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Can a Raul Mondesi comeback be far behind?
BALTIMORE (AP) - Roger Cedeno agreed to a minor league contract with the Baltimore Orioles after a 1 1/2 -season layoff.
Cedeno has a .273 career average with five teams. He was traded by the New York Mets to St. Louis in April 2004 for Wilson Delgado and released by the Cardinals in June 2005.
If added to the 40-man roster, the 32-year-old outfielder would get a one-year contract that would pay him $500,000 in the major leagues and $100,000 in the minors. He could earn an additional $400,000 in performance bonuses and would get the entire amount if he plays in 120 games and has 550 plate appearances.
I always liked Cedeno - does that make me strange? I guess he was just one of those players where I saw only the good and kept missing the bad.
The most memorable Roger Cedeno play for me was the one in which he fielded an extra-base hit in foul territory at Philly's Veterans Stadium and threw a baserunner out at third base - with the putout registered by a sprawling Mike Piazza.
Except I'm remembering wrong, apparently, according to Retrosheet. I can't find any record of Cedeno making such a play. So who/what was it? Dang it, I'm very frustrated.
By the way, how is it I have no recollection of this game?
Wednesday, July 7, 1993
LAD 000 111 002 000 000 000 01 - 6 17 1
PHI 020 201 000 000 000 000 02 - 7 12 4
What's even stranger is that two days later, I was at this game:
SFG 472 000 002 - 15 23 0
PHI 000 202 211 - 8 13 0
And the next night, I was here.
SDP 010 000 010 - 2 6 0
MON 000 010 002 - 3 7 0
About a month shy of moving back from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles (my most life-changing decision before getting married), I decided to take a driving tour of the Northeast. I remember nearly passing out while reading Portnoy's Complaint on a park bench in Philadelphia in 100-plus-degree heat, before going to the ballpark and seeing the Giants take a 13-0 lead.
Then, instead of spending the night in a motel like I planned, I actually slept in my '85 Scirocco at a very well-lit truck stop on the way to Montreal. I arrived in Canada in the morning, checked into a hotel, napped, then drove to Stade Olympique, where I sat with a wonderfully energetic Montreal crowd to see ... and you don't hear these words too often anymore ... a young Jeff Fassero.
And after that, I was on my way to Maine, where the story gets even more interesting ... but I'm saving that.
vr, Xei
...and of course, the first-listed (presumably home plate) umpire's name? Jim Quick.
It was just as fun as it sounds.
I also loved Portnoy's Complaint.
I do remember my brother and I going to a game the day after the funeral and Jason Alexander sang the National Anthem, which we thought was nice since my mom was the one in the family who turned us on to watching "Seinfeld."
But I have not attended a Cat Fanciers convention!
The rest of my family enjoyed Maine for a couple of days, but that was my only experience in the state as we then drove down to Vermont.
Unfortunately I feel a bit quilty because Jon did a good job of a fairly rational defense of some of JD's actions.Actually I think I fell a bit guilty rather than quilty.
Do you fell a bit guilty or feel a bit quilty...?
I first heard of Beal's when it was recommended as the "gold standard" of lobster rolls as part of our trip reading of things to do while in Maine.
Beal's is a shed on a concrete pier with picnic tables. In other words, this is a working pier that just happens to have a restaurant. The primitive nature might have made Beals that much more enjoyable.
Directions: Follow 102A to the center of Southwest Harbor. Turn left on Clark Point Road. Bear right slightly at the stop sign and follow the road until it ends at the Coast Guard station.
Lobster rolls are so much better than working through lobster and it doens't come with the green sauce.
Also, stopping at Moodys for pie is another experience that is hard to duplicate in towns that have smog.
Or are you thinking of weak hitting Jose Gonzalez, whose exploits were written about by Jon on SI.com?
Where was Mariano Duncan:
MOBILE, Ala. – Padres pitcher Jake Peavy was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct Thursday at Mobile Regional Airport.
Padres general manager Kevin Towers told The Associated Press he was told that Peavy was headed for a goodwill tour of the Dominican Republic with other major league players when he double-parked to drop off his bags and was told by airport police to move his car.
"The airport police told him he couldn't park his car there and he said, 'Write me up a ticket and I'll pay for it,'" Towers said. "He was arrested."
Too soon, too soon.
Correction: D4P
When I was a child Maine for me was like Australia for Alexander in "Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day". I am guessing this was so because when I looked on a map it was the farthest state from CA in the continental US.
God is a Jesuit.
We got one player in it at least.
Bruce Jenkins -- comedian.
Every team has a bullpen. If they didn't, the pitchers wouldn't have anywhere to warmup.
RFK, on the other hand, I actually have quite a soft spot for. Awful amenities, no playground, long lines, no cupholders, etc. But the seats are big and comfy, and the sightlines are really quite good. No luxury boxes plus a large overhang of the lowerlevel, plus very steep stairs means that the cheap upper deck is actually quite close to the field and has a great view. And if you climb up to the tippy top, fun views of the capitol.
And the team sucks so every day is loser's dividend day!
That's what I was thinking.
Rock and roll!
That would the game available to me in lieu of UCLA/Oregon, which is being aired in the DC area at 11 pm tonight on tape delay.
What is this, 1974? I sure hope the end of the game doesn't get cut off for a previously scheduled kids movie.
I never fully accepted the mantle...
I'm virtually certain the game was Saturday 8/23/97. I posted (in part) the following to a Dodger group that night following the game:
And, Nixon had a part in the big play of the game. In the 8th, with 2 outs and left-hander Cummings coming up, Radinsky relieves Dreifort. Hudler pinch hits and rips one to rf, Mondesi tries simultaneously to cut it off and prepare to make a throw but the ball gets by him (error 1). Nixon fumbles the ball behind him (error 2) and then throws to Young. Young throws wildly to the home-plate side of 3b. Radinsky is not backing up the play (mental error). Error 3 on Young? But no, Cedeno is backing up the play all the way to halfway between 3b and home, saving the third error, the run, and possibly the game.
Fitting since we played like garbage.
I only get mad at the fact that our football coach is terrible, and some alumni (ahem) seem to be okay with that.
I better hide my Karl Dorrell Marching and Chowder Society membership card.
If you get the right level of membership, you're allowed to go on to the field of the Rose Bowl and attempt at 22-yard field goal.
Somewhere Bob is smiling.
Not a good day even for dumb sportswriters.
You'd probably appreciate FJM's latest offering.
http://firejoemorgan.blogspot.com/
I would only watch the NFL playoffs if they changed the tiebreaking system to give teams tied for a division title an edge over teams that finished in second or third.
Surely, you are the Messiah...
I thought his name was Chuck. I think you are still suffering from the aftereffects of that heat wave in Philadelphia.
http://tinyurl.com/tpqs8
-My name's Susan.
-No, I don't think so.
-I think I'd know my own name.
-I'm not so sure.
Four days before, Don Drysdale had died in Montreal. Rick Monday was going to join the team in New York on Friday (a dark day, I guess), so it was just Vin and Ross in Philadelphia. Back then, whoever did the game on radio with Vin did the 3rd and 7th so, after the 7th, Ross went down for the post-game interview. And stayed down there. Finally, I think it was as they went to the 18th that Vin came back from the commercial and said something like, "I've tried and I've tried, but I can't make something happen. So, it's time for Ross to try." Ross did two innings and then said, "The left-hander is warmed up in the bullpen." Vin came back and did the 20th, when it ended.
The football team is avenged!
Also, I don't mind paying, but are there any good free scouting report sites?
Thanks for your time.
But if you use the time-honored technique of rooting for the team with more UCLA players on it, you have to pull for Dallas, which has one former UCLA player (Kenyon Coleman) to Seattle's zero.
It's never done me wrong.
Seattle has one Trojan, David Kirtman, on its practice squad.
I don't have a complicated hierarchy like Andrew does.
I do remember the lousy Juan Gonzales and I liked him but the prospect who I really liked who disappointed me was Candido Maldonado just because of his name.
There has been a Juan Gonzalez, to wit, Juan Alberto (Vazquez) Gonzalez
The banjo hitting Gonzalez was Jose:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/gonzajo02.shtml
Davis hired Art Shell so he could run the team into the ground and get a first round draft pick. This showed great patience and savy on his part. True, it was like giving a child a stick of dynamite, but savy nonetheless.
He gets credit for re-hiring a black guy (so the media couldn't criticise the hiring too much) and a first round pick in 07. He figures he's got about 3 more years to live, and by that time he'll be a contender again.
Now, that is cynicism that would make Antisthenes proud!
I've got a phone call to make.
Candy Maldonado was one of my favorites too. Saw him in McDonald's in Vero Beach when I was a kid. It must have been 1982 I think. He had on sandals with his name on them. My sister said, "Look he has on Candy Maldonado sandals." I think I called her an idiot and let her know that was him.
http://tinyurl.com/y542w8
Set TIVO's to "Excitement"
You have a moral obligation to root for the Cowboys.
It seems like a cool enough sport. Glide around really fast, pass the puck around, fights, checking, crazy fans, good tradition. I have no anti-Canadian streak, so it can't be that.
It might just be the same reason I don't listen to new music. I have a finite amount of time in my life, and unless you're beating The Beatles, Zep, or Stones (baseball, college football, college basketball), you're not getting in the rotation. In theory, hockey should be good.
Why isn't this game on Fox Sports?
And he's going to drive me from Downtown to Anaheim and pay for the tickets, which is OK by me.
The game is in Pullman. Nobody wants to go to Pullman.
I think Wazzu's defense is a little tougher than UW's.
It would have to be one of the 20-2 runs that UCLA would have last year where they would just drive the other team to distraction.
Yes, the answer is two. It was a rhetorical question.
Do you refer to yourself as "Boy"...?
Some person named Cara Capuano is pretending to do play-by-play on FSN - this is an abomination. The apocalypse has arrived; Chick Hearn must be spinning in his grave.
Ha ha ha.
Democracy, decency, and America win!
I just couldn't stand turning on ESPN to catch a sports score and hearing about how Tony Romo cured cancer, changed iron into gold, and created the world's first cold fusion power plant. It was all a bit much for me.
Oh, man, that was some good schaudenfreude.
It's here
http://tinyurl.com/smbvo
Nothing good ever happens in San Pedro.
Speaking of which, I drink with the guy who played Leatherface in that one at the Rainbow Room one time. He was hitting on every girl in sight while his posse sported menacing glares.
Without looking it up, I would guess that means "I only speak four languages"
1. Next time they meet, Harmeling should not be allowed to shoot
2. WSU's defense is pretty dang good
Thankfully, I have you around to correct every little mistake. What a treat.
You can speak four languages, but you are not fluent in Pac-10 school nickname spelling.
Albinism is nothing to be ashamed of.
My exact internal debate.
My internal debate was more like this:
"Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow..."
http://tinyurl.com/yenpky
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16505445/
This may be the toughest Pacific 10 I've ever seen.
really annoying cats couldnt seal this game up, considering UCLA lost today.
Technically, it's the third or fifth game.
-i still hate taylor king. i remember when i was a senior and he was freshmen and he was as pompous then as he is now. and ugly...so ugly. but wow, amazing shooter, pulls up from 27 feet and nails it consistently. Him and Duke deserve each other though.
-how in the hell did alex jacobson get a scholarship from arizona? he sucks. hes a legit 7 footer, but he sucks.
-mile simons nephew is awesome. oregons getting another solid player.
Do the teams that finish 3-10 in the conference get better seeds in the tournament than a team that ties for first but loses the tiebreaker...?
Well, actually in the Pac-10 the seeding tiebreakers are:
Head-to-head (or games among 3 or more teams).
Then record against first place team and then going down in the standings.
Then overall record.
Then they flip a coin.
But how do they decide who gets to "call it in the air"...?
Yeah, Olson is right. I remember him as a whiner when he was at Long Beach City College.
The coin toss is conducted by the Pac-10 Commissioner.
I don't think they've had to use that and it would be unlikely that it would ever need to be used.
Now there's a man who holds a grudge!
Do you happen to know what kind of coin they would use...?
Nah, he wasn't nearly so irritating then. I had my hands full being annoyed by John Wooden. Now Bill Walton, on the other hand, that guy must hold the record for long term multi-media annoying.
They use a coin specially minted for such an event. Out of an alloy of platinum, gold, and polonium.
Is it produced by bombarding bismuth with neutrons in a nuclear reactor?
So, you're really Tommy Craggs! I knew it.
You must have hated Wooden trying to keep the "bad elements" out of basketball! You can run, but you can't hide Craggs!
Polonium, your time is now.
Craggs heard it all from me. I can't comment further because legal action is pending.
Dunkshots were okay when made by Ron Riley.
In the last NCAA tournament game WSU won, Craig Ehlo was playing in it.
The Cougars haven't won 14 games in a year since 1995-96.
Cara Capuano said WSU hasn't beat Zona at home since '86, before Chase Budinger was born.
Don't quote me, cause Cara may not be much of a source.
Bob, did you make it to the WSU-SC game last weekend? We were sitting next to Bob Boyd.
Mark Hendrickson.
If anyone knows the name of anyone in the top 3, you are indeed a hard core Pac-10 basketball fan.
John Goodman's line, right? But I can't remember the context.
I was seated behind the south basket in row 15.
I liked the Galen Center. They just need to finish up a few things. Like mounting signs on the outside of the sections, so you can find your seats. Instead you can see them from the court. In case one of the players wants to find section 115.
Isaac Fontaine. That's all I got.
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I have no idea why they didn't open the curtain. You would have had a great view.
Steve Puidokas is second and Don Collins is third.
The curtain was closed because FSN wanted it closed.
Mark Hendrickson is the last WSU player to be drafted by the NBA.
http://tinyurl.com/y9qjbz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momofuku_Ando
The LAPD officer said, in response to questions about suicide, "I don't have anything to indicate that it was that."
http://tinyurl.com/vg6gf
Zito 2006: 16 wins
Schmidt 2006: 11 wins
Q.E.D.
Johan Santana was nearly five wins WARPier than Schmidt last year. So, it's not completely impossible. It's just not likely that Zito will manage it. Barring a Schmidtian collapse. Ch-i forbid.
http://tinyurl.com/y93hly
The Man is still going strong!
http://tinyurl.com/ymwefx
Or woman
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