Mariners SS Brendan Ryan proposed to his girlfriend in Japan - entertaining story here. My favorite bit:
"The hyperactive Ryan thought of everything on this one, even realizing he shouldn’t trust himself to bring the engagement ring with him to Japan.
“One of the smartest things I ever did was give that thing to Felix [Hernandez],” Ryan said, “because I figured if anybody was going to lose it, he could afford it.”"
He’s baaaaaaaack!
Moyer named No. 2 starter in Rox rotation
Huzzah!
His first win will make him the oldest pitcher to win a Major League game.
This is awesome. Still one player older then me!
I hope he does well.
Good news on the Dodgers, the end of the McCourt fiasco.
Some bad news for the Yanks, Michael Pineda has a sore shoulder and is headed for an MRI. The old adage about “You can never have too much pitching” could well prove itself again for the Yanks.
I think it’s awesome that today’s rookies will get to face a man who struck out Ty Cobb.
Good point. How far back can you go with only 1 degree of separation from Moyer? Who, among people he’s played with or against, started his career the earliest? I’m thinking it has to be somebody who broke in in the Sixties.
Here is a quick chain courtesy of Baseball-Ref.
Jamie Moyer played with Andy Van Slyke for the 1995 Baltimore Orioles
Andy Van Slyke played with Jim Kaat for the 1983 St. Louis Cardinals
Jim Kaat played with Elmer Valo for the 1960 Washington Senators
Elmer Valo played with Al Simmons for the 1941 Philadelphia Athletics
Al Simmons played with Ty Cobb for the 1928 Philadelphia Athletics
Now on my own, I checked and his rookie year (age 23, 1986) he played with Gary Matthews who started in 1972 at age 21. Chris Speier started in 1971 and was another teammate the year.
The real prize is in 1990 when he was a teammate with Ryan. Ryan first pitched in 1966 for the Mets.
Missed the Ryan connection.
So using Ryan,
Moyer played with Nolan Ryan (1990 Rangers)
Ryan played with Bob Friend (1966 Mets)
Friend played with Murry Dickson (1951 Pirates)
Dickson played with Pepper Martin (1939 Cardinals)
Martin played with Pete Alexander (1928 Cardinals)
Alexander played with John Titus (1911 Phillies)
Titus was on a show with Stacy Keach - no wait, wrong guy
Has anyone griped elsewhere about the messed up Opening Day? I’m happy baseball is back, but not even counting the M’s and A’s series a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, MLB is having a one game “series” between the Cards and Marlins on Wednesday night (in Miami), and then 7 games on Thursday, of which I think just 3 are nationally televised. One of those 3 games will have the Marlins vs the Reds…in Cincinnati. Lucky Fish get to hop on a red-eye flight for an afternoon game after all the commotion that will come with the new stadium. Everyone else opens Friday. I hate this mess. Go back to Opening Day on a Monday, dammit!
I have no idea why the season isn’t starting today. It’s senseless. Starting on April 2 would tighten up the schedule later in the year, too.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/spring2012/story/_/id/7766104/san-francisco-giants-work-extension-matt-cain
Very happy about this. Lincecum-Bumgarner-Cain for two (or is it three?) more years, guaranteed…
Joe
Even better, Barry Zito is now only the *third *highest paid player on the team.
Now, if they can just figure out which of their 37 infielders are going to make the team, we’d be all set. Of course, I guess there are worse problems than having too many prospects…
Well, there goes my dream of Kershaw, Hamels, Cain, Billingsly. Oh well. Here’s hoping Hamels holds out.
Still can get Greinke.
There are varying reports on quite how rich Joey Votto has become, but he is going to be a Red for a long long time.
I know. Everyone is locking up their stars right now. Votto is a Red until age 40 if I did my math right. That’s nuts.
One. More. Day.
The Dodgers are, for the first time, hosting an Opening Day party at the stadium. Since the team opens on the road, they’re inviting fans to come down to Dodger Stadium and watch the game on the big screen. And just to make sure we know the McCourt Era is over, it’s free admission, free parking, and discounts on Dodger Dogs.
If I can convince my boss to let me out early tomorrow, I am so there.
Or, for those of us that follow the defending champs (or the newly-christened Marlins): ONE. MORE. HOUR!
Anyone have any impressions of the new Miami stadium? Looks pretty nice to me, at first glance.
I have to wait so long.
Yanks traded for a backup catcher today. 30 year old Chris Stewart from the Giants in exchange for right-hander George Kontos.This bumped Cervelli to AAA. Kontos may be a good bullpen pickup for the Giants and was a spare part for the Yanks.
David Phelps, age 25 made the cut as the final man in the bullpen. He had an excellent spring and it helped he was already on the roster.
Andy Pettitte looked good today in one inning of work against the Mets.
Ok, NOT loving the sculpture behind CF…