6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog: This Morning's Bullets

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

This Morning's Bullets

Waiting for the postseason to start and for enough gumption to start my postseason deconstructions:

Julio Lugo hopes the Blue Jays make a run at him. I would, too, if I were him.
Grady Little will be inducted into the Arizona Fall League Hall of Fame as a manager.
Aramis Ramirez and the Cubs are well on their way to working out an extension, which would probably add two years and an estimated $11M to $15M per year to his existing four-year deal, set to expire after 2008.
The Padres are looking at A-Rod and Adrian Beltre as possible solutions to their third base problems.
Rich Harden gave up six hits and five runs in 3.1 innings in an Arizona instructional league game.
Keith Ginter lost the defensive replacement 2B job to Mark Kiger, who was added to the postseason roster yesterday. Ginter was upset:
"They didn't tell me anything, not even thanks for coming down," said Ginter, who'd spent the entire season at Triple-A Sacramento, where he earned over $1 million. "So this is just another slap in the face." [...] "Just another way of making me jump through hoops and then telling me, 'Forget it,'" he said.
That's baseball, I suppose...
Jeff Weaver will start NLCS Game 1, and shouldn't that be interesting.
Despite earlier punditry otherwise, it looks like Joe Torre will be returning as the Yankees skipper. Okay, Ken, you can put away the guillotine...
Cliff Floyd is done for the postseason with an achilles tendon problem.
Christina Kahrl likes the Tigers in six; the usual ESPN projections are here. Guess Rob Neyer's projection of the Dodgers in seven in the World Series isn't looking so good right now... and not one of their pundits picked the Tigers to advance. (For the record, neither did I.)
Proof that Frank Robinson is a jerk? The Nationals led the majors in hit batters, with 92.
And, yeah, that Tom Candiotti fantasy story (via Deadspin, and today, the Times):
"It's '92 or '93," Candiotti says. "I'm playing for the Dodgers, Jeff Kent is with the Mets. I'm in a fantasy baseball league. I don't have Kent on my team and he's off to a torrid start and he's killing me."
Ramon Martinez is warming up in the Dodgers' bullpen to pitch the series opener. Candiotti strolls to the pen and, within earshot of Martinez, tells pitching coach Ron Perranoski, "Perry, I just talked to Bret Saberhagen, and Sabes told me that if Kent gets drilled his first time up, he's mush for the rest of the series."
"Ramon just absolutely buries one in Kent's ribs," Candiotti says. "It was so bad that he went down on one knee, and he had to come out of the game. I sat there thinking, 'What did you just do? You told a complete lie, you got this guy drilled!'
Just can't stop laughing. Inside, where it doesn't show.
The Ever-Shifting Truth: Kent did not face the Dodgers in 1992, neither as a Met nor as a Blue Jay, and was never hit by a pitch by the Dodgers in 1993, either. Allowing for defective memories, on April 30, 1994, Ramon Martinez did in fact hit Kent in his first at bat of the game, but Kent did not leave the game as a result (he was caught stealing later in the inning).