you boys can all play with my balls
So this Knudson guy, does he know something we don't or is he just breath-takingly arrogant. (check the comments)
http://www.examiner.com/x-2170-Colorado-Sports-Examiner~y2009m6d24-What-have-we-learned-about-the-Colorado-Rockies
Similar near death experience from Dante Bichette in Cinci. He hit a rope to dead center that I totally ole'd. In my defense, it was April and quite chilly. I was pretty sure it was going to break me, so I half-assed tried to corral it off to my side. Sent it about 15 rows behind me.
Wow, cd. I left him a nice message. That comment of his was pretty unbelievable.
Hahah, holy shit! Nice readin' ya, Griff, I hope you weren't too close to your full pension.
The script to Moneyball has been posted on the net. I'll post a link when I get into work assuming nobody's done it in the meantime.
The amazing thing to me, Stedron, is that he says the Jays need to get younger and lower payroll as though the Rockies are the youngest, cheapest team in the fucking league.
Colorado
Average Age: 27.4
2009 Salary: $74.8 million
Toronto
Average Age: 28.8
2009 Salary: $80.5 million
I mean...really??
Then he speaks of "writing with emotion" when trashing the first 2 comments, when that's the only explanation of how this nonsense could have been conceived in the first place. It's this guy's wish, unfortunately for him, it's total fantasy.
I sent the link to MLB Trade Rumors for shits and giggles, Ben actually responded and said he still sees no signs that Doc's available - which we all pretty much knew - but it's still nice to hear from those guys.
Speaking of Griff, did everyone read his fun-filled piece today? As per usual, the comments are filled with some highly intelligent dudes who say that it's all JP's fault and Cito is the man (excluding of course the fact that that JP hired Cito).
Is there an "official" way to call Griff out on the BJ roids accusation?
It wasn't JPs idea to hire cito.
Yeah, that's pretty awesome. Knudson's 'mediocre at best' MLB career app. 15 years ago, if that is what he's referring to as the basis for "knowing how these things work" ,is pretty shits and giggles too.
Knudson's talking out his ass, I'd imagine-- the same way people here dream of adding every local/Canadian star player.
As for Griff-- JP knows what he says, and Griff goes and faces him every day.
Also, do you fucking believe it took me this long to catch a foul ball? And by "catch" I mean corral enough to direct it down to my feet and then pick it up.
I thought the only thing you catch was a cold, or AIDS from Parkes! HEYO!
Fuck off Parkes
Richard Griffing has another gem of an article.
I expected you guys to have ripped a huge chunk out of it already. This guy is just stupid.
http://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/article/656331
Gotta love how defensive a bunch we are. Every blog that posts some trade rumour/speculation about Halladay and we're flying over en masse to call bullshit. We really are an insecure fanbase.
Nicknack -- has nothing to do with his raising the possibility of Roy being traded. That happens all the time. Knudson pulled a douchebag move with his "I know how this stuff works a lot better than you do" and deserves to have Jays fans shitting down his throat for being so goddamn condescending.
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/images/column/62509/Moneyball.pdf
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