1947 was a very good year.

Grady Little strikes me as the jigsaw puzzle type so I feel confident. I hope affirms this and passes last year's bullpen off as a rubix cube.

Little suggested to reporters that he would like Pierre "to be more patient and get on base more."

But you don't often shell out $44 million to a free-agent player, then tell him to change. If you didn't like his game, why give him $44 million?

Where are the pronoun police when they are really needed?

Furcal: 3.89
Pierre: 3.44
Nomar: 3.13

http://tinyurl.com/yvpaar

Apparently I don't "know" a whole lot.

"In the parking lot behind third base, O'Malley built a heart-shaped lake for his wife, Kay. He stocked the lake with trout so that his players could fish."

Freshwater trout in Florida? Um, unlikely, unless the lake water is somehow kept below the high 60 degree range (preferably upper 50s-low 60s). Trout can't tolerate water much above 68 and die at 70. Some other kind of fish, probably.

Course, story says he stocked the lake with trout.  It doesn't say they survived.

Stay tuned for other extremely profound observations. Maybe.

Boutros Boutros Brock.

It gets a thumbs up from me.

http://extrapolater.wordpress.com/2007/02/23/storming-the-court-for-dummies/

Wilson Betemit: 4.01

Mr B

>>> always has been and will always be
>>>>Billy Eckstein

My high school band director put me on mellophone (the marching edition of a french horn, barely deserves to be called an instrument) my freshman year, since I joined at the last minute (I was a trumpet player in middle school). The first horn he gave me had a jammed tuning slide, and I gave it to him to get it fixed, since I didn't know that it would never play in tune anyway. But he had to give me another horn, so I got this other one. The rest of them were all silver colored, but this one was a yellowy brass color, and it was already called the Brass Monkey. At the time, I shared not only my first name, but also my last name with another guy in the band, so I needed a nickname. The full version was "Brass Monkey," but for the most part, it was "Monkey."

As for the stolen part, that's the origin of the horn, which I learned as our band director was telling us the importance of putting a name and address label on our instruments. On one spring band trip, the band came back with more horns than it brought over, and it wasn't labeled. They called the place, but nobody claimed it, so they kept it. They of course new it wasn't one of theirs because it wasn't silver.

The 86 part is just the year I was born.

Was very fun, in a please-someone-throw-me-down-a-well sort of way.

That was by far the best episode ever. It gave me more than my usual smile and got me actually laughing with a silly sitcom.

39: And how! (Also, the whole adventure transpired in the middle of a declared snow emergency.)

But the kids got put up on the video screen during the Dance Cam segment and really, they were so happy it was pretty great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZByndN_ffyw

concerning betemit and laroche... if both players prove they can hit, they'll both be dodgers. when kent retires at the end of the year, betemit will shift to second base. if we can stand jeff kent's defense at 2b because of his bat, we can do that with a 25/26yr old betemit with that kind of power potential. it'll work itself out in the end. the best players will play.

thats one thing i like about grady. it seems he gives everyone a chance to succeed.

Do you think Grady has the stones to ever take the starting job from Pierre...?

http://tinyurl.com/3akle4

Next week:
LA schools in Washington
Arizona schools in SF Bay Area
Beavers at Ducks Saturday

Guess where much of his lunches every day came from?

For the complete "Speed Racer" effect he needs to change his name to "Diamond Run" or "Diamond Ball" or something of the like.

UCLA has clinched #1 seed in Pac-10 Tournament.

Likely matches for seeding in Pac-10 Tournament.

1. USC @ Washington State for second seed.
2. Arizona @ Stanford for a 4th or 5th seed.
3. ASU @ California, a Cal win may get them 7th.
4. Oregon State @ Oregon, an Oregon win guarantees no worse than 5th, best possible finish is 4th.

After this week of upsets, AP and Coaches poll will probably have UCLA at No. 2, WSU around 15-18th, Oregon 18th-20th, and USC 24-25th.