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Cup of Coffee: April 6, 2007

Cup of Coffee A series with the pale hosers should get people fired up this weekend!

This entry was posted by SBG on Friday, April 6th, 2007 at 8:11 am and is filed under Cup of Coffee. It is one of 3096 entries by the author. We are no longer accepting Letters to the Editor on this post.

18 comments to Cup of Coffee: April 6, 2007

  • zooomx
    April 6th, 2007 at 8:26 am

    I don't watch golf much, but normally, I am glued to the Masters, US Open and the Ryder Cup. This year, I am so fired up about baseball, that I didn't even watch a minute of the Masters on an off day for the Twins. I will be watching baseball this weekend.

    I am hoping Chris Heintz gets to catch part of a game, and AJ runs him over. Then Heintz pops him, gets suspended and heads down to the minors for the rest of the year. I wouldn't want Mauer or Redmond to risk an hand injury on taking out the punk.

  • Rhubarb_Runner
    April 6th, 2007 at 9:06 am

    Initially I was angered that Fox here in St. Louis is showing the Mets/Braves game here intead of the Twins, but then I remembered that Murphy holds reign over all things, including TV scheduling.

    btw, still in mourning over the Fighting Sioux loss. Unbelievable all the power play opportunities (for both teams) in the waning minutes. Strange, strange ending.

    • AMR
      April 6th, 2007 at 12:45 pm

      What a weird ending to that game. One thing I noticed for the first time is that the UND sweaters are not good looking. Is that their standard sweater? The tight fit looks funny (although I think that's what the entire NHL is doing next year) and the stripes down the arm looked pasted-on (maybe if they went from neck to cuff?). They can do so much better.

      Of course, if good sweaters were constant winners, Maine would never lose a contest.

  • SBG
    April 6th, 2007 at 9:08 am

    Big Mak's series preview will be here at 10. I've got my blather set for 12. Big day at the WGOM!

  • AMR
    April 6th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

    I now have a favorite announcing team for baseball games: the Rangers' team.
    I don't even know who it is, but as soon as I dialled up the game on Gameday Audio, I got a complete description of which uniforms both teams were wearing, down to the piping, and trim on letters and numbers. Cap was described something like: "Their caps are blue with a white 'T' this year, with a red button." Nice.

    Also, lost in the whole Matsuzaka thing, I feel very happy about how Greinke handelled himself in his return to MLB starting. Tough loss against a (potentially) strong batting team. Could he be comeback player of the year if he was never that established a player? I don't know whether he is using antidepressants, but I feel like coining the term "Prozack."

    • AMR
      April 6th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

      Robinson Tejeda is being awesome for the Rangers. 7IP, 2H, 3BB, 0R, 77 pitches (45 strikes), 1K 4 ground outs, 16 fly outs(!).

    • Kevin G
      April 6th, 2007 at 9:07 pm

      Indeed, Eric Nadel and Victor Rojas are very good. I've thoroughly enjoyed them since we've been down here (4 1/2 years); before I got XM, I listened to almost all the Rangers games. Nadel always provides a detailed description of both teams' unis, so much so that my wife cracks up every time she hears the description--not because it's done poorly but because she thinks it's odd that a guy is so concerned with someone's wardrobe.

      Isn't it one of life's little joys to find good opposing broadcasters? The ChiSox provide no such joy.

  • SBG
    April 6th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    From BP unfiltered on yesterday's minor league opening day:

    Kyle Waldrop, rhp, Fort Myers (Twins): 5 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 7 K. He did face 17 batters, and he plunked a pair. One of the few pitching disappointments in the system of late, if he comes around and becomes the pitcher the Twins think he can, it’s just riches on top of riches.

    • brianS
      April 6th, 2007 at 3:37 pm

      Yea. Saw this on Seth's blog (I think). He hit his pitch count, so he was done despite the no-no.

    • twayn
      April 6th, 2007 at 3:50 pm

      One of these years the winter meetings are going to be just like the big meeting of the five families in The Godfather:

      "Don Ryan has all of the pitchers in baseball in his pocket. He must share them with the rest of us. Certainly he can present a bill for their services. After all, we're not communists. But refusing to share is not the act of a friend. Don Ryan must let others wet their beak."

  • brianS
    April 6th, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    Wow. Just wow. Marc Stein's interview with KG:

    Q: So one of the problems …

    A: Not having enough veterans here. [And] no disrespect towards Case [ex-Wolves coach Dwane Casey], I enjoyed my two years with him, but when you're trying to build, when you're trying to win, you got to have … there's a lot of good coaches out there. There's a lot of great coaches out there.

  • brianS
    April 6th, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    the hot new thing in roster management: the switch pitcher.

    Just imagine if Terry Ryan had one of these. He could carry three catchers every year

    • CarterHayes
      April 6th, 2007 at 11:33 pm

      I wonder if he has to split his warm-up tosses between arms, or if they give him the full amount for each?

      • Rhubarb_Runner
        April 7th, 2007 at 6:54 am

        It's in the article: he only gets the same allotted number of warmups, and he has to split them up. He also has to decide first on which side to throw from before a switch hitter decides to bat right or left.

        • spycake
          April 7th, 2007 at 8:11 am

          This would be a nightmare to keep score, wouldn't it? A game log at Retrosheet would have to keep noting which arm he's throwing with, or at least every time he decides to change (which is frequent, according to the article).

  • Kevin G
    April 6th, 2007 at 9:27 pm

    Quote of the day: At cold, cold Kaufmann Stadium, Royals' broadcaster Ryan Lefebvre describes the Tigers' late-inning strategy: "The Tigers are trying to figure out what the Royals have up their sleeves. What they have up their sleeves is more sleeves."