Friday, October 22, 2004
CURMUDGEON
Here's the stuff I was working on when I fell asleep some time around 2am last night.
BASEBALL
Andriesen probably didn't have too much to go on here. It's nothing that past articles haven't already covered. The Mariners have a lot to do, the organization likes Bryan Price (Mike Hargrove and Mark Wiley are close), Sam Perlozzo wouldn't mind being Hargrove's bench coach again, and the spots of Jongewaard, Woodward, Gillick, Slaton, and Moses will be filled by other people.
We've been searched for it here a couple of times, and I now reveal to you what the Sun print edition (but not the online edition) revealed yesterday. A new summer league, the West Coast Collegiate Summer League (a wood-bat league), will begin play in June of 2005, and the Kitsap BlueJackets will play at the county fairgrounds (which has planted some new grass; I drove by there the other day). Rick Smith, a Silverdale attorney, is the GM, and Matt Acker, head coach at Green River CC, has been named the BlueJackets' head coach. The league looks like it will coexist with the Pacific International League (PIL) with teams from Everett, Kirkland, Seattle, Portland, and Langley (BC). Other members in the WCCSL include Aloha, Bellingham, Bend, Kelowna, Spokane, and Wenatchee. I met with one of the guys in the Bend organization at the Bend Fieldhouse last summer when I was taking some hacks at the cage; good guy. Eligible players will be college players coming off their freshman, sophomore, and junior seasons.
The WCCSL becomes the first NCAA-certified summer league west of the Rockies. When it comes to other summer wood-bat leagues, the Cape Cod League and the Alaskan League come to mind.
The Kitsap BlueJackets are holding organizational meetings tonight and tomorrow, location undisclosed. Chuck Stark wrote the article yesterday in the Sun that I pulled the info from. Thanks, coach.
SEAHAWKS
I was only half-joking when I mentioned the injury trifecta of Chad Brown, Anthony Simmons, and Grant Wistrom. Brown got hurt in the preseason. Wistrom was hurt last week. Now, Anthony Simmons is out 2-4 weeks after having surgery to deal with bone spurs in his left shoulder. The defense is now paper-thin, with the only consolation being that Sunday's game is against Arizona. But it's a better Arizona team than in past years. In the Times article, we learn that Jerry Rice dropped two balls in practice.
SONICS
The Sonics are in disarray on the court right now, and preseason time is running out. Also, Damien Wilkins is fighting for a roster spot. He's trying to get by on ability and skills, rather than the fact that he's Gerald Wilkins' son, and Dominique Wilkins' nephew.
HOCKEY
Imagine my surprise when I saw that the top item on the Times online sports page last night was a preview for the Tri City Americans/Seattle Thunderbirds WHL game last night. Of course, the preview has since been banished to the near-bottom of the page.
And yes, there's a full slate of games tonight and tomorrow...
Tonight: Portland at Spokane, Seattle at Tri City, Everett at Prince George, Edmonton at Manitoba, Butte at Puget Sound
Saturday: Portland at Spokane, Vancouver at Seattle, Everett at Prince George, Edmonton at Manitoba, Butte at Puget Sound
Have a wicked fun Friday, everybody.
BASEBALL
Andriesen probably didn't have too much to go on here. It's nothing that past articles haven't already covered. The Mariners have a lot to do, the organization likes Bryan Price (Mike Hargrove and Mark Wiley are close), Sam Perlozzo wouldn't mind being Hargrove's bench coach again, and the spots of Jongewaard, Woodward, Gillick, Slaton, and Moses will be filled by other people.
We've been searched for it here a couple of times, and I now reveal to you what the Sun print edition (but not the online edition) revealed yesterday. A new summer league, the West Coast Collegiate Summer League (a wood-bat league), will begin play in June of 2005, and the Kitsap BlueJackets will play at the county fairgrounds (which has planted some new grass; I drove by there the other day). Rick Smith, a Silverdale attorney, is the GM, and Matt Acker, head coach at Green River CC, has been named the BlueJackets' head coach. The league looks like it will coexist with the Pacific International League (PIL) with teams from Everett, Kirkland, Seattle, Portland, and Langley (BC). Other members in the WCCSL include Aloha, Bellingham, Bend, Kelowna, Spokane, and Wenatchee. I met with one of the guys in the Bend organization at the Bend Fieldhouse last summer when I was taking some hacks at the cage; good guy. Eligible players will be college players coming off their freshman, sophomore, and junior seasons.
The WCCSL becomes the first NCAA-certified summer league west of the Rockies. When it comes to other summer wood-bat leagues, the Cape Cod League and the Alaskan League come to mind.
The Kitsap BlueJackets are holding organizational meetings tonight and tomorrow, location undisclosed. Chuck Stark wrote the article yesterday in the Sun that I pulled the info from. Thanks, coach.
SEAHAWKS
I was only half-joking when I mentioned the injury trifecta of Chad Brown, Anthony Simmons, and Grant Wistrom. Brown got hurt in the preseason. Wistrom was hurt last week. Now, Anthony Simmons is out 2-4 weeks after having surgery to deal with bone spurs in his left shoulder. The defense is now paper-thin, with the only consolation being that Sunday's game is against Arizona. But it's a better Arizona team than in past years. In the Times article, we learn that Jerry Rice dropped two balls in practice.
SONICS
The Sonics are in disarray on the court right now, and preseason time is running out. Also, Damien Wilkins is fighting for a roster spot. He's trying to get by on ability and skills, rather than the fact that he's Gerald Wilkins' son, and Dominique Wilkins' nephew.
HOCKEY
Imagine my surprise when I saw that the top item on the Times online sports page last night was a preview for the Tri City Americans/Seattle Thunderbirds WHL game last night. Of course, the preview has since been banished to the near-bottom of the page.
And yes, there's a full slate of games tonight and tomorrow...
Tonight: Portland at Spokane, Seattle at Tri City, Everett at Prince George, Edmonton at Manitoba, Butte at Puget Sound
Saturday: Portland at Spokane, Vancouver at Seattle, Everett at Prince George, Edmonton at Manitoba, Butte at Puget Sound
Have a wicked fun Friday, everybody.
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