http://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mastnto01.shtml

http://tinyurl.com/ypddn5

Kevin Mitchell, Keith's younger brother, crushed a drive to deep left. Our play-by-play man, Mark Soliday, was really playing it up: "There's a drive to deep left. It could be ..."

Then I jumped in and blurted out: "He hit that ball far! That's the longest home run I ever saw." Not a great catch phrase, I admit.

After the inning ended, Mark turned to me and said "Don't ever (explative deleted) interrupt my (explative deleted) home run call again." I could hear the engineer laughing throught the headset.

Play-by-play men do not like having their calls interrupted.

Ken Levine is my new hero. Also, the finishing line that we are not spoiling is my new catchphrase.

I can tell you that, oddly, I felt a lot worse (in the very short term) about having my cat put to sleep than having my parents die, mainly because I didn't have to make an appointment to do it.

Putting an animal to sleep seems very clinical. When a human passes away, it's far more emotional.

She missed the cow.

My dad looked at it as lost income.

Casey, or another cat?

I hate it when pets die. I haven't any really close relatives die yet, so thus far, my pet deaths have been much more traumatic.

I'm pretty sure that if I had to gather my own food, I'd be a strict vegetarian.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90mkillers.phtml

After the horse's initial injury, I had the following letter published in the NY Times.

http://tinyurl.com/2jclsu

(sigh)

Roland (Tampa): Jerry, pulling off the 'stache aint easy, who's got the best one in baseball right now? Don mattingly was always my favorite.

Jerry Crasnick: (1:54 PM ET ) Roland,

This was a lively debate topic during one of my chats last summer. I think the consensus opinion was that Jose Valentin of the Mets has the best porn star mustache in the game.

"Hall of Fame slugger Reggie Jackson and Dodgers knuckleballer Charlie Hough, whose paths crossed when the Yankees' Jackson took Hough deep for his third homer on three pitches in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series, were presented with the 'Willie, Mickey and the Duke Award' for players forever linked. Hough joked that the mammoth shot by Jackson was aided by the wind and that the Yankees had someone with binoculars notify Jackson that the pitch would be a knuckleball.

Funny, my first guess at the three pitchers involved are Happy Hooton, Elias Soto and Hough and Hough would have been the hardest for me to remember.

Part of this is the fact that the Dodgers lost this Series to the Yankees so my memory is fuzzy anyway (I have more bitter memories about the 1978 series since we were ahead 2-0 and if not for Nettles' glove and Reggie's hip maybe we would have won that series) but if you were to say to me Reggie Jackson/Charle Hough, I would have not immediately come up with that moment but maybe its just me.

Steve Sax turns 47 today ...

I just saw that they killed Barbaro :(

Video : Radio Star :: Avarice : Barbaro

http://preview.tinyurl.com/35297m (it's an mpg file)

"Your etymology moment: a 'pig in a poke' was a suckling pig sold sight-unseen in a burlap sack, which could easily be substituted for a wriggling cat. On opening, the cat would then be let out of the bag, leaving one holding the bag."

Bob?

I was going to say that you posted the exact same joke after I posted the link to the hat story a few days ago.

(I still don't get it.)

I was born in Saginaw, Michigan.
I grew up in a house on Saginaw Bay.
My dad was a poor hard working Saginaw fisherman:
Too many times he came home with too little pay.

I loved a girl in Saginaw, Michigan.
The daughter of a wealthy, wealthy man.
But he called me: "That son of a Saginaw fisherman."
And not good enough to claim his daughter's hand.

Now I'm up here in Alaska looking around for gold.
Like a crazy fool I'm a digging in this frozen ground, so cold.
But with each new day I pray I'll strike it rich and then,
I'll go back home and claim my love in Saginaw, Michigan.

Oh, thanks.

I guess when it comes to references to Simon & Garfunkel, I am a rock.

but you are not this person ...

http://tinyurl.com/yolt32

Saginaw is not the garden spot of Michigan, but I've been told it's better than Midland.

Also, nobody had deigned to spoil the Ken Levine line yet. Bravo, people.

And in-service days are the greatest thing ever.

"I can go deep in this ballpark," Nook pointed out. "There's no walls. I can hit it and just run."

Hah! Also, one of the construction workers said that he once saw Mickey Mantle hit an Inside The Park Home Run at Griffith Stadium. Good stuff.

http://tinyurl.com/2vvxtj

"The Dodgers vs. the Angels – The Dodgers have Vin Scully. The Angels have a better team, a better owner, a manager, a comparable ballpark, more rabid fans, comparable attendance. Do the math. The Dodgers counter all of this by still listing the Angels as "Anaheim" on their out of town scoreboard. Whoooooooh, that'll show 'em."

It is from Dec 3, 2005, if you want to look it up on his blog.

Good stuff indeed ...

Here is a Nats ballpark construction webcam (for those who are into that sort of thing)

http://tinyurl.com/ot6os

Heck, they build 'em all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOK_Sport_%2B_Venue_%2B_Event

Rather than just tell, please feel free to teach me to fish.

I have found that Mantle hit 6 total ITPs and 39 total Griffith Park HRs.