I actually did get the Amtrak Guest Rewards “Baseball City Bonus, viagra ” as described in this post in June, for the Chicago-Ann Arbor round trip I took with Levi earlier this month, even though no baseball was involved.
Category: misc
Posts that don’t quite fit into any other categories.
WWBD?
That’s What Would Bud Do? Thursday afternoon game that’s the home season finale. Unlikely to be well-attended, even though this year’s Brewers team has been a lot of fun to watch.
I’m guessing Bud would do . . . nothing. Adjust his hairpiece, maybe fire off a fax to the Wisconsin state legislature about how maybe the state should pay for the Brewers to have weekday games.
New Brewers ownership, however, is smarter. They’ve announced that tickets to that game will be free. Absolutely free. And they’ve already distributed 23,000.
If you’re going to be in Milwaukee September 29th, call the Brewers ticket office.
If you’re not going to be in Milwaukee September 29th . . . why not? What have you got to do that day that’s better than free baseball?
Bet you didn’t know Mudville was in New Jersey
Here’s an article about the mud that gets rubbed on the baseballs.
Motivation
Wonder how your favorite team keeps motivated over the long season?
Now you know.
PS
If I’m very, very lucky, I’ll get to see the Cardinals clinch their fifth division title in six years at Wrigley Field Thursday night.
Baseball-related Katrina note
Looks like the New Orleans Zephyrs got out of town okay, and their stadium, Zephyr Field, seems to have come through in good shape. (This is not a recent photo, but note the ad for Blue Bunny ice cream next to the scoreboard on the stadium facade — that’s the one thing in the picture that I support wholeheartedly.)
Ten games for Steroids, Six for Milk
A Marlins batboy has been suspended for attempting to
drink a gallon of milk on a bet before a game.
Many, many things about this story seem wrong to me.
The days they come, the days they go
Some days, you look out your office window and wish you’d taken the day off to go see the Cardinals and Cubs at Wrigley Field, like you used to always do back when tickets were more readily available after the first day of tickets sales and such outings didn’t, therefore, have to be so rigorously planned.
Other days, you don’t.
Suckah!
The gloy of the hidden ball trick was shewn forth again last night at the Marlins/Diamondbacks game. The simplicity of it was, as usual, its beauty: Mike Lowell took the throw from the outfield, then simply didn’t toss the ball to noted homophobe Todd Jones. Seconds later, he applied the tag to an unsuspecting Luis Terrero.
Harold Reynolds on Baseball Tonight broke it down nicely, pointing out the way Jones noticed what Lowell was up to and, instead of heading to the mound, casually circled it. One thing I learned from this is that, if the pitcher steps on the mound, the ball is dead; his presence on the mound suggests that he intends to pitch, and therefore being on the mound while the ball is elsewhere is, apparently, a no-no.
National goddam treasure Retrosheet.org has a list of all the known successful hidden ball tricks here. Ozzie Guillen, whom I believe Bill James pointed out as one of the dumbest baserunners ever, was caught three times. Fool Ozzie once . . .
Tales of baseball stupidity not involving Rafael Palmeiro
You know, I look at those nets over the stands behind home plate, and
sometimes they don’t look like they can even hold more than one baseball at a time, much less a person.
Sponsorships
It appears that Bob’s suggestion has been taken up. The Carmi Times Sports Department is now sponsoring Bob Sykes’s page at Baseball-Reference.com.
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