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.

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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...

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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!

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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):

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.

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