Billy Paultz Reconsidered

I’m down with the Barnstormers, who if nothing else get me out of the office on Saturday nights. It’s an excellent ballpark in a nice downtown location, and it seems like a well-run, quality organization.
But this is their fifth year and they’ve had exactly one winning half-season. It’s taken nearly three and-a-half hours tonight to play six and-a-half […]

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The weather, the food, the general sense of bonhomie…. it’s been a delightful Fourth of July weekend. Howevah…..
Ryan Howard should not be going to the all-star game. The National League is going with four first basemen- Howard plus Albert Pujols, Adrian Gonzalez and Prince Fielder. Dumb.
Howard has an .845 OPS. Gonzalez’ is .969 is a […]

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I’m at the Barnstormers’ game, and there’s a local physician’s group that threw out ceremonial first pitches (yes, plural) and was also allowed to take a hand mike and, over the stadium PA, essentially do an advertisement for their practice that lasted like 3-4 minutes. What the… People are actually applauding at all the appropriate […]

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Some things that have annoyed/amused/intrigued me lately:
*Re: The Phillies nice win over the Mets Friday. Nobody I heard mentioned that Johan Santana - who averages 200 innings a year and over 100 pitches a game - left a 2-2 game after eight innings having thrown 95 pitches, with a lefthander, Ryan Howard, leading off the ninth. The night […]

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Lots of stuff going on lately - Dad’s in the hospital, the kids’s getting ready to graduate from high school - so blogging has sort of become the odd-activity-out.  We’re live from the press box of York’s Sovereign Bank Stadium before the Barnstormers’ game, with tons of observational-type material stored in the hump….
We tape The Low […]

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The Barnstormers’ season-opening win was impressive for a number of reasons. Two of them: 1. They scored 10 runs while getting nothing from cleanup hitter Matt LeCroy, late of the Minnesota Twins; and, 2. Without overextending starter Zack Parker, who went six innings, they used only three pitchers, all of them effective and none of […]

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