Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Baseball "ruminations"

1. I am a day late on this but I do see that Kyle Farnsworth has blown another game giving up a walk-off home run Sunday which is his third loss in less than 2 weeks. He now has an ERA of 18.90. Aren't guaranteed contracts swell? I am going to leave this alone for now as it is like shooting fish in a barrel.

2. I know the Nationals are not very good and it was a Monday night game but the highlights of this game seem to show that it was played in a virtually empty stadium; and a new one at that. Something has to give there. Hand out 10 for 1 vouchers at the Washington Monument or something.

3. The box score shows David Ortiz with a triple. Gotta check the highlights as this would seem to have to involve a cringe-inducing misplay by an outfielder.*

*As it turns out center fielder, Felix Pie made an ill-advised attempt to try and catch the ball at the wall when he had probably no chance and the ball bounced off the wall to no-man's land. Ortiz lumbers to third where he desperately begs the third base coach for oxygen.

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