Slow roller down the line late in the game. The ball ended up in the hands of the Sea Dogs third base coach, who ignored a bunch of screaming kids in the front row, flipping it over their heads and causing two older guys to bang into one another pretty hard as they went after [...]
Archive for August 29th, 2009
29 Aug
Promotions, Promotions Everywhere
There is a promotion happening in the next section over, led by Morgan, who carried Kevin Gray’s team in the homerun derby. My wife: “We should be doing that. She’s your friend. Hook it up.” Um, yeah, right. We’re close. Totally. The Fisher Cats are doing a really cool thing. Tonight’s game, as mentioned, was [...]
29 Aug
The Lars Is Wrong
I’m no expert on swings and stuff like that, but Lars Anderson looks technically okay. Good strike zone judgment, worked the count well, decent bat speed – he just doesn’t seem to hit the ball hard. Two popups and a weak groundout. Ryan Kalish, on the other hand, hit the hell out of one to [...]
29 Aug
Lars And The Real Hitter
Sorry about the headline. My wife likes Ryan Gosling’s work. With the score 2-0 New Hampshire, Lars Anderson led off with a weak popout to third on a 2-0 pitch. Luis Exposito followed with a slicing drive down the right field line to cut it to 2-1. Two batters later, Jason Place tied it with [...]
29 Aug
O Say Can You Eat…
There were literally fifteen first pitches before the game. I’ve never seen a catcher take a bucket out to catch the first pitch before. Billy hates the girl two rows in front of us because she was eating during the national anthem. I’m not saying he’s wrong. It’s just funny that every game we go [...]
29 Aug
Bus Leagues Live, Part Two
Once again, I’m live from Merchantsauto.com Stadium in Manchester, watching the Fisher Cats. Tonight, they will be taking on Ryan Kalish, Lars Anderson, and the Portland Sea Dogs. This was originally supposed to be a doubleheader and Daisuke Matsuzaka was supposed to start one of the games, but Tropical Storm Danny took care of that. [...]
29 Aug
Eastern League All-Stars Announced
The Eastern League announced it’s 2009 All-Stars last night. I really want to refer to them as postseason All-Stars, because that’s basically what they are, but the season still has a week to go. Can you have announce postseason All-Stars while the season is still happening? What came first, the chicken or the egg? How [...]
29 Aug
Early Progression Of 2009 First Round Draft Picks
Now that the deadline has passed for 2009 draft picks to sign with their teams, I thought it might be fun to take a look at the first round selections, where they landed, and how they’re doing. 1. Stephen Strasburg, 21, RHP (Washington Nationals) – Expected to make his debut with the Phoenix Desert Dogs [...]
29 Aug
Vote For The USA Today Minor League Player Of The Year
I was looking through the Bus Leagues archives (because there’s no better way to spend a Saturday morning) and saw that last year around this time, Eric directed us to the online voting for USA Today’s Minor League Player of the Year award (Tampa Bay’s David Price eventually won). The newspaper has already named its [...]
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