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Next week, Milwaukee at Twins: Suppan vs. Slowey, Parra vs. Perkins, Looper vs. Baker Red Sox at Twins, in 2 Mondays: Penny vs. Liriano (this is the one I'm unsure about; I think Matsuzaka is coming off the DL) I've never seen Liriano pitch, but I've seen every other guy in the Twins rotation at least once. After this next series, the only current Brewers starter I won't have seen pitch at any time is Gallardo. (I missed Sabathia and McClung last year, but saw McClung pitch in relief this year.) :: +Memory :: Tell a Friend :: Reply How Not to Price Your Tickets: analysis of the secondary market for baseball tickets indicates that, surprise of surprises, expensive seats at Yankee Stadium are overpriced in regards to demand what the Seibu Lions did with Matsuzaka's posting fee--so the Red Sox basically paid the Lions $25 million to update the Seibu Dome, making Lions fans a bit happier. Sox fans, however, are stuck watching a declining pitcher. (I will not complain about Jeff Suppan...much; at least he was what it said on the box.) The Fickle Twitterer: "The half-life of a microblog, it turns out, is even briefer than the half-life of a blog." a) What is with this rash of pitchers getting hit with batted balls? Chris Young and Nick Blackburn got hit last year, and so far this year Joe Martinez, Cole Hamels, and Koji Uehara have been hit. Something Must Be Done. (note: sarcasm, because someone in the media is going to write a srs bsns article about it eventually) b) Baseball comics, the sort featuring real players. I'll be on the way to Milwaukee during Free Comic Book Day, which is what brought this to mind--last year one of those sorts of comics was a stadium giveaway, but of course I've never seen any of that sort of thing turn up in a comics blog post. The closest thing I've seen was that Tropicana Field trip page with pictures of that art depicting some of the 2008 Rays as superheroes. |