Recent content by coolhandgopher

The baseball gods gaveth to Adell earlier this season with his 3 HR stealing catches in one game, and taketh with this effort last night.

Twins on the grid, and I chose all newbies over all Dead Presidents (Ron Washington would have gotten me there, but I’ve used him previously).

In Ron Guidry’s spectacular 1978 season, he went 25-3. His three losses were all to left-handers and all had the first name Mike-Caldwell, Flanagan, and Willis.

Aaron Gleeman posted this the other day Boxscore, a daily email newsletter from a guy named Jeff Blankenburg that provides the standings, league leaders, all the box scores and the following day’s pitching matchups. As Gleeman stated, it’s reminiscent of reading the sports section of our youth...

My immediate thought is that they would never, ever agree to a cap on the top end. It also makes me wonder how they would police the chicanery of deferred salaries, such as what the Dodgers are currently doing (If memory serves).

I was two days late in doing my re-watch--just too busy, but it corresponded with the last day of school where I'm at, so it did align pretty nicely as I pounded 1 Budweiser tall boy (my personal moon tower party these days). Some observations: * First time observation--when the conversation is...

And with that, you've chosen my viewing for tonight :cool:

For the old timers here, is Rojas reminiscent of Tom “The Blade” Hall?

Mickey Gasper pinch hitting for the Red Sox in a critical situation-we live in wondrous times!

You can track down Roger Angell's essay The Web of the Game at The New Yorker’s archives, his account of the game and considered one of the finest essays on the game of baseball.

It was Tom Quinlan appreciation day! Player #2515 on my board was Jorge Polanco, which was utterly surprising to me that I hadn’t used him before.

Seeing this brings back one of my favorite memories of my Dad. One night he and my Mom went out to dinner at a Pizza Hut, long after his 8 kids had left the home, and they were enjoying their meal when he noticed a young, working class family in a nearby booth, with the parents patiently...

I could write a short story about one of my greatest days of high school, stretching an excused absence from school for a funeral and heading to Shakey’s with a bunch of my grocery store working friends.

I find it amusing that the league worries about Labor Day and the reduced TV viewership/attendance while it tries to eat up every other holiday-Thanksgiving Eve! Expanded Thanksgiving docket of games! Christmas Eve/Day games no matter the day of the week! The last line of this AI summary is...

Way down on the farm, last year’s round 2 pick and Delmon’s nephew is mashing: