My wife sent me the following e-mail:
Hey David, check it out. I’m sitting next to your new girlfriend.
Don’t you just love your new girlfriend?
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October 31, 2003
No Takers
Manny Ramirez remains with the Red Sox.
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October 31, 2003
But What About the Great Health Care?
Maels Rodriguez has defected from Cuba so he can play in the United States.
Rodriguez, a 24-year-old right-hander, is one of Cuba’s top pitchers and his fastball is said to regularly top 100 mph.
“I want to play the best baseball, and that’s in the United States,” Rodriguez said. “It’s a difficult step because you know how [...]
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October 31, 2003
Pat Jordan Interview
Alex Belth has another in a long line of great interviews over at Bronx Banter, this time with Pat Jordan. My favorite bit:
BB: You like Schilling?
PJ: I don?t like him personally, I think he?s an [expletive deleted], but I think he?s a strong pitcher. Oh, he?s an ego [driven] media hound, and [expletive deleted] artist. [...]
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October 31, 2003
Happy Halloween!
Feel free to leave a treat in the PayPal tip jar.
Posted by David Pinto at 10:19 am | Other | Permalink | No Comments
October 31, 2003
Cheap Tickets
The Pittsburgh Pirates are lowing prices on their cheaper seats. They are also giving a discount to season ticket holders:
The Pirates also are offering $3 off every seat for full-season ticket holders, meaning that every full-season ticket will cost at least $243 less than last season. Also, partial-season ticket holders will be offered a [...]
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October 31, 2003
High Rant District
Mike Carminanti has moved his excellent blog, Mike’s Baseball Rants to the all-baseball.com web server. Excellent move, Mike! And he’s now using Movable Type as well. Stop by and say hi.
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October 30, 2003
Thomas Returns
Frank Thomas has exercised his option to return to the White Sox in 2004. He’ll earn $6 million dollars. Seems like a bargain for a hitter like Thomas.
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October 30, 2003
Manny Speculation
Ben Jacobs at Universal Baseball Blog has a bit of wild speculation on where Manny may end up:
Before I start, I would like to make sure everybody knows that I have absolutely no insider information here. However, it just occurred to me that the Devil Rays could seriously be interested in obtaining the services of [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 4:19 pm | Transactions | Permalink | No Comments
October 30, 2003
Other Options
While the consenus is that the Yankees are the only ones who would claim Ramirez in the next 36 hours, the Dodgers have just freed about 16 million in salary for next year. Frank McCourt is not the owner yet, but if he could get Fox to make the deal for him it would [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 11:49 am | Transactions | Permalink | 1 Comment
October 30, 2003
Neyer on Manny
Rob Neyer weighs in on the waiving of Manny Ramirez, and he thinks the move is very interesting (my thoughts here):
What makes all this so fascinating isn’t that the Red Sox have placed Ramirez on waivers. That’s just common sense. What’s fascinating is that the Red Sox are essentially offering a great player to their [...]
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October 30, 2003
Mozart and Drugs
David Aceto comments on this post:
A minor point … The emperor at Mozart’s time was the Holy Roman Emperor, a title that had become almost hereditary to the Habsburg family (There was a slight problem in the 1740s, and the family became known technically as Habsburg-Lorraine, but this is all getting too complicated ….) . [...]
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October 30, 2003
Heads Rolling
The Red Sox have put Manny Ramirez on irrevocable waivers, according to this report in the Boston Herald. This means any team can claim Manny’s contract by midnight Friday, and the Red Sox will lose him along with all the money they owe him. The Red Sox will neither confirm nor deny this [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 8:09 am | Management | Permalink | 2 Comments
October 29, 2003
Maybe the Yankees Can Get a Recount
Betsy Newmark points out how the World Series is like the Electoral College.
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October 29, 2003
The More Things Change…
Rob Neyer has an excellent column on Yankee hatred today.
We’re also still arguing about the Yankees. A few minutes after running across Cobbledick’s column about the sacrifice “hit,” I found this:
“In winning four straight American League pennants and world championships, the Yankees have not won popularity. If anything, as they travel along the path to [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 1:26 pm | Fan Rant | Permalink | No Comments
October 29, 2003
You Too Can Design A Drug
The FDA has declared that THG is an illegal drug, not a dietary supplement. This is the part I find most interesting:
Exactly who developed THG is unclear. Dozens of top Olympic and professional athletes have been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury probing a California lab that sells nutritional supplements. Its owner [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:03 am | Cheating | Permalink | No Comments
October 28, 2003
Reds GM
Here’s a good background piece on Reds GM Dan O’Brien.
Posted by David Pinto at 10:40 pm | Management | Permalink | No Comments
October 28, 2003
Same School of Fish?
Jeffrey Loria is promising to keep the Marlins together:
“This isn’t going to be 1997,” Loria said. “No way 1997. … These guys have been spectacular, and we’ll do everything we can to have as many of them back next year as possible. We are not doing 1997.”
That’s good. I suspect that season ticket sales [...]
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October 28, 2003
Other Teams
Sometimes I worry that I don’t write enough about teams that I’m not close to, especially the west coast teams. So I went to the SF Chronicle page today to see if they had any articles on the Giants potential free agents. There was not one new story on the page about the [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 3:27 pm | Free Agents | Permalink | No Comments
October 28, 2003
Good Cop, Bad Cop
Ira Berkow in the NY Times pens an inner look at Joe Torre. Ira asks Joe about inner peace, and Torre talks about his rough childhood and how he fights against abuse now.
So parental love may be, for Joe Torre, more important than victory. Human consideration may be, for Joe Torre, more important than [...]
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October 28, 2003
Beane Ball
We have another convert.
Update: The permalink is working right. Scroll down to the entry entitled, “SHHH.”
Posted by David Pinto at 2:17 pm | Management | Permalink | No Comments
October 28, 2003
Denial of Service
Instapundit believes there may be another denial of service attack on Thursday. At this point in the year, it won’t bother me much, but just to remind you, the backup blog is at http://pages.map.com/pinto/blogger.html.
Posted by David Pinto at 1:54 pm | Blogs | Permalink | 1 Comment
October 28, 2003
His Kind of Town
Ozzie Guillen wants to manage the White Sox.
Oh, how Ozzie Guillen hungers for that White Sox job now. Talk about icing on the cake.
“Like I was telling my wife and my kids the other day,” the 39-year-old Florida Marlins third-base coach said over the weekend at Yankee Stadium, “I don’t want to be a manager [...]
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October 28, 2003
More on Grady’s Departure
Despite all the speculation about Grady Little being fired for his game seven decision, Gordon Edes, I believes, nails the real reason:
The Sox no longer want to discover, to their dismay, that the manager, according to a team source, failed to hold a hitters’ meeting before the Oakland playoff series, wasting countless hours of traditional [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 9:23 am | Management | Permalink | No Comments
October 28, 2003
Whitey Sox
Sabermetric manager Whitey Herzog wants to run the Red Sox. I’d love to see that. Here’s my thoughts on Whitey from yesterday.
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October 27, 2003
Red Sox News Conference
It’s going on right now. You can hear it at MLB.com. They have officially released Grady Little.
Update: The Red Sox are saying that Grady wanted a long term contract with full support of management. The Red Sox were unwillingly to go long term with Grady, so they didn’t renew.
Update: Unfortunately, I can’t [...]
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October 27, 2003
Free Agent Season
Players started filing for free agency today. Here’s the list of potential and current free agents by team. And here’s a list by position.
Also, Mike Berardino of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel writes about how ML ownership of the Expos puts a damper on the free agent market:
For the third straight winter, Major League [...]
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October 27, 2003
Dan’s the Man
The Cincinnati Reds hired Dan O’Brien as general manager today. The move was expected and reported by the Cincinnati Enquirer yesterday. They also give some background on why O’Brien was hired:
O’Brien’s accomplishments before going to the Rangers probably sold the Reds on him. The Astros have consistently competed in the National League Central, [...]
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October 27, 2003
Late Little?
ESPN.com is reporting that Grady Little will be fired today and the announcement will be made at 3 PM EST. Stay tuned.
I’m not impressed with most of the candidates listed as possible replacements. Two I do find intriguing are Willie Randolph (because I’ve always felt he was a smart ballplayer) and Jerry Remy, [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 1:05 pm | Management | Permalink | No Comments
October 27, 2003
Winning, Not Losing
Before the series started, I was exchanging messages with Alex Belth of Bronx Banter, and one thing we wanted was that neither team would lose the series the way the Cubs and Red Sox did. We didn’t want to point to a dumb move by a manager and say, “That’s where the series [...]
Posted by David Pinto at 10:41 am | World Series | Permalink | No Comments
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