Here in DC we have the “Gio”: 4.2 IP and ~100 pitches with 2 runs on 5+ hits and 2+ walks - but you leave with the lead despite two runners on as your skipper goes to the pen. It’s always good for a standing O for the fans behind the Nats dugout.
Thanks for the shoutout, Craig. I’m small-time enough that it is always exciting to see myself mentioned, but as you said, it being mentioned without my name is a sign that it’s caught on in a significant way. That’s more than I ever hoped for during the years before Baseball-Reference, when I was keeping track of ones I could find in an old notebook. Seeing Wainwright mention the feat, and in a way that implies a lot of pitchers are familiar with it, is pretty dang cool.
But how can you tell in advance whether the Santana/Thomas sequel will be one of the ill-advised or one of the better than the originals? They could have decided "The first Godfather won Best Picture, maybe we shouldn't mess with it and have a sequel".
- No rain at all in NYC except at game times two days running. As if the clouds were indeed gathering for the Mets. Probably a good thing last night was rained out, since both times used every pitcher in sight. I think the Nats even used the ghost of Walter Johnson.
- Is Adam Wainwright underappreciated? He sure seems to keep going, if nothing else.
- That article on "ethnic foods" has a photo that shows the "kosher" sign but doesn't actually mention the weird little Jewish food section in markets across the nation, in both places where Jews make up a large part of the population (and usually shop in kosher stores) and places where Jews are as rare as hen's teeth. And "Jewish" food usually means matzah ball mix, a few Israeli brands of cookies, and kosher grape juice if we are lucky. It represents a very narrow definition of Jew, and when we travel and are looking for groceries, it rarely has anything we want. Not that in this day we can't find a decent selection of kosher food in most markets (or an actual kosher market where we travel). I sort of doubt that any Jews who really care about being kosher would miss these items if they vanished from the shelves. Well, except the grape juice, since it's hard to find kosher wine to use for the sacramental prayers on the sabbath.
I'm sure the Arizona Bowl will be OK. They can replace the Pima County sponsorship with Cyber Ninjas.
I wonder if we will see any articles about people who were at WTC on 9/11 and who didn't die. I was not in the buildings but very close at the time the planes hit. The whole thing was surreal, and the scars of the day remain with me, and it was not nearly as harrowing as for the people who had to get out of the buildings. I'd like very much to read about the effects on them 20 years later.
Are there any baseball hats you won't wear? I tend more towards Minor League ones or baseball styled caps from places I've been. I'm wearing one from Grumpy Old Men brewing in the North Georgia mountains as I type this.
Field of Dreams came out when I was an 8-year-old Iowan who lived less than two hours from Dyersville. I loved baseball and basically only paid attention to the baseball parts (and got scared to death by the voices).
And I have never considered - not even once - that the final game of catch was touching and happy because of any other reason than his dad was dead, he missed him, and he got to see him again.
My dad is alive and well (and a subscriber here!), but it isn't hard to imagine the sadness and missing I would feel if he was gone. And I love picturing that final scene with the two of us. I am sure, that even though we haven't played catch in 25 years, our love of baseball would lead us to stand with our gloves on and bitch about the Cubs. It would be perfect.
Anyway, FoD is about grief, Iowa, and baseball to me. I love it unabashedly because it is a simple movie. It requires no psychological evaluation to love it or to hate it, but maybe one is needed for those who argue about it? :-) Looking forward to the game tonight and hope it is an entertaining spectacle.
While "Smooth" is ultimately an okay song, I guess, in a bland inoffensive way, it forces me to remember the "Vinny Castilla plays for the Braves in 2004/05" era and that's just nothing I want to re-live.
The international aisle part reminded me of that time the President of the United States and Trump White House administration staffer Ivanka Trump used their official positions to promote Goya products because the CEO kissed Trump’s ass a few days before, and faced no consequences for it as always, as will also probably be the case with the insurrection and his tax fraud shit, because nothing matters anymore.
Like Craig, I only sporadically watch Jeopardy these days and only caught a few of the guest hosts. I did watch Joe Buck host last night and - holy moley - he was abominable. And, I’m mostly ambivalent to his sportsball broadcasting work! He used his Randy Moss “that was a disgusting act” volume for all 22 minutes and threw in the worst Rodney Dangerfield impression in history of humanity after a correct response. It’s been more than 12 hours and I’m obviously still shaken.
Craig: I have some thoughts on Field of Dreams, but I'm reluctant to post them here as it's quite wordy, and I feel like I push those boundaries too often by being long-winded.
Kinda feel that an additional qualification for a 'Maddux' should be that no pitch is thrown above 95 mph. But that's just me.
Here in DC we have the “Gio”: 4.2 IP and ~100 pitches with 2 runs on 5+ hits and 2+ walks - but you leave with the lead despite two runners on as your skipper goes to the pen. It’s always good for a standing O for the fans behind the Nats dugout.
Would love to hear other teams’ eponyms…
One assumes Mike Richards is also much cheaper to hire as Jeopardy host than some well known star, which could have been a factor as well.
Thanks for the shoutout, Craig. I’m small-time enough that it is always exciting to see myself mentioned, but as you said, it being mentioned without my name is a sign that it’s caught on in a significant way. That’s more than I ever hoped for during the years before Baseball-Reference, when I was keeping track of ones I could find in an old notebook. Seeing Wainwright mention the feat, and in a way that implies a lot of pitchers are familiar with it, is pretty dang cool.
But how can you tell in advance whether the Santana/Thomas sequel will be one of the ill-advised or one of the better than the originals? They could have decided "The first Godfather won Best Picture, maybe we shouldn't mess with it and have a sequel".
Not to harp on a typo, but repairing a rift between a father and a sun sounds pretty fascinating. And Craig said he wasn't a sci-fi writer!
I don’t think it’s an official “Maddux” if the less-than-100 pitch shutout is accomplished against the Pirates, Orioles or D-Backs this year.
- No rain at all in NYC except at game times two days running. As if the clouds were indeed gathering for the Mets. Probably a good thing last night was rained out, since both times used every pitcher in sight. I think the Nats even used the ghost of Walter Johnson.
- Is Adam Wainwright underappreciated? He sure seems to keep going, if nothing else.
- That article on "ethnic foods" has a photo that shows the "kosher" sign but doesn't actually mention the weird little Jewish food section in markets across the nation, in both places where Jews make up a large part of the population (and usually shop in kosher stores) and places where Jews are as rare as hen's teeth. And "Jewish" food usually means matzah ball mix, a few Israeli brands of cookies, and kosher grape juice if we are lucky. It represents a very narrow definition of Jew, and when we travel and are looking for groceries, it rarely has anything we want. Not that in this day we can't find a decent selection of kosher food in most markets (or an actual kosher market where we travel). I sort of doubt that any Jews who really care about being kosher would miss these items if they vanished from the shelves. Well, except the grape juice, since it's hard to find kosher wine to use for the sacramental prayers on the sabbath.
I'm sure the Arizona Bowl will be OK. They can replace the Pima County sponsorship with Cyber Ninjas.
I wonder if we will see any articles about people who were at WTC on 9/11 and who didn't die. I was not in the buildings but very close at the time the planes hit. The whole thing was surreal, and the scars of the day remain with me, and it was not nearly as harrowing as for the people who had to get out of the buildings. I'd like very much to read about the effects on them 20 years later.
Are there any baseball hats you won't wear? I tend more towards Minor League ones or baseball styled caps from places I've been. I'm wearing one from Grumpy Old Men brewing in the North Georgia mountains as I type this.
Field of Dreams came out when I was an 8-year-old Iowan who lived less than two hours from Dyersville. I loved baseball and basically only paid attention to the baseball parts (and got scared to death by the voices).
And I have never considered - not even once - that the final game of catch was touching and happy because of any other reason than his dad was dead, he missed him, and he got to see him again.
My dad is alive and well (and a subscriber here!), but it isn't hard to imagine the sadness and missing I would feel if he was gone. And I love picturing that final scene with the two of us. I am sure, that even though we haven't played catch in 25 years, our love of baseball would lead us to stand with our gloves on and bitch about the Cubs. It would be perfect.
Anyway, FoD is about grief, Iowa, and baseball to me. I love it unabashedly because it is a simple movie. It requires no psychological evaluation to love it or to hate it, but maybe one is needed for those who argue about it? :-) Looking forward to the game tonight and hope it is an entertaining spectacle.
While "Smooth" is ultimately an okay song, I guess, in a bland inoffensive way, it forces me to remember the "Vinny Castilla plays for the Braves in 2004/05" era and that's just nothing I want to re-live.
The international aisle part reminded me of that time the President of the United States and Trump White House administration staffer Ivanka Trump used their official positions to promote Goya products because the CEO kissed Trump’s ass a few days before, and faced no consequences for it as always, as will also probably be the case with the insurrection and his tax fraud shit, because nothing matters anymore.
Like Craig, I only sporadically watch Jeopardy these days and only caught a few of the guest hosts. I did watch Joe Buck host last night and - holy moley - he was abominable. And, I’m mostly ambivalent to his sportsball broadcasting work! He used his Randy Moss “that was a disgusting act” volume for all 22 minutes and threw in the worst Rodney Dangerfield impression in history of humanity after a correct response. It’s been more than 12 hours and I’m obviously still shaken.
Craig: I have some thoughts on Field of Dreams, but I'm reluctant to post them here as it's quite wordy, and I feel like I push those boundaries too often by being long-winded.
Great. Now I'm going to be listening to The Kinks all day.