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April 19, 2007
Lots of interesting stuff going on in the world of the baseball; just not a whole lot of it involves the Red Sox:
BACK ON TOP: Tim Wakefield was superb as the Red Sox again took over possession of first place in the A.L. East . . . Jonathan Papelbon wasn't as superb, but if a hit and a walk and three strikeouts constitute a subpar outing from your closer, I'll take it . . . Steven Krasner, the author of the two previous stories, goes Inside The Game.
COME ON BACK: We'll be talking to Steve on Projo Sports Talk today at noon. And Steve will be blogging before, during and after this afternoon's game in Toronto.
YOU ARE THERE: The blog "A Red Sox Fan In Pinstripe Territory" posts some pictures from the Rogers Centre.
FIRST OF THE YEAR: Congratulations, Mark Buerhle! (Chicago Sun-Times)
LOST EVENING: Two no-hitters on the same date? Well, the Padres say David Wells had no-hit stuff last night. But he didn't get a no-hitter, he didn't get a decision, and he didn't even get to stay around until the end of the game; he was ejected for arguing a call from the dugout in the 12th inning in the Padres' loss to the Diamondbacks. Wells has always had a penchant for shifting the blame to the umpires -- I remember him claiming he blew up in a game against the Red Sox in 1998 because the plate umpire blew a 1-and-1 call to John Valentin, causing him to lose his concentration -- and last night was no different. ("I had to get six outs in the seventh, which is very, very tough to do.") But he also said first-base umpire Doug Eddings rubbed his belly in a "you're fat" gesture, something Eddings denies, which Wells called "stepping over the line. When the umpire makes a gesture, I think that's personal." Ah, Boomer. Life's never dull, is it? (San Diego Union-Tribune)
INTO THE FIRE: The Yankees finally have their weekend rotation set: Andy Pettitte on Friday, Jeff Karstens on Saturday and Chase Wright on Sunday. (Newsday)
CRUEL FATE: One start after looking absolutely unhittable against the Red Sox -- and, really, looking as if he were at the very beginning of a Hall of Fame career -- Felix Hernandez had to leave last night's start in the first inning because of elbow tightness. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
NOT MY CONCERN: Bill James gives David Pinto a couple of theories on why so many long-term contracts were handed out last winter (baseballmusings.com), and one of them -- "The GMs who made the deals probably won't last until the end of the deal, so it's going to be someone else's problem'' -- is a little scary if you're worried about the long-term health of an organization.
DREAM SEQUENCE: It's the radio-personality version of hitting the lottery -- get into a fight with the manager and become a national story. (Philadelphia Inquirer) But Howard Eskin says that was never his intent, no, no.
NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE: Howard Eskin is the least of Charlie Manuel's problems; he just got the dreaded vote of confidence from his boss. And, oh, just to make life a little more interesting for Charlie, Ryan Howard may have a serious knee injury. (Both stories, Philadelphia Inquirer). Excuse me, Jimmy Rollins? You may want to rethink your preseason prediction.
LET'S GO TO THE TAPE: Ozzie Guillen proves he never said he was going to order his pitchers to hit Sammy Sosa. Wouldn't have been out of charcter, though, would it? (Daily Southtown)
OLD FRIENDS: Mike Gonzalez, a member of the Red Sox system for a couple of weeks in 2003 (and someone they attempted to trade for last winter), has come down with a bad elbow (mlb.com) . . . Bill Simmons used to call his hang-dog look "the Derek Lowe Face." Apparently, that's what the Dodgers saw a lot of last night in Colorado (Los Angeles Daily News) . . . Dave Roberts has a mild cause of food poisoning (San Francisco Chronicle) . . . Adam Stern is back in the minors after spending two days with the Orioles (Baltimore Sun) . . . Josh Bard is recovering from his groin injury (San Diego Union-Tribune) . . . Jay Payton may return to the Orioles' lineup this weekend (Washington Post).
AND FINALLY . . . It's tough to link to PawSox stories when they keep getting rained out. But today we had a nice feature on Bobby Scales, to go with yesterday's look at Davern Hansack.
-- ART MARTONE
Posted by Art Martone 
at 7:12 AM | Permalink
redsock | April 19, 2007 8:06 PM link
Hey Art:
Those Jays pix are actually mine!! Jere (at the blog you linked to) is trying to get "correspondents" to take and semd him pictures of road games. I'm his Toronto correspondent.