The Wild Card race tightens, the Cards' winning steak ends, the Rays clinch top seed, Devin Williams joins a big dumb club, and which player was giving vaccine bribes?
I think John Smoltz has an inside track to the Big Dumb Guy Energy crown. He missed a start after burning himself with an iron. Accidents happen, but … he was ironing a shirt that he was wearing.
That "most HR by a second-baseman" record was previously 43 by Davey Johnson for Atlanta in '73. That one always interested me because Johnson's second highest for a season was only 18 HR. A bit like Brady Anderson jumping to 50 HR when he was playing for Johnson's Orioles...except not really the same reasons, allegedly.
In Atlanta’s game, Ozzie Albies reached the 30 HR 100 ribbie 100 run plateau. At 5’8” he is the second shortest player to ever do so. But clearly when adjusted for era, his Height+ is shorter than Hack Wilson.
Today/yesterday was the first time in baseball history that anyone has written that line. The previous San Francisco record was 103 wins in 1993, Barry Bonds and Matt Williams and Robby Thompson in Dusty Baker's first season as a manager. They missed the playoffs.
What is with the rash of guys with hand injuries right before the post season? Okay, two isn’t actually a meaningful number but that doesn’t stop me from pretending it is.
Do you know that Onion article about the worst person you know saying something you agree with? That’s how I feel every time FP Santangelo complains about how damn slow the Nats’ relievers (a.k.a. the cavalcade of gas cans) work. The food is bad, but the service is slow. I was reduced to actually rooting for the rain once the game became official after the delay.
PS Am I the only one who felt like the last line of the Jedediah Chronicles was also Craig’s not so fond farewell to the bit?
PPS My son is doing a teaching internship by helping to direct a high school production of a Midsummer Night’s Dream - with the setting brought forward to Athens Georgia … they have been looking for music suggestions and you can bet I am putting Nightswimming on the table!
Alasdair Gray, Scotland's greatest fiction writer, didn't have his first novel published until 1981, when he was 47 (but it had been in gestation for about a decade). He went on to have around 25 more books (novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction works) published before he passed away in 2019 at the age of 85.
brb building a time machine and traveling 25 years in the past to show 23 y/o Craig the first paragraph of today’s newsletter intro without any context and before I return to the hellscape apocalypse of 2021, I’ll mysteriously say, “thanks…for the cup of coffee”.
My most favorite weird athlete non-sports injury is when a hockey player (I think it was Brent Sopel) injured his back bending over to pick up a cracker. His kid had dropped it on the floor from his high chair - and this is why every family with small children assuming there are no allergies preventing it should get a dog to clean up cheerios and goldfish crackers from the floor. Haha.
I saw don’t start bits you haven’t planned for open for Industrial Shithouse at Wembley.
I think John Smoltz has an inside track to the Big Dumb Guy Energy crown. He missed a start after burning himself with an iron. Accidents happen, but … he was ironing a shirt that he was wearing.
That "most HR by a second-baseman" record was previously 43 by Davey Johnson for Atlanta in '73. That one always interested me because Johnson's second highest for a season was only 18 HR. A bit like Brady Anderson jumping to 50 HR when he was playing for Johnson's Orioles...except not really the same reasons, allegedly.
In Atlanta’s game, Ozzie Albies reached the 30 HR 100 ribbie 100 run plateau. At 5’8” he is the second shortest player to ever do so. But clearly when adjusted for era, his Height+ is shorter than Hack Wilson.
"This was win number 104 for San Francisco. "
Today/yesterday was the first time in baseball history that anyone has written that line. The previous San Francisco record was 103 wins in 1993, Barry Bonds and Matt Williams and Robby Thompson in Dusty Baker's first season as a manager. They missed the playoffs.
What is with the rash of guys with hand injuries right before the post season? Okay, two isn’t actually a meaningful number but that doesn’t stop me from pretending it is.
Do you know that Onion article about the worst person you know saying something you agree with? That’s how I feel every time FP Santangelo complains about how damn slow the Nats’ relievers (a.k.a. the cavalcade of gas cans) work. The food is bad, but the service is slow. I was reduced to actually rooting for the rain once the game became official after the delay.
PS Am I the only one who felt like the last line of the Jedediah Chronicles was also Craig’s not so fond farewell to the bit?
PPS My son is doing a teaching internship by helping to direct a high school production of a Midsummer Night’s Dream - with the setting brought forward to Athens Georgia … they have been looking for music suggestions and you can bet I am putting Nightswimming on the table!
Alasdair Gray, Scotland's greatest fiction writer, didn't have his first novel published until 1981, when he was 47 (but it had been in gestation for about a decade). He went on to have around 25 more books (novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction works) published before he passed away in 2019 at the age of 85.
brb building a time machine and traveling 25 years in the past to show 23 y/o Craig the first paragraph of today’s newsletter intro without any context and before I return to the hellscape apocalypse of 2021, I’ll mysteriously say, “thanks…for the cup of coffee”.
Those baseball idiots just weren't using their heads, unlike Gus Frerotte.
My most favorite weird athlete non-sports injury is when a hockey player (I think it was Brent Sopel) injured his back bending over to pick up a cracker. His kid had dropped it on the floor from his high chair - and this is why every family with small children assuming there are no allergies preventing it should get a dog to clean up cheerios and goldfish crackers from the floor. Haha.
Hey Craig, that footnote about the hotel being a sanctuary seems like another ‘unwritten’ rule of baseball, why should anyone care about that one ?
“That’d be like Buzz Aldrin holding up a liquor store in his space suit.”
The difference between this hypothetical and Klete Keller: There’s not a jury on Earth that could convict Buzz Aldrin.