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Whoa, the M's sweep the Tigers in Detroit! Watch out BoSox. Darn the luck it will be the back end of the rotation, but as this could be it for the year as far as winning optimism for M's fans goes, I gotta ride it.

I'm visiting my folks and found my original copy. Unfortunately I no longer have anything to play it on.

Thanks for starting it. Jazz, blues or classical, you're involved in many a good recommedation thread.

Not sure. I was going to guess the '84 Tigers as they started 9-0 and were 35-5 to open. Pretty bitchin' eh? But they lost at home in the 10th game.

Wow, can't top the above! Happy birthday!

Yippie-yi-yo and a happy birthday! (Sorry about the tooth.)

I'm considering borrowing the Royals for this season at least. Because of Bill James, Rob Neyer and Joe Posnanski I actually got sick of the Royals getting so much ink for so little quality baseball. But James hasn't really written a ton about the Royals since the '80s and Neyer disappeared (at least from my haunts), and I've been skipping Pos's articles for a year anytime they're Royal specific. So no more Royal fatigue for me! And Billy Butler reminds me of Charlie Brown which is reason enough to root for a team. And if they fail I'll just jump onto the Indians bandwagon. I'll still check in on the Mariners though I have yet to listen to a radio broadcast. I'm still in denial about Neihaus and will have to face up to that eventually. In the meantime I'll cruise the airwaves with the iPhone app.

Cliff Lee was once sent down after being a starter for 3 full seasons and at an older age than Hughes. And when he came back he was CLIFF LEE. While there's no guarantee he'll have that kind of a dramatic improvement it's obviously a necessary move, and who knows, maybe it'll straighten him out. But there was a huge difference in the reasons why each were sent down. Lee was sent down because of location issues. He never had a problem w/ his velocity. Good point. It's just our Yankee fans here fret so much I was just trying to make them feel optimistic for a change. Whew, the Red Sox are playing mighty earlier this morning if you live on the west coast. I feel like such a slacker.

Oh enough about the games. What's really important is the Coca Crisp has gone Oscar Gamble!

Seattle's LF & CF is atrocious while they wait for Gutiérrez to get over his gut problems. In the meantime Langerhans has 10 strikeouts in 22 AB (at least 3 of his hits are HRs.) He's had a long career of doing nothing. Michael Saunders doesn't look ready for the majors either. I'm not sure if they intend to bring up James Jones once we get midway into May for the usual contract reasons or if M's fans have to suffer with guys who seem to be using whiffleball bats.

You'll be busy keeping up with Point Guard U! Jrue in Philly, Westbrook with the Thunder. The '6ers played the Heat well for a quarter and change.

I wouldn't go crazy about him. He came into Citifield batting .214 and courtesy of the Mets pitching left hitting .360. Oh I beg to differ. He's already established that he's a star ss and he's hitting his prime (now 26, turns 27 in Oct.) There's some of that Colorado altitude in his stats but not in the extreme of the days before the humidor. However I don't think he'll hit 80 homers or whatever crazy pace he's on.

Troy is playing out of his mind over in Colorado. I don't see how the Giants even make the playoffs with Tejada at ss. I'd be afraid the pitchers will get too hung up on Ks to keep batted balls away from him.

Cliff Lee was once sent down after being a starter for 3 full seasons and at an older age than Hughes. And when he came back he was CLIFF LEE. While there's no guarantee he'll have that kind of a dramatic improvement it's obviously a necessary move, and who knows, maybe it'll straighten him out.

That's an excellent analysis! Hard to argue with that data, too. The graph for Darrell Evans was especially neat. He was part of the '73 Braves where 3 players hit 40 HRs. At 38 he and Fisk both had huge "old age" HR spikes. Yet with Darrell you can see that it was a league-wide jump in HRs, not just an individual 'roidy thing. He's kind of the poster boy for SABR where it showed a guy could hit .243 yet be more valuable than a .280 hitter because of his power, walks and for a time defense. Thanks for the link Vajerzy, I hadn't come across that one before.

No doubt about it. You've had many all-stars and few hall of famers on teams over the decades but (and no disrespect to those playoff teams in the '90s) nothing quite like this. Have fun adjusting as you've paid your dues & then some!

You can just feel those Mariners breathing down your neck now can't ya?

Here's the AUD patch info on the Charlie Miller version of 11/21/73: Sony Stereo Mic -> Master Cassette -> CD (shnid=22096) supplies: Me And My Uncle (0:17 - 0:19) Dire Wolf (3:11 - 3:13) They Love Each Other (2:29 - 2:50) Let It Grow (2:33 - 2:58) Playing In The Band d2t08 (2:34 - 2:54) Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad (4:40 - 5:05) And seeing how I have something lesser than Charlie's, this is worth it to have the "Let It Grow," "Playing" & "GDTRFB" fixed. Plus those precious 2 seconds of "Me & My Uncle."

I've wondered about him too given the muscles and the increase in power. For what's it's worth Jose Canseco says he has no knowledge of Rickey using. Hmm, a weird typo by me - I originally wrote Ricey. I'd better be clear for our Red Sox fans - no rumors at all that Jim Rice did 'roids. Nope, he faded out at age 36. Silly guy, didn't he realize power hitters peak when they turn 37?

Ah, I'll have to check mine for that. When I think of fall '73 cuts of death the 10/30 St. Louis show is especially cruel. This Denver show I think is much better than the OKC DP 19 (10/19/73). They did it right by making this the full show and including the 2nd set meaty* bite from the other night. *Beef reference is in honor of Owsley.

And how. And he's just a fill-in, at least for now.

And as Texas is slugging .603, it'll be interesting to see how the O's staff handles them.

Boy that off-the-charts 1/2 season with the Dodgers reeks of being a product of pharmacology. I'll miss him as he was highly entertaining, though as a fan I never had to deal with his pouting on my team.

Vikings ate a lot of kale. You gonna call a viking a pansy? Though they probably didn't eat it in chip form. And since this is the Willamette Valley, of course I've had kale growing over winter in the garden.

Good thing they scored so many as that Roy fellow needs heavy offensive support. Well something has to give by at least Monday for the winless Rays & Red Sox. Assuming neither team has won by then.