In 2003, Steve Schmoll graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Biological Resources Engineering, about 40 of which are given by the University each year. Courses required for this degree include:

MATH 246: Differential Equations for Scientists & Engineers
MECH ENGINEERING 232: Thermodynamics
CIV ENGINEERING 305: Basic Fluid Mechanics
MATH 241: Calculus III
BIO. RESOURCES ENGINEERING 422: Water Resources Engineering
BIO. RESOURCES ENGINEERING 456: Biomedical Instrumentation
ENGLISH 393: Technical Writing
BIO. RESOURCES ENGINEERING 482: Dynamic Biological Systems
BIO. RESOURCES ENGINEERING 486: Capstone Design II

Schmoll was named to the Atlantic Coast Conference's Athletic Honor Roll (which recognizes athletes with at least a 3.0 GPA) in 2000, 2001, and 2003. Schmoll graduated in 2003 with an overall GPA of 3.66, but decided to put off medical school until after his baseball career.

"Basic Fluid Mechanics" – See, who ever said schoolwork can't help you in baseball?

The Padres are having Blum lead off and playing 3rd with Jesse Garcia at shortstop batting 8th.

The Dodgers 2-3 hitters are a combined 8 for 60 with 1 HR. Choi and Drew do have 12 walks between them.

And I don't even know who that is.

Vin Scully "Weaver knows the ups and downs of baseball. He was 13-13 last year. That's an E-ride at Disneyland."

Say Bill Plaschke will be speaking at the LA Times Festival of Books this coming Saturday at UCLA if you want to go out and chew the fat with him. He will be on a panel with Frank Deford. Deford is out flacking his new book (or is flakking?) about Mathewson and McGraw, which hasn't received good reviews so far.

Anyone else remember that show?

Anyone remember the sitcom that Vin was the narrator for?

Go figure.

I will not be starting a daily Xavier Cugat factoid.

It's missing 3-1 pitches like Choi just did that make me wonder if this just isn't going to work.

I don't know. It's a mystery.

And Bradley. Wow.

Not that I'm claiming to be clairvoyant or anything, but I AM starting to have higher expectations about this club than I had on opening day.

Kent looks like gold.
Milton looks he might bust out this year.

Earlier Charlie said that Ramon Hernandez began hitting well when he came to the National league but Hernandez was an all-star catcher his last year in Oakland because he had a terrific year at the plate.

GO BEARS!

speaking of which, there are a few playing in today's game... nady, blum, and kent. did i miss any?

Of course, the only thing that could make this more of a dream is if a scantily clad Juliette Binoche was watching the games with me. And let's face it, that just ain't gonna happen.

Anyone seen Plaschke lately?

Nice home stand.

What does that mean? He thinks they made great pickups but once they cool off they were lousy moves? This is the quality analysis we get from a world class sports network.

a) the Dodgers continue to pway gweat (as my young nephew would say) and...

b) once again, the comments on DT are stellar. Take a group bow, one and all. I taped the game but re-reading the comments I actually miss being at the desktop while listening to radio.

Anywho, I missed doing the infamous...
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TODAY'S FACT OF CHOI, SB'S FAVORITE PLAYER, 2005:

And once again, it has to be short for time's sake (my turn to cook dinner).

Five somewhat trivial yet somewhat interesting things about our hero:

1. Like J.D. Drew, he didn't start playing baseball until he was twelve. An uncle who noticed that Hee-Seop was growing like seaweed also knew the local little league coach in Chun-Nam.

2. He is apparently an excellent basketball player.

3. His parents were not big on providing soft drinks so like any young man denied in his youth, Hee-Seop came to America and got addicted to Mountain Dew. He drank so much before one game he got dehydrated and, no joke, had to be hospitalized for fluid replenishment.

4. You know by now Choi refuses to use an interpreter. The last season he had one was also his best, at Single A Lansing. He hit .321 with 18 homers, 70 RBI--in 290 ABs. He also had 50 walks. He had an OPS of 1.032. Hmmmmmm....

5. I knew that Choi has called Leon Lee about once a week since Lee signed him to the Cubs. I did not know that Choi refers to Lee as his "American grandfather."

The second I found out more about Lee's legal situation, I will let you all know. Whether it's a tragic or pathetic story, I don't know but judging from Lee's past and his exemplary behavior in Japan, the former would seem to be the case.

Feel free to replace "Mountain Dew" with "High Fastball, Up and In" if you must be negative and hurtful towards our young Korean visitor.

(I still believe in you, Hee-Seop).

Say, I wonder if Chris Mihm can play 1b...

Was he admitted Code Red?

Thank you...I'm here all week, folks.

Long story short, someone asked him about the Dodgers and he said if they continue to play well, he'll look like a dope. I have no doubt in my mind that Olney is a dope, but it is nice to see him state the he could have been wrong.

In honor of Buster, he is no longer #2 on my bad columnists list. It isn't because he said anything nice about the Dodgers (he didn't), it's just because he can admit to maybe being wrong, unlike someone at the Times.

The sad thing to me is that these guys can go off on Depo (or any GM or manager or whoever) for months on end, and when they are proven wrong, really they just need to say, "Ooops, I was wrong", make a self-defacing joke, and be on their way.

I wouldn't mind the guys at the Times so much if they had one, clear-thinking voice there to balance things out. How much of a treat would it be if the Times had a sabermetrically inclined reporter covering baseball? That guy, I'm sure, would have some truly interesting criticism of Depo from time to time. And there could be some nice back and forth between that writer and the current guys. As it is, I know what I'm going to get everytime I read the Times sports page, which is why I only go there these days if I'm directed there from a more interesting site for information and analysis like this one.

The LA Times says they're supposed to be farmed out to another channel on your cable system, but be prepared to do some browsing.

Ironically, if you live outside of LA and get the MLB Extra Innings package, it will be very to get the game.

As far as I can tell, I think my Cable System (Time-Warner) is just going to NOT black out the game on Extra Innings as they would normally do. None of the other channels are listed as carrying the game.

Perhaps I will have to wait a day to hear what the team of Steiner and Lyons sounds like on TV.

Wednesday's ESPN2 matchup is listed as LAAofA vs. Cleveland Indians... another evening I'll be able to get to some chores done around the house; like replacing the grout in the shower and scrubbing the toilet after my 5 year-old boy is finished using it...

I believe that the game might show up on your local public access channel. But they might have to break in to show a rotating ad for a local tire store.

first, the 1978 team was the first team i really remember, and so garvey was (and still is) my favorite player. in fact, the gcrl name stands for garvey cey russell lopes. so, imagine my surprise/horror when i saw number 6 at first base for the dodgers. granted it was jason grabowski, but still. i believe that garvey's number was not used until jolbert cabrera wore it a couple of years ago. anyway, my point is that it is weird to see numbers 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 15, and 18 being used by regulars (and erickson and bako) when for years it seemed that many of these numbers were possibly "off limits", or maybe it seemed that way because i didn't catch too many games in person or on the worldwide leader. i do recall mitch webster wearing number 20 for a while, before it was retired, and i know about dave roberts and number 30. any thoughts?

i'll save my second observation for later.

I used their Live Chat Support to ask -- much better than calling on the phone. BTW, the game info also appears on the digital cable program guide -- program name is "Dodgers vs Brewers".

My system doesn't even have a channel 698.
I have ones much higher than that. For me the Extra Innings broadcasts are 831-840.

Wednesday the Clippers finish up at New Orleans. Someone would need to give me a large check to watch that one. But to each his own.

It will be interesting next year to see who will get priority on Channel 9: the Lakers or the Dodgers.

timely2base: actually, some papers have started doing the same thing. Well, one: the Seattle P-I gave a weekly feature to Derek Zumsteg ("DMZ") of USSMariner.com, even though the USSM has been pretty harsh on the Seattle papers' M's coverage the last few years. Of course, the P-I's also had a Mariners weblog of its own for the last 3 years, so it may be slightly more progressive than the LAT.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/220063_offwall14.html?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=5

Genuinely asking here; I can see both sides.