Thursday, June 26, 2008
Wielding a hot bat
Hmm, let's keep an eye on American Legion baseball in the Minneapolis suburbs. There's a player for the North St. Paul Post 39 team who I feel I have some kinship with.
Labels: american legion, minneapolis, pat ellwanger
Sunday, June 22, 2008
It's always Friday at Dodger Stadium
Even when it's Topps Tuesday. A portion of an ad from today's L.A. Times...
Labels: advertising, dodgers
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Steve Trachsel
Last week the Orioles designated former Cub Steve Trachsel for assignment, which means that they have ten days to work out a trade or release him.
However, since it's Trachsel, they're going to take fifteen days.
Thank you, folks, thank you. I'll be here all week . . . and if I were Steve Trachsel, I'd be here two!
However, since it's Trachsel, they're going to take fifteen days.
Thank you, folks, thank you. I'll be here all week . . . and if I were Steve Trachsel, I'd be here two!
Labels: Steve Trachsel, The fact that I wasted thousands of hours of my life in the mid-90s waiting for Steve Trachsel to throw a goddam pitch
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Hit by pitch with the bases loaded: the most exciting play in baseball
And it's even more exciting when it happens in the bottom of the 11th inning, thus becoming a walk-off hit by pitch, as it did in today's Braves-Cubs game.
I watched this game because Levi e-mailed me this morning to tell me that WGN was doing a "retro" telecast to commemorate their 60th anniversary of broadcasting Cubs games, in time for me to use DirecTV's web site to schedule my DVR to record it.
As it turned out, it was much less elaborate than when Fox gave the "retro" treatment to a Cubs-Dodgers game circa 2000. For the first two innings, WGN presented the game in black and white, with only a couple of camera angles; they also had their character generator on the simplest possible setting (white text only, but with a modern-day drop shadow), which continued through the entire game. And they used a cool "WGN 9 TV" logo that I hadn't seen before -- at least, I didn't recognize it from any of the old Chicago TV Guides I have in my collection.
Also, this was the AT&T poll (which should have been the "Bell System" poll, but I know it can be hard getting sponsors to go along with such things):
"Bikini" won in a landslide.
I watched this game because Levi e-mailed me this morning to tell me that WGN was doing a "retro" telecast to commemorate their 60th anniversary of broadcasting Cubs games, in time for me to use DirecTV's web site to schedule my DVR to record it.
As it turned out, it was much less elaborate than when Fox gave the "retro" treatment to a Cubs-Dodgers game circa 2000. For the first two innings, WGN presented the game in black and white, with only a couple of camera angles; they also had their character generator on the simplest possible setting (white text only, but with a modern-day drop shadow), which continued through the entire game. And they used a cool "WGN 9 TV" logo that I hadn't seen before -- at least, I didn't recognize it from any of the old Chicago TV Guides I have in my collection.
Also, this was the AT&T poll (which should have been the "Bell System" poll, but I know it can be hard getting sponsors to go along with such things):
Which of these new things are you enjoying the most?
A. Velcro
B. Vinyl 33-1/3 LP
C. Bikini
D. Scrabble
E. NASCAR
"Bikini" won in a landslide.
Labels: braves, cubs, directv, tv
