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August 1st, 2007 by SBG
Yeah, KG's gone, but we still have Johan. For a while.
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By the time Brad Johnson was Gus Frerotte's age, he couldn't even lead a horse to water.
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In Response to Cup of Coffee: January 5, 2008,
Rhubarb_Runner wrote: Speaker for the Dead -- good call. I think holding Carl to task for something over 60 years ago is a stretch when it could be brought up that he was willing to have his team…In Response to Telly Savalas -- Some Broken Hearts Never Mend,
brianS wrote: Don Johnson and David Soul??? I'm hurt. Those guys were disco-hack TV cops turned horrific balladeers. Telly was a Monster.In Response to 2008-09 Game 33: Minny at the Second City,
brianS wrote: Whoa, whoa, whoa! "Getting to the rim"??? In the high school gurls sense, or do you mean he was off the floor more than the thickness of typing paper?My favorite bit, which I assume is tongue-in-cheek:
The Giants would become overnight favorites to win the NL West with Ramirez and the pitching staff they have already assembled.
As for the Dodgers, no worries, they would still have Juan Pierre to fill Ramirez's shoes in left field.
Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks according to a new study published by the Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. This was basically a case-control study, comparing heart attack rates in Pueblo, CO to two control sites (Pueblo County outside the city limits; and El Paso County, which includes Colorado Springs).
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2 years, $17.5M, reportedly, with options and stuff, plus they give up a first-round pick to Colorado. Last year, league average ERA for a relief pitcher was 4.09. Marcel the Monkey projects Fuentes to have a 3.69 FIP next year. Probably an overpay, but there's plenty of upside.
Even though Joe C bothers with errors and fielding percentage, I give him a bunch of credit for pointing this out and at least throwing some RZR/OOZ in there.
19 of Bora's 20 free agents remain unsigned. Will Boras wane in his influence? Will Mark Teixeira get a bazillion dollars? Stay tuned.
ESPN reports that Yankee Stadium bleacher seats for exhibition opener to cost 25 cents. Cool enough. But it also reports that some seats in the new stadium are priced at $2500 a game. That's over $200,000 for a season ticket.
The Paper of Record doles out sage advice on Grabbing a Bite Between Flights at (or Near) Seven Airports.
Snowman declared a public nuisance. Will they lock him up in the Cooler?
Headline in Strib: Paris Hilton's ex busted for Fargo bar fight. Once you get past the obvious joke, you might wonder why this fact is newsworthy at all. I'm saying it isn't.
Seriously. In this universe, who names their kid "Adolf Hitler"?
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Jeff A replied on August 1, 2007 at 8:48:30 am
The Wessington Springs Owls qualified for the state amateur baseball tournament last night by defeating Four Corners 13-11 in twelve innings. The game went back and forth all the way, and was tied at six after nine innings. Each team scored once in the tenth to tie it at seven. The Owls scored six times in the top of the twelfth, and seemed to have the game put away, but Four Corners scored four in the bottom of the twelfth, and had the tying run at bat when the game ended. The Owls will play next week in the state tournament.
There will now be a pause while everyone else around here says, "Who cares?" But it was pretty big news in my town.
Andrew replied on August 1, 2007 at 9:31:17 am
Well, Johan's pissed.
Jeff A replied on August 1, 2007 at 9:35:35 am
Keeping up with the ex-Twins: This was mentioned somewhere else, I think, but Oakland has released Bobby Kielty.
SBG replied on August 1, 2007 at 10:53:45 am
The hits just keep on coming. Top Jimmy:
Banjo replied on August 1, 2007 at 11:13:14 am
C'mon, you can't tell me you don't love that line
SBG replied on August 1, 2007 at 12:22:35 pm
I'm expecting the FOTF to go all Mandelaro on Top Jimmy over that one.
Banjo replied on August 1, 2007 at 12:38:46 pm
I don't think Torri likes Lew as much as that other 28 year-old, light hitting, journeyman. I wonder why he wouldn't take offense to someone picking on Lewwww. Hmmmmmm.
Rhubarb_Runner replied on August 1, 2007 at 3:05:12 pm
Lew is not a bro. If anything, he is the anti-bro.
brianS replied on August 1, 2007 at 11:27:36 am
From Stark's post-deadline post-mortem:
AMR replied on August 1, 2007 at 11:32:29 am
JD will still be around to pinch-hit though, right?
BeenAroundAwhile Guy replied on August 1, 2007 at 11:45:26 am
Keeping up with the ex-Vikings: Culpepper signed a 1-year deal with the Raiders.
brianS replied on August 1, 2007 at 11:52:54 am
that's a weird one. The Raidahs now have two 250+ lb QBs (assuming Russell signs eventually soon), plus Josh McCown, acquired from detroit during the off-season to play the Steve DeBerg role (see Montana, Joe; Elway, John; Young, Steve; and Testaverde, Vinny).
SideshowTootie replied on August 1, 2007 at 1:40:15 pm
One of those three isn't quite like the others.
brianS replied on August 1, 2007 at 2:24:13 pm
one of those four, I think you meant
Big Mak replied on August 1, 2007 at 2:10:09 pm
The 100th anniversary of Walter 'Big Train' Johnson's major league debut is tomorrow.
Hey, they left out Scott 'Light Rail' Baker! SBG Nation still has work to do apparently.
Rhubarb_Runner replied on August 1, 2007 at 3:13:39 pm
Not for lack of trying. I think we need to get Gleeman on board as a first step.
Jeff A replied on August 1, 2007 at 3:01:15 pm
Keeping up with the ex-Twins: Cleveland has activated Aaron Fultz from the disabled list.
davidwatts replied on August 1, 2007 at 3:13:26 pm
today in baseball history
1985 - The Indians trade veteran P Bert Blyleven to the Twins for OF Jim Weaver, P Curt Wardle, and SS Jay Bell.
1986 - Minnesota's Bert Blyleven fires a 2-hitter and strikes out a club-record 15 batters to become the 10th pitcher with 3,000 career strikeouts. Kirby Puckett hits for the cycle to lead the Twins to a romp 10 - 1 over the A's.
Andrew replied on August 1, 2007 at 3:13:33 pm
My sister is starting college at Butler this fall and she's going to be on the swim team. We're all so proud of her.
Algonad replied on August 1, 2007 at 3:24:54 pm
It's not Drake but at least she's still a Bulldog!
Andrew replied on August 1, 2007 at 4:51:29 pm
Dad went to Columbus (IN) North - Bulldogs. Mom and Dad both went to Butler - Bulldogs. I've graduated from Algona High and Drake - Bulldogs. Now my sister is going to Butler - Bulldogs, and my brother is starting at AHS - Bulldogs. A lot of our stuff is multipurposed depending on who's doing what.
Algonad replied on August 1, 2007 at 11:28:40 pm
How did your sister end up being a competitive swimmer? Did they even have a swim team in Algona? Did she have to travel somewhere to train in the winter?
It's all the more impressive when you think that she didn't exactly come from the swimming capital of the world.
Andrew replied on August 1, 2007 at 11:59:05 pm
She gets it from my mom. Family legend has it that Mom could swim before she could walk. AHS has had a swim team since about my sophomore year, so her 6th grade year. They swim at the indoor pool of the Iowa Lakes campus in Emmetsburg during the school year and the Algona pool during the summer. She won a couple of medals at the conference meet in Humboldt on last Saturday. My little brother is a pretty good swimmer too, but I doubt he likes it enough to keep doing it after high school. My sister, however, could swim all day and not care. I probably could have been a good swimmer, I'm long and lean with a big wingspan, but I don't really like the water all that much, so I stayed away from swim team.
It's really even more impressive if you consider her knee surgery and 2, if not 3, shoulder surgeries, plus a slight heart condition. Even more, she had retinal bleeding and had to have Lasik and almost lost vision in one eye. Considering all she's been through, I don't know how she kept up. The knee was a direct result of the breast stroke kick. I'm not sure if her shoulder was directly caused by swimming or not, since I had the same surgery and never swam, but I know the butterfly stroke didn't help at all. She's been such a trooper through everything (even an emergency appendectomy on Christmas this year) and it's pretty amazing. So proud of my sister.
Jeff A replied on August 1, 2007 at 3:37:53 pm
That's quite an accomplishment. Go Butler!
Algonad replied on August 1, 2007 at 3:46:36 pm
Terry Ryan on http://www.kfan.com right now.
Rhubarb_Runner replied on August 1, 2007 at 3:53:02 pm
You're going to be in StL for a ballgame, and instead of asking a fellow Citizen, you go fishing on Gleeman's site for advice? I'm hurt.
Algonad replied on August 1, 2007 at 3:54:26 pm
Not much was interesting. He said Tolbert is near ML-ready and will be up by the end of the year. He said he'd make the Castillo trade even if he had multiple years left on his contract. He said he looked at trades as both a seller and a buyer but thought he'd have to give up too much. He said 7 games out is a long way out.
ubelmann replied on August 1, 2007 at 3:59:00 pm
Jesse Lund has notes here. Is it true that TR likened the Castillo dump to the Lohse dump? Reading that made me laugh out loud, simply because I have trouble seeing many Twins fans viewing it that way.
kg2005 replied on August 1, 2007 at 4:13:16 pm
Lohse was just so easy to hate.
BeenAroundAwhile Guy replied on August 1, 2007 at 4:20:14 pm
Lohse was a d-bag. Does this mean that management secretly hated Castillo as well?
twayn replied on August 1, 2007 at 4:26:32 pm
I tried to like Lohse for a long time. He'd have these flashes when he looked so promising, and I'd think he'd eventually mature and be a solid starter for us. But eventually his crappy attitude really soured me on him and I was perfectly happy to see him go. But you can't seriously compare his situation with Castillo's. That's just insulting to anyone with intelligence who follows this team.
spycake replied on August 1, 2007 at 4:42:10 pm
Let's not take the man out of context. It appears he only compared Lohse to Castillo in the sense that both were ready to be replaced from within. If I recall, Bonser was the guy who stepped into the rotation for Lohse, and since then, he's been a pretty fair replacement.
Hopefully he meant Casilla was capable sooner rather than later. We'll see.
ubelmann replied on August 1, 2007 at 4:44:51 pm
Let’s not take the man out of context.
Reading my comment, it sure looks like I was asking for context.
twayn replied on August 1, 2007 at 5:00:02 pm
I'll admit I didn't hear the context of TR's remarks, but if that's the context then I'd like to hear his reasoning for signing Ortiz and Ponson this year at a cost of $4.1 million when there were better options in Baker, Garza, and Perkins (and maybe even Slowey) already within the organization. That reasoning seems contradictory to me.
Algonad replied on August 1, 2007 at 11:26:45 pm
Maybe the funniest line from Aaron Gleeman's comments ever:
As for KG & the Big Trade, at least you are trying to be positive. Grandpa Sports is so very frusterating to read anymore because of all his negitivity.