Cup of Coffee: June 30-July 1, 2007
Posted by SBG on Saturday, June 30th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
The year is half over.
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MLB.com's probables had "TBA" for Game 2 in NYC (Silva's start), while Santana is listed for Game 3.
Is there something afoot? I don't know why Silva would get skipped. I assume that if it's not Silva, it's Garza.
Still, it's weird.
It is pretty weird. Sinker suggested that perhaps Santana goes on 3 days rest and pitches on full rest the last day before the ASB (despite Santana being listed for Game 3.) I'm not sure the Twins are that creative or that willing to risk Santana's health, but I can't think of any other possibilities. Also, the Twins seem to generally have more of a 110 pitch cap for Santana than a 100 pitch cap, so the 94 pitch start yesterday did smell a little fishy.
Or some intern made a simple mistake and a TBA wound up there when they meant to put Silva there all along.
I guess the only other thing I can see is that they could give Slowey an extra day of rest and get Garza two starts before the ASB if they started Garza on the 3rd. Still, that would more or less take away a start from Silva and give it to Garza, and I don't see that the Twins would be so interested in getting Slowey an extra day of rest that they would try that.
Looks like their page has now been updated and has Silva listed as the Tuesday (Game 2 in NYC) starter.
truer words than these have never graced the pages of espn.com:
actually, Kreidler's piece is not all half-baked crap. but it is kinda ripe. "We're going to be voting in the years to come on impact as much as anything -- and that, to me, goes hand in glove with the concept of a Hall of Fame, not a hall of numbers."
soooo, does this mean that David Eckstein should be a first-ballot HOFer, closely followed by Darin Erstad? Both have intangibles that are off the charts (except that you can't really measure intangibles, right? I mean, they are intangible).
I used to think Mark Kreidler was a pretty good columnist when he worked for the Sac Bee (better than Marcos Breton, anyway, FWIW). I'm not quite sure what to think now.
This kills me:
Worthy of a conversation? If Randy Johnson retired after 2004, he would've been an obvious first-ballot Hall of Famer. If 5 Cy Youngs and a career like his doesn't get you into the Hall, what would? There's no conversation to be had: Johnson's an obvious inductee. It's not a problem with numbers, it's a problem with overly simplistic artificial statistical milestones.
hey, if you take the Unit with fewer than 300 wins, then you gotta take Rafe Palmeiro. It's in the union rules.
Worthy of a Hall conversation.
Heh.
Hall: "Would you like to be inducted?"
Johnson: "Sure, why not. Just get that @#$%! out of my face."
Hall: "Very well, then."
And so goes the conversation.
that was supposed to be "@#$%! camera"
Dude Alert! Big Lebowski showing on the local Fox outlet this evening.
"Dammit!!!!! ... uh, is there a Ralph's around here?"
"The year is half over."
Very pessimistic of you. An optimist would have written, "The year is half NOT over."
Sunday's events at the Wessington Springs 125th anniversary: community worship service; all-school reunion; tour of the Governor Vessey home; historical show (written, produced, and acted with local talent); kids' games at the park; amateur baseball (Springs Owls v. Four Corners). Big times!
The Twins play the Tigers on ESPN tonight. What's the over/under on the number of times Jon and Joe talk about the Yankees?
37.5