http://www.baseballtoaster.com/ Baseball Toaster blogs en-us Sat, 17 May 2008 08:43:48 PST Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 +0800 support2007@baseballtoaster.com 60 http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987752.html Jerry Crasnick of ESPN.com wrote a piece on showmanship or just plain showing up in baseball. It's nothing that most of us don't remember with stories of Barry Bonds, Al Hrabosky, and Lastings Milledge (something new, you know, for kids). http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987752.html Sat, 17 May 2008 08:43:48 PST http://bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987733.html Scrubway Serious, Take Two: http://bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987733.html Sat, 17 May 2008 06:46:00 PST http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987682.html Eighty-two years ago today, Boston Red Sox lefty pitcher Buster Ross had a bad day in St. Louis. Very bad. http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987682.html Sat, 17 May 2008 06:00:00 PST http://thejuice.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987693.html I will be filling in Sunday night for my friend, Tommy Johnagin, at Crackers in Broad Ripple. Showtime is 8pm. Time to see the evolution of Good Scott/Bad Scott. http://thejuice.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987693.html Fri, 16 May 2008 22:24:00 PST http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987687.html 14 games, 2 postponed. http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987687.html Fri, 16 May 2008 22:23:45 PST http://dodgerthoughts.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987673.html Career EQA, according to Baseball Prospectus: http://dodgerthoughts.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987673.html Fri, 16 May 2008 21:56:00 PST http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987493.html For reasons that are not entirely clear, the Chicago White Sox fired director of player personnel David Wilder and two other scouts in the Dominican Republic for actions in Latin America that were violations of club policy and standards. http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987493.html Fri, 16 May 2008 20:24:52 PST http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987414.html Shawn Chacon of the Astros has run his streak of starts at the beginning of the season without a decision to nine games. http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987414.html Fri, 16 May 2008 19:02:00 PST http://dodgerthoughts.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987351.html Read my fond farewell to Season 4 of The Office at the Season Pass blog on Variety: http://dodgerthoughts.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987351.html Fri, 16 May 2008 17:24:00 PST http://dodgerthoughts.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987205.html Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness passes along the news that Mark Bellhorn is now playing for the Dodgers' AA team in Jacksonville. Or, as Suns director of sales and promotions Casey Nichols somewhat quirkily puts it, "2004 World Series Champion Mark Bellhorn was promoted to Jacksonville from extended spring on May 15, 2008." http://dodgerthoughts.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987205.html Fri, 16 May 2008 13:56:00 PST http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987184.html And I mean the top. Managing general partner and president Peter Magowan is stepping down from his job with the Giants at the end of the year. William Neukom will take over as managing general partner and Larry Baer will be the new president. http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987184.html Fri, 16 May 2008 13:19:23 PST http://bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com/archives/985705.html I'll get to the Mets in a moment, but first, since I've been out of commission this week due to a business trip, here are some thoughts on what ails the Yankees . . . http://bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com/archives/985705.html Fri, 16 May 2008 12:51:00 PST http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987150.html Erstwhile closer and setup man for the Cardinals, Jason Isringhausen has been placed on the 15-day DL with what is described as a right hand laceration. http://griddle.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987150.html Fri, 16 May 2008 12:34:09 PST http://cubtown.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987068.html It's been hard to think clearly about Jim Edmonds, what with the sound of the collective gnashing of teeth roiling through the city. The constant rumbling of it, as if IDOT had decided to simultaneously repave all of the pothole-ridden roads in town, threatens to stifle reasonable thought, and drown out any worthwhile ruminations. http://cubtown.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987068.html Fri, 16 May 2008 11:15:00 PST http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987022.html While I begin my annual attempt to ignore interleague play, there was a minor but extremely odd incident in the Wednesday Milwaukee-LA game upon which I will choose to dwell. http://mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987022.html Fri, 16 May 2008 10:29:47 PST http://bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987009.html As we wait around for what Banterite Sliced Bread calls the Schlubway Serious... http://bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com/archives/987009.html Fri, 16 May 2008 10:17:00 PST http://bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com/archives/986636.html Yankee reliever Edwar Ramirez doesnt look the part of a major leaguer. Hes listed as six feet, three inches tall and 160 pounds, but appears more like 140 pounds with lead weights attached to his ankles. In some ways, he looks like a Latino version of Kent Tekulve, who was often confused with scarecrows during his hey day in the 1970s. And then there are those funky looking glasses that Ramirez wears. Or are they goggles, something like what Chris Sabo used to wear with the Reds? Perhaps weshould call them gloggles. http://bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com/archives/986636.html Fri, 16 May 2008 08:32:00 PST http://cardboardgods.baseballtoaster.com/archives/986852.html Unless Im forgetting something, always a distinct possibility, there is only one former major league city.I'm not counting the borough where I lived for many years,Brooklyn, which is a part of a larger city that from what I understand has major league baseball affiliation of some sort. Of course, the same can no longer be said about Montreal. Big league baseball has left other cities before, such as Baltimore, Milwaukee, Washington, and Seattle, but it always returned to those cities like a guy crawling back to an old girlfriend hed once dumped. http://cardboardgods.baseballtoaster.com/archives/986852.html Fri, 16 May 2008 08:29:00 PST http://dodgerthoughts.baseballtoaster.com/archives/986863.html With the support of most of his staff, Yankee general manager Brian Cashman placed his faith in young pitchers Ian Kennedy and Phil Hughes instead of packaging them in a Johan Santana deal. As Jon Heyman writes at SI.com, Cashman's now taking heat for his decision from new Yankee emperor Hank Steinbrenner. Anyone can see that it's too soon to judge the merits of the decision. http://dodgerthoughts.baseballtoaster.com/archives/986863.html Fri, 16 May 2008 06:45:00 PST http://cubtown.baseballtoaster.com/archives/986861.html That's 6 of the last 7, folks. Home is where the wins are, I suppose. http://cubtown.baseballtoaster.com/archives/986861.html Fri, 16 May 2008 06:39:24 PST