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Our annual baseball man-crushes are part of what makes this site what it is — slightly creepy. But seriously, folks. Last year, we latched onto Jamie Owens’ hitting streak. It was a great story that few people ever heard about. The year before that, we gave Jay Bruce, then a Reds farmhand, the nickname “The Deal”, and it turns out he heard about it, and liked it. Turns out our mancrush was legit. He’s...
Thursday was one of those “good news, bad news” days. The good news: I received a copy of Joe Posnanski’s “The Machine” in the mail from Harper Collins (I’m still not entirely sure why this happened, but at least it made me feel important). The bad news: I already bought the book a couple days after it came out. (Actually, I bought two books on that trip to Barnes & Noble: “The Machine” for...
(A blog was nice enough to link to this post last week – I can’t seem to find the name – and one of the commenters noted that I had left out the Cardinals affiliate in the Gulf Coast League, which changes the team’s overall average but not it’s placement on the list. The new numbers are included below.) Pittsburgh Pirates (average: 374 miles) Pittsburgh to… …Indianapolis Indians (AAA): 360 miles …Altoona Curve (AA):...
In baseball circles, the name “Kevin Maas” is legend, representative of a highly touted player who bursts onto the scene and fizzles out just quickly. Joe Charbonneau pulled a Maas; so did Bob Hamelin, I’m inclined to say without looking at his numbers. But this, people…this is just naked aggression toward the man who remains our hero despite having been in the major leagues and theoretically off our radar for a month. Jay, what do...
It’s official: Walt Jocketty and Dusty Baker are dead to me. Hardcore fans of Bus Leagues will recall that up until a few weeks ago, I planned to make a pilgrimmage to the Holy Land of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to see the Louisville Bats take on the Pawtucket Red Sox. Louisville was, at the time, home to a pair of guys I wanted to see up close and person: outfielder Jay Bruce, the official man-crush of...
Jacoby Ellsbury, the 13th ranked prospect according to Baseball America’s preseason list, has been on the major league roster of the Boston Red Sox for the entire 2008 season to date, one of about eleven names on the Top 100 to do so.* That makes him one of those guys that occasionally slips through the cracks at Bus Leagues: Ellsbury is clearly a major leaguer at this point, but his place on the Top 100...
Nooooooo, Jay, nooooooo! Stop! Not against THAT team! AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! Bruce, Dunn homers lead Reds over Red Sox 3-1 (Yahoo! Sports)
I once hit a walkoff homerun. It was in Little League. We were trailing, 8-7, in the last inning when I came up to bat with the bases loaded. I ripped a line drive just inside the first base line and managed to touch ‘em all before they got the ball in for a game-winning, inside-the-park grand slam*. *Truth be told, it was Little League, and I wasn’t the World’s Fastest Kid. There were...
Some might argue that Homer Bailey doesn’t deserve a “Now Pitching For…” post; after all, it is an honor typically reserved for prospects who are just arriving on the major league scene, not ones who appeared in nine games and pitched 45.3 innings in 2007. When I saw that the Reds were calling Bailey up to make a start on Thursday, however, doing this post was the first thing that popped into my head. ...
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to...
