Thursday, October 14, 2004
GOOD FRIGGING MORNING
Here's the stuff that I fell asleep over last night. I might have posted part of this post on accident about 20 minutes ago. Anyway, it's tidbittage.
MARINERS
-- Bob Finnigan reports that former Florida manager John Boles has been hired into the organization, but then doesn't give Boles' new title. Just that he's going "to help Mariners GM Bill Bavasi rebuild the Mariners." The article then moves on to further managerial speculation, namely Bavasi retreads Terry Collins and Joe Maddon. There's also a sprinkle of Uncle Lee Elia in there (hire him if you want Dan Wilson to really like it here, I guess). Also in the article was the seemingly tacked-on part about the Mariners "no longer hav[ing] the services of" coaches John Moses and Jim Slaton. Most of the rest of the names seem to be Finnigan spewing stuff, though, except for maybe one name, which has another corroborative partner in the Seattle print media...
-- The headline to the John Hickey article reads "Baylor to interview with M's." The first sentence in the article says "...Baylor is expected to be interviewed by the Mariners for their vacant managerial job..." [emphasis added]. I take this a lot differently than, say, "Baylor will fly to Seattle on Monday and be interviewed for the vacant Mariners' managerial post." For me, the last sentence I just made up would have been suitable for the headline that was put onto the story. The one that actually ran is not. I bet it's great for selling papers, though. Bavasi is indirectly quoted as trying to have a new manager hired by the start of the Yankees/Cardinals World Series (yeah, I said it). Also, the Mariners outrighted Jeff Heaverlo, Mickey Lopez, BJ Garbe, and Hiram Bocachica to Tacoma. Bocachica refused and walked. The three that took the outright are vulnerable to be lost to the Rule V Draft (oh damn!!! That'd suck!! Yes, I'm kidding).
-- Some of my thoughts about the games last night. Remember when Brandon Backe was just another one of those Tampa Bay no-names with an ERA of 5.44? A year later, somehow he's the Astros' LCS Game 1 starter. How the Astros have gotten away with the likes of Phil Garner, Backe, Pete Munro, and an injured Andy Pettitte, I'll never know. ... About the Cardinals, I called the Pujols homer about 30 seconds before it happened. I didn't think it'd be opposite-field, though. ... As for that other series, it looks like it's different players and the same result for the Yankees and Red Sox. Does anyone see this series going seven? I can't see it, especially if this ankle injury to Curt Schilling hampers him. No Pettitte and no Clemens and the Yankees are still pulling this crap. Life isn't fair. And I didn't even mention the John Olerud homer.
-- Why is Bret Boone having LASIK eye surgery on his 20/30 eyes? Maybe that's contact-assisted. Bret Boone is on KJR right now with Mitch, anyway.
SEAHAWKS
-- Jerry Wunsch rejoined the Seahawks, signing a two-year deal. Tod McBride was waived to make room. Wunsch apparently is insurance for next season. Four linemen (Walter Jones, Robbie Tobeck, Chris Gray, Floyd Womack) are all eligible to be free agents next offseason.
-- Did anyone else cringe last Sunday when Josh Brown punted after Tom Rouen had the hamstring injury? I know I did. I was glad he got it away, though it was kind of short, but I'm also glad he didn't shank it or have it get blocked. Overall, the Brown punt wasn't as disastrous a play as any of Koren Robinson's dropped balls or Shaun Alexander's failed 3rd-and-1 attempt with about 4 minutes to go. Kudos to a couple of KJR voice mailers, one who called the Groz and Gas show as Koren (dropping everything he held, including his sandwich and phone), and the drunk one who called Mitch Levy repeatedly, complaining about how Alexander takes one step forward and then tries to bounce to the outside every time, and the opposition picks up on it easily. There was cursing involved in Drunk Guy's responses.
-- Greg Bishop has an interesting little article about quarterbacks drafted in the late rounds having some success lately. Two of them (Matt Hasselbeck/Tom Brady) will face off on Sunday. Input from Michael Holley, Phil Simms, and Trent Dilfer. The P-I also has a somewhat similar article, just saying that the two have had a somewhat similar ascent.
SONICS
-- Nate McMillan messed with the lineup last night in Portland after Ray Allen was sidelined with migraines and gastrointenstinal problems and Luke Ridnour was out with a left eye scratch. Rashard Lewis was used at shooting guard. Anyway, the game ended up with Portland waxing the floor with the green and gold (yellow), 92-73. A much more interesting read is the P-I article, with Ray Allen's take on Kobe and the new Lakers. Frank Hughes would tell you that some of Allen's words were "sharp" and "visceral."
HOCKEY
-- The Manitoba Moose (the Canucks' farm team) came away with a 6-3 win at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton last night. Veteran journeyman goalie Wade Flaherty came in after Alex Auld allowed three goals on his first four shots. Flaherty stopped all 15 shots he faced. Jimmy Roy and Jason King had two goals and one assist apiece (Roy with the gamer). Peter Sarno added a goal and an assist, and Ryan Kesler chipped in with a goal.
-- The Everett Silvertips came away with a 2-2 tie against last year's Memorial Cup champs, the Kelowna Rockets. I'd be a little more jazzed if they'd won the Memorial Cup in Tacoma. This despite the 'Tips being outshot 33-12. Credit to Michael Wall in net.
-- The Vancouver Giants got a 4-3 overtime win against Prince George on an overtime power-play goal by Andrej Meszaros. Also in the works for the Giants is a scrimmage with a few of the Canucks (May, Cloutier, Naslund, Sopel, Jovanovski?, Cooke) on December 11 to benefit Canuck Place Children's Hospice.
-- Tomorrow: Vancouver at Spokane; Everett at Portland; Kelowna at Seattle
And that'll be it for now. There'll probably be more, seeing as to how they don't want me back at work until Monday. Hooray for temp work! No hooray for no money!
Again, thanks to Nelson de la Rosa, who got us the best hit day in recorded Sports and B's history, to the tune of almost 800 hits. Freakin' crazy. So to recap, our day-to-day content alone nets us about 200-250 hits on a weekday, whereas Nelson has netted us hundreds more. Amazing.
And to anyone new out there to Sports and B's, please enjoy your stay.
[Edit Fri ~1:09a -- Sorry I realized this really late, but with my work week getting curtailed, I lost track of what day it was. The three hockey games are on Friday, as opposed to Thursday, which I implied in the original posting. This has been changed.]
MARINERS
-- Bob Finnigan reports that former Florida manager John Boles has been hired into the organization, but then doesn't give Boles' new title. Just that he's going "to help Mariners GM Bill Bavasi rebuild the Mariners." The article then moves on to further managerial speculation, namely Bavasi retreads Terry Collins and Joe Maddon. There's also a sprinkle of Uncle Lee Elia in there (hire him if you want Dan Wilson to really like it here, I guess). Also in the article was the seemingly tacked-on part about the Mariners "no longer hav[ing] the services of" coaches John Moses and Jim Slaton. Most of the rest of the names seem to be Finnigan spewing stuff, though, except for maybe one name, which has another corroborative partner in the Seattle print media...
-- The headline to the John Hickey article reads "Baylor to interview with M's." The first sentence in the article says "...Baylor is expected to be interviewed by the Mariners for their vacant managerial job..." [emphasis added]. I take this a lot differently than, say, "Baylor will fly to Seattle on Monday and be interviewed for the vacant Mariners' managerial post." For me, the last sentence I just made up would have been suitable for the headline that was put onto the story. The one that actually ran is not. I bet it's great for selling papers, though. Bavasi is indirectly quoted as trying to have a new manager hired by the start of the Yankees/Cardinals World Series (yeah, I said it). Also, the Mariners outrighted Jeff Heaverlo, Mickey Lopez, BJ Garbe, and Hiram Bocachica to Tacoma. Bocachica refused and walked. The three that took the outright are vulnerable to be lost to the Rule V Draft (oh damn!!! That'd suck!! Yes, I'm kidding).
-- Some of my thoughts about the games last night. Remember when Brandon Backe was just another one of those Tampa Bay no-names with an ERA of 5.44? A year later, somehow he's the Astros' LCS Game 1 starter. How the Astros have gotten away with the likes of Phil Garner, Backe, Pete Munro, and an injured Andy Pettitte, I'll never know. ... About the Cardinals, I called the Pujols homer about 30 seconds before it happened. I didn't think it'd be opposite-field, though. ... As for that other series, it looks like it's different players and the same result for the Yankees and Red Sox. Does anyone see this series going seven? I can't see it, especially if this ankle injury to Curt Schilling hampers him. No Pettitte and no Clemens and the Yankees are still pulling this crap. Life isn't fair. And I didn't even mention the John Olerud homer.
-- Why is Bret Boone having LASIK eye surgery on his 20/30 eyes? Maybe that's contact-assisted. Bret Boone is on KJR right now with Mitch, anyway.
SEAHAWKS
-- Jerry Wunsch rejoined the Seahawks, signing a two-year deal. Tod McBride was waived to make room. Wunsch apparently is insurance for next season. Four linemen (Walter Jones, Robbie Tobeck, Chris Gray, Floyd Womack) are all eligible to be free agents next offseason.
-- Did anyone else cringe last Sunday when Josh Brown punted after Tom Rouen had the hamstring injury? I know I did. I was glad he got it away, though it was kind of short, but I'm also glad he didn't shank it or have it get blocked. Overall, the Brown punt wasn't as disastrous a play as any of Koren Robinson's dropped balls or Shaun Alexander's failed 3rd-and-1 attempt with about 4 minutes to go. Kudos to a couple of KJR voice mailers, one who called the Groz and Gas show as Koren (dropping everything he held, including his sandwich and phone), and the drunk one who called Mitch Levy repeatedly, complaining about how Alexander takes one step forward and then tries to bounce to the outside every time, and the opposition picks up on it easily. There was cursing involved in Drunk Guy's responses.
-- Greg Bishop has an interesting little article about quarterbacks drafted in the late rounds having some success lately. Two of them (Matt Hasselbeck/Tom Brady) will face off on Sunday. Input from Michael Holley, Phil Simms, and Trent Dilfer. The P-I also has a somewhat similar article, just saying that the two have had a somewhat similar ascent.
SONICS
-- Nate McMillan messed with the lineup last night in Portland after Ray Allen was sidelined with migraines and gastrointenstinal problems and Luke Ridnour was out with a left eye scratch. Rashard Lewis was used at shooting guard. Anyway, the game ended up with Portland waxing the floor with the green and gold (yellow), 92-73. A much more interesting read is the P-I article, with Ray Allen's take on Kobe and the new Lakers. Frank Hughes would tell you that some of Allen's words were "sharp" and "visceral."
HOCKEY
-- The Manitoba Moose (the Canucks' farm team) came away with a 6-3 win at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton last night. Veteran journeyman goalie Wade Flaherty came in after Alex Auld allowed three goals on his first four shots. Flaherty stopped all 15 shots he faced. Jimmy Roy and Jason King had two goals and one assist apiece (Roy with the gamer). Peter Sarno added a goal and an assist, and Ryan Kesler chipped in with a goal.
-- The Everett Silvertips came away with a 2-2 tie against last year's Memorial Cup champs, the Kelowna Rockets. I'd be a little more jazzed if they'd won the Memorial Cup in Tacoma. This despite the 'Tips being outshot 33-12. Credit to Michael Wall in net.
-- The Vancouver Giants got a 4-3 overtime win against Prince George on an overtime power-play goal by Andrej Meszaros. Also in the works for the Giants is a scrimmage with a few of the Canucks (May, Cloutier, Naslund, Sopel, Jovanovski?, Cooke) on December 11 to benefit Canuck Place Children's Hospice.
-- Tomorrow: Vancouver at Spokane; Everett at Portland; Kelowna at Seattle
And that'll be it for now. There'll probably be more, seeing as to how they don't want me back at work until Monday. Hooray for temp work! No hooray for no money!
Again, thanks to Nelson de la Rosa, who got us the best hit day in recorded Sports and B's history, to the tune of almost 800 hits. Freakin' crazy. So to recap, our day-to-day content alone nets us about 200-250 hits on a weekday, whereas Nelson has netted us hundreds more. Amazing.
And to anyone new out there to Sports and B's, please enjoy your stay.
[Edit Fri ~1:09a -- Sorry I realized this really late, but with my work week getting curtailed, I lost track of what day it was. The three hockey games are on Friday, as opposed to Thursday, which I implied in the original posting. This has been changed.]
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