Thursday, June 03, 2004
PAPER JAM, VERSION 2
[Post is edited ~1:17p; posted the same thing twice after thinking Blogger ate my posts. It didn't, so I've combined the two posts if anything was different. The first post was deleted.]
The damn computer ate my frigging post the first time, so this one's going to be shorter. The computer in the Central geology undergrad room let me hit "publish" but then gave me the automatic error page, you know, the one where you click and it doesn't even hang for a second and just switches to an error message. Pissed me off.
I was gonna bring up the whole Qwest Field thing, but Jeremy already did. All I'll add to that is that the whole thing where they honor high school teams isn't bad, but the whole bypassing-the-Public Stadium Authority thing is.
I'll be touching on three sports in this here post.
-- If the Mariners trade Freddy Garcia, they might not be screwed only by their general manager's ineptitude, but by the market as well, according to Larry Stone's anonymous GM canvassing. Says one GM: "I think Garcia will bring you back a good prospect," he said. "I'm not saying he would be in the 'A' category, but he's going to be a good 'B' category prospect." Yup. Great. Who wants a good B-level toolsy prospect? I hate this team.
-- Willie Williams. He's going back to the Steelers, which will mean no tall receivers will be reaching over him and no faster receivers will be burning past him in the Seahawk secondary. This day is probably two years too late.
-- Obligatory hockey note because I miss hockey: is there anyone out there juiced up over this World Cup happening Aug 30th to Sept 16th? There hasn't been a hockey world cup in eight years. Steve Tambellini from the Canuck brass is the director of player personnel for Team Canada. The site notes that he was born in Trail, BC, also home to the great Chicken Parm fiend and ESPN/Edmonton Oiler broadcaster Ray Ferraro. That team is stacked. Something I forgot to mention the other day with the Canucks on all these rosters is that Canuck farmhand Jaroslav Obsut is on the Slovakian team.
-- That guy I thought the Mariners should get a couple years ago instead of James Baldwin...yeah, that Jason Schmidt guy? He's your NL Pitcher of the Month for May. He was 5-0 with a 1.53 ERA and fanned 54 and walked 13 over 47 innings, which is quite crazy.
-- Anyone wanna bring back a former Mariner with little chance of upside? We know Bill Bavasi likes this type of player, and it turns out Paul Abbott has been cut loose by the Devil Rays.
-- Jeff is hilarious with his corporate postgame notes from last night. "Not one, but two people called in and told Bill that he was "doing a great job" and the Mariners were "lucky to have him." Hey, I can see their point. Well, except for that whole turning a 93 win team into a 100 loss team thing." Sarcasm is the fruit of life, kids.
-- Cracker Jack is returning to Yankee Stadium. They went to Crunch N Munch because Cracker Jack went to bags instead of boxes in an effort to preserve freshness. But come on...it's Cracker Jack!
Well, I got home last night and thought there would be hockey on, but I was one day early in that thinking. Think of what a horror it is to expect the Stanley Cup Finals on ABC, turn on the TV, and see the local news of the Yakima affiliate. Yikes. You haven't observed hackneyed TV news until you've seen local news in a rural or semi-rural market, everyone. The graphics get dumbed down, and most of the on-air personnel are straight out of college. Seriously. I've surfed around and seen the websites of many markets in the sticks, and you read their bios, and sure enough, a lot are straight out of college, looking for that big jump to a major market, and using the rural market as a stepping stone. Not to say all the fresh-from-college people are crap, but the ratio's a little higher than in the seasoned-veteran major markets, except maybe for that deal where Susan Hutchison was bumped off of KIRO for Kristy Lee. That one still perplexes me.
See y'all later.
The damn computer ate my frigging post the first time, so this one's going to be shorter. The computer in the Central geology undergrad room let me hit "publish" but then gave me the automatic error page, you know, the one where you click and it doesn't even hang for a second and just switches to an error message. Pissed me off.
I was gonna bring up the whole Qwest Field thing, but Jeremy already did. All I'll add to that is that the whole thing where they honor high school teams isn't bad, but the whole bypassing-the-Public Stadium Authority thing is.
I'll be touching on three sports in this here post.
-- If the Mariners trade Freddy Garcia, they might not be screwed only by their general manager's ineptitude, but by the market as well, according to Larry Stone's anonymous GM canvassing. Says one GM: "I think Garcia will bring you back a good prospect," he said. "I'm not saying he would be in the 'A' category, but he's going to be a good 'B' category prospect." Yup. Great. Who wants a good B-level toolsy prospect? I hate this team.
-- Willie Williams. He's going back to the Steelers, which will mean no tall receivers will be reaching over him and no faster receivers will be burning past him in the Seahawk secondary. This day is probably two years too late.
-- Obligatory hockey note because I miss hockey: is there anyone out there juiced up over this World Cup happening Aug 30th to Sept 16th? There hasn't been a hockey world cup in eight years. Steve Tambellini from the Canuck brass is the director of player personnel for Team Canada. The site notes that he was born in Trail, BC, also home to the great Chicken Parm fiend and ESPN/Edmonton Oiler broadcaster Ray Ferraro. That team is stacked. Something I forgot to mention the other day with the Canucks on all these rosters is that Canuck farmhand Jaroslav Obsut is on the Slovakian team.
-- That guy I thought the Mariners should get a couple years ago instead of James Baldwin...yeah, that Jason Schmidt guy? He's your NL Pitcher of the Month for May. He was 5-0 with a 1.53 ERA and fanned 54 and walked 13 over 47 innings, which is quite crazy.
-- Anyone wanna bring back a former Mariner with little chance of upside? We know Bill Bavasi likes this type of player, and it turns out Paul Abbott has been cut loose by the Devil Rays.
-- Jeff is hilarious with his corporate postgame notes from last night. "Not one, but two people called in and told Bill that he was "doing a great job" and the Mariners were "lucky to have him." Hey, I can see their point. Well, except for that whole turning a 93 win team into a 100 loss team thing." Sarcasm is the fruit of life, kids.
-- Cracker Jack is returning to Yankee Stadium. They went to Crunch N Munch because Cracker Jack went to bags instead of boxes in an effort to preserve freshness. But come on...it's Cracker Jack!
Well, I got home last night and thought there would be hockey on, but I was one day early in that thinking. Think of what a horror it is to expect the Stanley Cup Finals on ABC, turn on the TV, and see the local news of the Yakima affiliate. Yikes. You haven't observed hackneyed TV news until you've seen local news in a rural or semi-rural market, everyone. The graphics get dumbed down, and most of the on-air personnel are straight out of college. Seriously. I've surfed around and seen the websites of many markets in the sticks, and you read their bios, and sure enough, a lot are straight out of college, looking for that big jump to a major market, and using the rural market as a stepping stone. Not to say all the fresh-from-college people are crap, but the ratio's a little higher than in the seasoned-veteran major markets, except maybe for that deal where Susan Hutchison was bumped off of KIRO for Kristy Lee. That one still perplexes me.
See y'all later.
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