Hmm, let’s keep an eye on American Legion baseball in the Minneapolis suburbs. There’s a player for the North St. Paul Post 39 team who I feel I have some kinship with.
It’s always Friday at Dodger Stadium
Even when it’s Topps Tuesday. A portion of an ad from today’s L.A. Times…
Steve Trachsel
Last week the Orioles designated former Cub Steve Trachsel for assignment, which means that they have ten days to work out a trade or release him.
However, since it’s Trachsel, they’re going to take fifteen days.
Thank you, folks, thank you. I’ll be here all week . . . and if I were Steve Trachsel, I’d be here two!
Hit by pitch with the bases loaded: the most exciting play in baseball
And it’s even more exciting when it happens in the bottom of the 11th inning, thus becoming a walk-off hit by pitch, as it did in today’s Braves-Cubs game.
I watched this game because Levi e-mailed me this morning to tell me that WGN was doing a “retro” telecast to commemorate their 60th anniversary of broadcasting Cubs games, in time for me to use DirecTV’s web site to schedule my DVR to record it.
As it turned out, it was much less elaborate than when Fox gave the “retro” treatment to a Cubs-Dodgers game circa 2000. For the first two innings, WGN presented the game in black and white, with only a couple of camera angles; they also had their character generator on the simplest possible setting (white text only, but with a modern-day drop shadow), which continued through
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Also, this was the AT&T poll (which should have been the “Bell System” poll, but I know it can be hard getting sponsors to go along with such things):
Which of these new things are you enjoying the most?
A. Velcro
B. Vinyl 33-1/3 LP
C. Bikini
D. Scrabble
E. NASCAR
“Bikini” won in a landslide.
The Angels made me sick!
Levi was in town on business, and so were the Angels, which meant it was time for the first official Baseball-Related Program Activities event since the 2004 road trip. The hangers-on were Jason, and Levi’s co-worker Carrie.
When Edison International dropped their sponsorship of the stadium in Anaheim, their logos on the end of the seats were covered over — but you can’t stop people from scratching paint off, I guess.
Jim Leyland showed up himself to exchange lineup cards, but Mike Scoscia sent a lackey…
It had been announced earlier in the day that Anaheim would be hosting the 2010 All-Star Game…
My new camera is noticeably faster to actually take the picture once you press the shutter button than my old one was — making it easier to get shots like this…
Early mound meeting, since Angels pitcher Joe Saunders had given up three runs in the first inning…
They kept having to reset this video display in order to fix this problem…
The Amtrak noise meter, because nothing is as noisy as a train…
The rally monkey was invoked a little
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The final line (not quite final at this point, but I was anticipating)…
And finally, a picture to replace the one that’s been at the top of this blog since 2004, which I was sick of looking at…
No, the Angels didn’t literally make me sick. There was a stomach bug involved. For you fans of Jim Ellwanger illnesses that coincide with baseball games, I also had a stomach bug right around the time I traveled to Chicago and attended Opening Day 1997 at Wrigley Field — I spent an entire day lying on the floor of the dorm room of Levi’s future wife.
Rays awesomeness update
After a series sweep of the Orioles, ask the Rays are again alone in first place in the AL East. Their .600 winning percentage (30-20) is the best in the American League, and is tied with the Diamondbacks for best in baseball.
Goodbye!
Here’s the cover of the May 26 issue of Sports Illustrated…
At first, I thought I was looking at some major mistakes in the artwork, but then I realized, no, the action depicted is taking place in Bizarro World. (That was a little less clear on my subscription copy, which has the address label printed over the bizarro advertising in the lower right corner.)
When it says baseball, baseball, baseball on the label, label, label
I’ve taken advantage of some downtime at work and gone back through the history of baseballrelated.com to add labels (or, as the kids call them, “tags”) to all the posts. Now you can easily read all the posts here that contain some content related to Johnny Damon — including this one!
Only eight days until Levi and I see a baseball game together for the first time since the trip in August 2004.
The Searchers
I noticed today that around a dozen people had been led to my other blog this weekend by searching for “Jason Giambi thong.” So, steeling myself against the hideous assortment of possible discoveries that flitted through my clearly too-active mind, I plugged those terms into {a popular search engine that may or may not employ Jim} and discovered . . . this.
Apparently Giambi is the owner of a gold lame thong, which he dons when he feels the need for some supernatural help in breaking a slump. But that’s not the worst of it: he also has on occasion lent this thong to teammates who felt a similar need! Derek Jeter and Johnny Damon have both admitted to wearing it. Jeter told the Daily News,
“I had it over my shorts and stuff. I was 0-for-32 and I hit a homer on the first pitch. That’s the only time I’ve ever worn it.”
{Editorial note: wouldn’t you have expected “and stuff” to be in brackets?}
I’ll leave you with a hypothetical question for those Yankee fans out there: is winning worth this? Will you ever be able to sleep again, having pictured Jason Giambi in a gold thong? Would a quiet last-place finish really be so bad?
Almost as awesome as the Rays
Here’s an online art exhibition, of illustrations of old-timey baseball players, entitled Stealing Signs: Dead-Ball Era Baseball; Memories from My Last Life, 1927. And here’s an interview with the artist.
Unfortunately, this one is already sold, or I’d suggest it as something for the walls of the Rocketship (unless the walls are completely covered in books by now). There are a few other St. Louis players, though.
