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Sports Illustrated.com has started a new baseball blog on their site called Fungoes, which will rotate through seven writers and all six divisions over the course of each week of the 2007 baseball season. Among those seven writers are our founder Alex Belth, who will cover the AL East, fellow Toaster Jon Weiseman, who will cover the NL West, and myself as the seventh man tackling a random baseball topic of my choosing every Friday under the "Wild Card" header.
Alex's posts will appear every Monday. Check out his first post from this past Monday, in which Alex muses about Opening Day from an AL East perspective. My first post is up today and takes a look at the historical significance of the Arizona Diamondback's new uniforms (with apologies to Paul Lukas). Mr. Weisman's first effort, meanwhile, focused on the underrated Colorado Rockies (with apologies to Mark T.R. Donohue, I'm sure).
I hope you'll all join us over there in addition to your regularly scheduled programming here on Baseball Toaster. And don't be shy about dropping some comments over at SI, either.
Yo, kidding. Great to see you and Alex extending your reach.
Will you provide a link to Fungoes on the Banter blog roll? Can't seem to find a link from the SI.com site?. Is there one?
The uniform piece is a blast, Cliff. That Pirates tank top is fuggin hideous.
The topic of ugly uniforms always reminds me of that scene from Cheech and Chong (goes something like this):
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-Hey, man, I can't wear this stuff, man.
-This is terrible, man.
-Look, it don't even fit.
-No, baby, you clean as Skeeter's peter. You just don't understand the new style.
-It's too short, man.
-We'll just make a few minor adjustments, homes.
- Hold it, man. I can't wear this.
-Hey, these uniforms are lame, man.
-What you mean lame, sucker?
-Seriously, man, these look like waiter uniforms.
-You don't like them, man?
- No.
-He's right, man. These are lame.
-This is the new cut. Y'all be bad.
-If we're going to wear uniforms, man, let's everybody wear something different.
- Yeah, that's it. Everybody wears
something different but the same, you know?
Bloggers like you two (though you two most of all) have really helped bring me back to baseball as a huge fan - thanks so much, and it just keeps getting better!
Anyhow, thanks for adding to Suggested Reading. I keep going back to your 2007 Campers post there.
Keep those keyboards crankin.
My local cable company (buckeye cablesystem) isn't carrying EI! Just called them up and the girl who answered the phone said they don't have the rights -- she didn't seem to know of the deal between MLB & the cable companies. So I told her that if they didn't get it, I was going to go with DirecTv. Then she said that DirecTv didn't have a deal with EI either!! I'm not sure what planet she is living on.
So I'm ditching cable & getting DirecTv after all. And they are coming out on Sunday (yup, Easter Sunday) afternoon. Heck, I could have had it Sunday morning, but I wanted to sleep in. Oy.
Does it break the record for most links in a blog post?
8 She surely doesn't live on the Yankees Planet.
Texas: 2-3-0 vs. Red Sox 0-3-1
Wakefield was good, but the Sox offense was bad.
Robinson Tejada is really good when hitting his spots.
The sox just couldn't drive the fastball today and popped up alot.
If and D doesn't shift on Ortiz they are making a big mistake.
Strangely, Tejada lived off the fastball UP in the zone.
Wakefield was very lucky and Blalock just missed 2 homers to right by inches.
Okajima showed alot of effort in his delivery.
Kyle Snider had a great curve and it made me wonder about using Rasner in the pen after Wang comes back in place of Mike Myers. Rasner is pretty much Snider with a little more control and a much better change.
The Rangers are better off with Otsuka closing then Gagne.
You can run in Mirabelli really easily.
Crisp is a very bad defender and Lowell (yesterday excepted) is very good.
Lugo looks like a upgrade on D but a downgrade on offence (yes he looked tha bad).
Small sample size applies to all that but it made me wonder about throwing the fastball to the sox. Ortiz especially was having alot of trouble catching up to 92mph fastballs.
And I wouldn't start throwin' up fastballs to Ortiz just yet. He (like Manny) is a notoriously slow starter. Might have something to do with his weight issues...
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