The trading deadline is always interesting. The Nomah trade really surprised me though. I thought (hoped) that Seattle would move Boone and Guardado, they are just wasting money on them at this point.
Sports Archives
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I played volleyball on Tuesday for the first time since moving from the Bay Area. I used to play at least once a week, but the long layoff has certainly taken my legs from me. My body is quite sore. In the Bay Area, the leagues and open gyms are indoors all year and there…
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I participate in two fantasy baseball keeper leagues and it’s been a season of patience in both of them. In the league I run, I was down in the bottom 3 spots after the first month and frankly, it didn’t look good. I thought I’d had a good draft, but my guys just weren’t producing.…
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I posted a couple of video clips of my swing in my Golf blog. I’ve actually got the clips stored on my TextDrive account. The TextDrive account seems to be very nicely set up. I’m mainly planning to use it for extra storage and bandwidth. Let me know if you have any trouble accessing the…
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A perfect game at age 40, amazing! Like most Mariners fans, I have very fond memories of Randy Johnson’s wonderful performance down the stretch and in the post-season back in 1995.
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For the first time in months, I took the whole weekend off. I went to the Rockies/Phillies game on Saturday and went golfing today. Of course there was plenty of boxes to unpack and stuff to set up around the house, but it was definitely good to get a little time away from the computer.…
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I’ve often wondered why teams don’t move their best hitters up in the lineup more. I think many teams would be better off throwing their mediocre #2 hitter in the #9 spot and moving everyone else up a spot. This would give an incremental number of additional at bats to the team’s best hitters over…
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I’m watching the Mariners/Yankees game right now, I just love listening to Dave Niehaus. All the Fox Sports Net channels were blacked out when they had baseball games on so I cancelled the “PLUS” part of my Dish service and got the baseball package. So far so good. 🙂 Gil Meche has a great arm…
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I was out helping a friend shop for a new TV today and caught some footage of Harold Reynolds talking on ESPN. I like Harold Reynolds, I remember him as the second baseman for the Mariners when I was growing up in Seattle. That said, he was spewing some real non-sense today. (Paraphrased) On-base percentage…
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The one area I knew would be solid for my fantasy baseball team was my pitching, particularly my ERA and WHIP. This is because I was keeping 5 of the top 10 (or top 12-15 depending on who you read) starting pitchers: Pedro Martinez Curt Schilling Tim Hudson Barry Zito Johan Santana Then Pedro goes…
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We powered through our fantasy baseball draft tonight. I’m pretty pleased with my team, though I wasn’t as prepared as I should have been. I’d like to have one more closer and a little more speed, but I should do well in the percentage categories and my starting pitchering rotation is pretty much untouchable. I…
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I took some photos at the day baseball games I went to last week in Arizona. Here are some of the better ones. The first game was at in Peoria, AZ; we were sitting in the bleachers along the third baseline. We were pretty close to the action here, I didn’t have to crop much…
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We leave tonight for our annual Spring Training trip: 4 days of baseball and golf in the Arizona sun. 😎 I’m bringing my PowerBook so I can respond to support questions, set up free trials and fulfill sales of Tasks Pro™, but other e-mails may not get replied to for a few days. It somewhat…
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Last night was the deadline for the guys in my fantasy baseball league to turn in their keeper lists. This is the 4th season of this league and I’m looking forward to it. I’ve been able to win the last couple of years but the teams in 2-10 have scrambled up a bit. I had…
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A-rod to the Yankees for Soriano. According to the story, Alex Rodriguez (one of the best defensive shortstops in the game) will move to third base so Derek Jeter (one of the worst defensive shortstops in the game) can remain at short. It isn’t even close when you look at the stats. Hmm, I guess…
