Monday's Frosty Mug

I really enjoyed that show—it’s so much better to listen to beat writers who (generally) know their teams inside and out and will tell it like it is, rather than hearing talking heads spout off ridiculously uninformed opinions or managers and players give a bunch of safe, meaningless cliches.

Now, if XM decided to cut MLB games themselves (not that I think they will), that’d be the end of me. Life’s too short to spend a baseball season without Bob Uecker.

Corey had the highest number of innings plus he played in the All Star game and engaged in the hoopdeedoo to get him there. Hopefully that means a big part of his stinky second half was fatigue. Cameron actually managed to get his innings total pretty high considering his early suspension. As much as the howling at the “Sunday lineup” is predictable, I hope the bench gets more play this year.

The Michael Bourne thing is a giant red flag to the quality of data coming out of BIS and STATS. What happens that produces such disparate results? Can it be positioning?

Following that link to the story in Slate sure is depressing. I wonder how serious Cordero’s injury was or if anyone even knows. I love the part about showing the MRI to five different guys to get a vote of sorts on what is wrong.

What do Alcides Escobar and Dave Bush have in common? They both seem to have pictures used with odd expressions and/or contortions. The lead picture on the website today has Alcides making playing SS look easy the captions says. But what about that grip?

The link goes to Haudricourt writing about the team and gives a top prospects list. What is interesting is that it isn’t the one that TH provided as they reserve the editorial right to substitute. TH also related in a radio show how they changed his future lineup to have Rickie Weeks in CF rather than “LoCain.”