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He keeps on surprising me--invariably when I've lost track of who's pitching on a particular night and the run count is low, I figure it must be a Lopez or Ober night, but more often than not it's been Woods Richardson. Where would this team be without him?

We finished it last night--I recall the media storm around it from back in the day, but didn't follow it in detail back then. I didn't realize the Innocence Project has taken on this case, I can't see how there's any reasonable doubt of his guilt--it seems as open & shut as a case can be--as...

Our only difference was I chose Huston Street for the Athletics (12%). And yes, the Roland’s Relief Man was the pinnacle.

I've professed my crush for the Rangers as my non-Twins IG team before, but the Angels have made inroads over the time, particularly in relation to the shared history of Twins-Angels. It's pretty incredible--3 HOF'ers (Blyleven, Carew, and Winfield), some all-time Twins (Gaetti, Brunansky...

30+ Saves is one of my least favorite "special" categories. As evidenced by Fingers, the really good/great closers from the '70s/80s often didn't reach 30 saves--Goose Gossage, another HOF'er, only hit the mark twice and even in Willie Hernandez's Cy Young/MVP season he only attained 32 saves...

Taking advantage of the low hanging fruit there.

I was listening to a podcast awhile back (can't quite remember which one) and they went into detail about how clever the owners were by putting the second apron tax into the collective bargaining agreement--fanbases no longer can simply bemoan an owner being cheap and unwilling to add salaries...

Zebby reminds me of Zebulon Pike, which reminds me of college, freshman year studying for a Conservation test with a buddy and when I tossed out Pike's name, my overwhelmed friend responded, "that's a fish, right?" Said friend went on to have our university's legendary party house off campus...

The other night I watched Thief with James Caan which was Michael Mann's directorial debut on the big screen ('81). Really enjoyable, even if it lagged at times, Caan was such an electric actor and the dialogue of the script was so much fun. Chase this with The Rewatchables podcast (back in...

I never have seen the original, but I'll track it down now, as I'm similar to you with my admiration for the old school movies. Good call on De Palma/Hitchcock, after reading your comment, I did one of the old V-8 slaps to my head--of course this movie was an homage to Psycho.

Watched it tonight-it had been squirreled away in my Netflix queue and your mention of it was (edit: problems w/posting from phone) the impetus I needed. Excellent movie--Sci-fi is generally not my genre of choice, but thought provoking films like this are moving me more towards that path...

A trifecta today-Twins, T-Wolves, and Vikings. For the Twins, I went with: Pete Mackanin (.3%), an early, inexplicable favorite of my Twins fandom The first Twins MVP (10%) Had the unenviable task of following Puckett in CF (.3%)

I done got got by D-Backs/30 SB's too--IMO, it was a category of sadism by the Grid proprietors. I took a stab with Steve Finley but it wasn't to be. Surprised to see Paul Goldschmidt among the 7(!) D-Backs who have eclipsed the mark of 30 SB's.

Finally following up on yesterday's grid--I was happy to utilize the following players: * Both of Earl Weaver's famous platoon, Gary Roenicke and John Lowenstein * Two of the famed Red Sox outfielders from the '70s (Dewey Evans and Freddie Lynn) * Along with Dewey, the other slugging Evans from...

Hey, Houston Jimenez was my shortstop also! White Sox: Glenn Borgmann (.2%) Rockies: Michael Cuddyer (20%--I knew I was going to get a big score here, but he is my Mom's favorite all-time Twin, so I did it for Ma) I thought I was going to say goodbye to my perfect August less than a week into...

I was excited to bust my Terry Felton cherry on the Grid today. That's all--and yes, excitement these days ain't what it used to be.

I scuffled through the Rays category and ended up missing on Rays/Cards. Nelson Cruz was my guy for Rays/Nats and the recent trade of Arozarena salvaged the top square but ultimately couldn't achieve immaculate status.

Tigers: This reliever had us boogie-ing in ‘87 (1%) Red Sox: This ‘70s fireman had us hungry for Soup (1%) Brewers: Recently DFA’ed pitcher who I learned was a UW-Lacrosse alum (.05%)

I watched Invasion of the Body Snatchers for the first time last night (over the past couple nights--I've been fighting jet lag) and it was pretty kick ass--the freakiest moment may have been seeing uncredited Robert Duvall as a priest on the kiddie swing at the beginning of the movie. I was...