"barbecues for grillin'"

Bobby Flay is attending?

A pirate walks into a bar, the bartender says to him, "Hey buddy, do you know there is a steering wheel on your belt buckle?"

The pirate responds, "Aye matey, it's drivin' me nuts."

[That joke is way more fun to say aloud!]

bartender say to him that no dogs are allowed

the man says my dog can talk

bartender says if he can talk he can stay

the man turns to his dog and asks "who is the greatest ballplayer ever?"

the dog responds "ruth" and the bartender throws them out

once outside, the dog turns to his master and says "ya think maybe I should have said gehrig?

http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/08/exclusive_nbcs_latest_olympian.php

I might bring a cricket bat and some tennis balls if ya'll want to see how the other half lives. Still rummaging through for a scorebook for Bob. :)

Bob, I am sure crustmaking is one of the 100.

I guess I'll miss it this year. :(

I I R I R R I R I I R...

I'm going to only my 2nd Dodger game of this season tonight. Hopefully my nine month old daughter can make it through the whole game.

I'll bet most of you don't know there was a fourth Alou brother who played pro ball.

Alas, he changed his last name to Powell, as Boog Alou caused far too much snickering from the stands...

50 - RMON does not answer letters.

I love how you ordered those reasons! :)

What are the 2 sexiest animals in the barn?

Brown chicken brown cow

Bleee-ach!

...

Def Leppard

"What do you like most about me?" a wife asked her husband. "My pretty face or my sexy body?"

"I like your sense of humor," he replied.

Count us in for wiffle ball!

My friend and I are trying to attend 5 games in 5 pro ballparks this weekend and the picnic would be a nice additional to our agenda.

I think my wife feels like going to the picnic would be equal to affirming the amount of time I spend on this blog :) And, she might head to Santa Barbara instead.

:(

On the other hand, if a reliever comes in with one out and gets two outs without giving up a run, that should be 2/3 scoreless for him.

So I guess I would not count any inning thirds if a run scored at any point during said inning, regardless of who gave up the run.

Are you cold and shamed, lying naked on the floor?

it's just a matter of determining when the run was scored, before/after which out. if it's in between the second and third out, then it's zero. if it's between the first and second, it's a third; before the first, two thirds.

I'll get there early to help out BH too.

Batter A walks.
Batter A steals second.
Batter B sacrifices; Batter A to 3B
Batter C grounds out to 2B; Batter A scores

In this case the outs were used to get the run home. It's 0 scoreless innings in my book.

Kemp, CF
Ethier, RF
Kent, 2B
Ramirez, LF
Loney, 1B
Martin, C
Garciaparra, SS
Blake, 3B
Kuroda, P

Hershier broke Drysdale's record 20 years after it was set, and since then Brandon Webb has come within 2 complete games of breaking the record in 2007.

Both records are certainly difficult, in the modern era only a few pitchers have ever had 40+ consectutive scoreless innings. But given the number of batters that have had all these years to go after Dimaggio and only one in 67 years completing 79% of the record, I would think that the pitching record will fall again before the hitting streak even gets close to being broken.

Batter B strikes out
Batter B hits a home run
Pitching Change
Batter C grounds out
Batter D flies out.

Why shouldn't the second pitcher get credit for those two scoreless outs?

N. McLouth
A. LaRoche
A. LaRoche

http://www.insidesocal.com/dodgers/2008/08/early-birds-are.html

If you count the fractions, his streak ought to be 60 innings.

And that is a lesson in how to ruin an already weak joke.

If I do make it, I'll be the one with a freshly-turned two-year-old (today - YAY!) and the 10-year-old who is six feet two inches tall. That's right, you heard correctly, he is 6'-2"!!

Following in Sandy Allen's footsteps, I suppose...

I actually didn't hear it but was told so by a reliable interlocutor.

I say this so you realize, I am not even the messenger here. I am less than a messenger!

The postseason innings don't count because, what, they're not challenging enough?

A "lessenger", if you will.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=5765

Belliard is OPSing .782 this year. It wouldn't be a horrible trade.

Well I don't know much about that.

But that doesn't explain why Belliard instead of Pete Orr . . .

I know, the Nationals are a real powerhouse.

Belliard is signed through 2009, he has about $400K left for this year and a $1.9 salary for 2009.

Oh, well.

135 That's less appealing.

2. 1/3 innings should count even if they produce outs that lead to future runs. Let's say there is a walk, steal and a groundout leaving a runner at 3rd with one out. The one out should not count any differently whether the pitcher then retires the next two batters without giving up a run or not.

3. Sorry, I also disagree that postseason games should count towards streaks and definitely not towards records. I feel postseason games are managed differently than regular season games and there is no doubt in my mind that when a player has any kind of semi-major streak going on during the regular season, the manager does everything he can to keep that streak going. To me, this is too big a conflict.

I wish I didn't sound so contrarian. Half an hour more until I leave work and head to the stadium. Can't wait. Good lineup and no complaints on Belliard unless he plays over Raffy or Nomar or Blake or Loney.

I wouldn't cry too many tears over losing a Josh Wall type prospect. Although I believe that Nate or Canuck, or both, think more highly of Wall than I do. The guy throws hard but hasn't shown any signs of putting it all together.

Also, are you still on the fence about the Manny trade or have you decided that you like it or not? Does making the postseason factor into the equation or is it about the decision at the time?

oh yes! [knotting head up & down]

I can't judge a trade two weeks later when the real effects won't be seen for years and Manny is putting up unsustainable video game numbers.

Carlos Quentin's 6 games with a HBP. No other player since at least 1956 has as many as 4.

Trevor Hoffman's 226 games with no more than 1 inning pitched.
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/HKHq

Surprise, and surprise.

Andy LaRoche might get to a couple of all-star games, but that doesn't mean we over paid for Manny. It just means that LaRoche was able to grab hold of a situation that allowed him to play everyday.

I just knew that someday this year Sturtz would find his way onto our roster once we signed him.

This is what should have been done with that big strikeout fellow from Cincinnati.

Of course this means Stults or Johnson gets a start. Eh, still!

Have a great time.

Unpopular opinion, I realize, but I think that the Lazenby Bond flick is probably the most intense and personal of all of them. I adore "From Russia With Love" for its straightforwardness and general air of Cold War-era hipness, but I get very tired of the "Goldfinger" style of comic-book James Bond movies. "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is such a departure from the previous flick (the silly "You Only Live Twice"), and it's a shame that they did not continue in this direction.