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Thursday, April 28, 2005 |
Pickoff Moves
Salacious Promotion
Hey, if Sports By Brooks can do it, why not AZ Snakepit? Anna Kournikova in a bikini? It's kinda baseball related, right?
The Baltimore Shuffle
In the upending of things in the AL East, the O's were perfectly situated to take advantage of slumps and extended injuries to both the Yankees and Red Sox. Sammy may not be Sammy! anymore, but he's on pace for 20-30 HR's this year, which beats Jerry Hairston, Jr. all to bits. And while there's no way they can keep getting seven homers a month out of Brian Roberts, if they even get 20+ out of him it goes a long way for making up for what may be Rafael Palmiero's last season in the bigs as a starting first baseman (.247/.291/.315, 1 HR, 73 AB). With as many stratospheric ERAs as the bullpen currently sports, their rotation anchored by the inconsistent and/or castoff quartet of Sir Sidney Ponson, Eric Bedard, Rodrigo Lopez, and Bruce Chen, however, I'm betting this early season streak won't last, and they'll fade to a .500 team by the All-Star break.Hee Was Much Better Than Cats, I Want To See Choi Again And Again
Jim Tracy on Hee Seop Choi's newfound .260 respectability:"I will try to find favorable situations for him," Tracy said.
Roster Moves
- Maicer Izturis will miss 4-6 weeks, thanks to a medial collateral ligament strain. This may accelerate the timetable for Kennedy's return, possibly moving his reinsertion date to the upcoming Seattle series.
Izturis will not require surgery, but may be forced back to AAA Salt Lake when he can play again.
- Ex-Dodger Dave Hansen signed with the Mariners, in a minor-league deal.
- Wilson Alvarez one-hit the Giants' Fresno AAA affiliate in four and two-thirds innings. Alvarez could rejoin the Dodgers as early as Monday.
Comments:
No, actually quite the reverse -- which you would have recognized had you read recognized in my Tuesday column about Choi getting the hook in Monday's game against the Snakes -- is that Tracy was increasingly whittling his playing time. Clearly, DePodesta is sold on his usefulness, but Tracy is less-than-enamored, and as Paul Scott at The Fourth Outfielder noted,
If Choi can’t be allowed to hit in that situation – if one of the worst bench players against right-handed pitching is considered a more appropriate choice by our manager – then Tracy and Choi have no business being on the same team. One of them needs to go.
That's a mite extreme for my taste, but you can see the tension here. The joke was supposed to be the 70's era Saturday Night Live sketch for a hypnotist who hypnotized his audience into coming back to his shows again and again (and saying so, zombie-like, in front of interview cameras set up outside the theater), and the point being Tracy had been hypnotized into giving Choi more at bats than he would have otherwise. Was that lost? Was it a (gulp) generational miscue? Hope not.
If Choi can’t be allowed to hit in that situation – if one of the worst bench players against right-handed pitching is considered a more appropriate choice by our manager – then Tracy and Choi have no business being on the same team. One of them needs to go.
That's a mite extreme for my taste, but you can see the tension here. The joke was supposed to be the 70's era Saturday Night Live sketch for a hypnotist who hypnotized his audience into coming back to his shows again and again (and saying so, zombie-like, in front of interview cameras set up outside the theater), and the point being Tracy had been hypnotized into giving Choi more at bats than he would have otherwise. Was that lost? Was it a (gulp) generational miscue? Hope not.
After posting pictures of hot chicks, one can just do what I did...say the word "baseball" at the end of the entry and you're covered.
Or, if you really want to be sneaky, you can post a picture of Leeann Tweeden -- since she's dating Josh Beckett, it's definitely baseball-related.
And remember, chicks dig the long ball...(or, is that people with balls dig chicks?)
Or, if you really want to be sneaky, you can post a picture of Leeann Tweeden -- since she's dating Josh Beckett, it's definitely baseball-related.
And remember, chicks dig the long ball...(or, is that people with balls dig chicks?)
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