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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 |
Pickoff Moves, Bedtime Edition
Sean Was A Warden In A Turkish Prison
How else to explain this act of wanton cruelty?Bonds Ready To Go In September
And I'm the Queen of the May.Old News: Angels, Senators At Birth
I completely missed this great piece, kicking off a series of Hardball Times articles about expansion franchises that opens with the Angels and Senators. Despite the Angels rep as a middling, unfocused team (justified, by the way, through most of its existence), they made one of the biggest and best pair of moves in baseball history, simply by snagging Jim Fregosi in the expansion draft. Following the 1971 season, the Angels flipped him for a young, erratic fireballer named Nolan Ryan.The deal would go down in history as one of the all-time heists, as Fregosi was washed up and Ryan was accelerating onto the on-ramp of the Cooperstown Freeway. The mileage the Angels received from the draft selection of Fregosi is staggering.The second part covers the Colt .45's and the Mets, in two parts. Good stuff.
Penance
If the A’s are just going to play like the Angels, I could have rooted for them. They’re much closer to home and I still owe them for beating the Giants in ‘02.
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