Fuzzy Dunlop

I love you, Czech. For me, the highlight of the game was flipping over to the White Sox broadcast and listening to Hawk and DJ go ballistic over the obstruction call.

Here's Steve Philips: "He has never failed a drug test. In fact, consider that Sosa did get busted for corking a bat during his playing days. Why would a player on steroids cork his bat? He wouldn't."

Um, I don't understand this comment. The Bulls would suck because their players don't have big contracts?

So my mom told me she's already seen ads for buying the complete series. Anyone confirm/deny this? I can't find it online anywhere.

Mole, do you work at a bookstore? I do. We already have like 1200-something reserves, and we have all these games and costumes and shit for the first night when we'll probably be open until 1 or 1:30. Last time the store was so packed we could barely move, so a bunch of us just hid behind the info desk all night.

I got my history teacher fired for calling me a fag in class.

Did anyone see the thing on Baseball Tonight last night with peoples' opinions on Bonds, separated by race? I was wondering what's the reason for that? Are white people evil racists? Are black people retarded?

Hmm, well, I'll talk to her tomorrow and I'll see if maybe she wants to go somewhere nicer. Thanks, guys.

Wow, it's really bad, huh? Shit.

I have a date Monday. I'm picking this girl up from work and we're going to Panda Express. I've never been there before, but she loves it, and it's a first date so at least I won't have to spend much.

Scissor me timbers!

So I just ordered the first two volumes of Animaniacs on DVD from Amazon. I'm also probably going to order the Pinky And The Brain boxed sets. Anyone have any thoughts about the greatest cartoon of all time?

Dude, she has a kid!

That Futurama pic with Beck is really awesome.

Tiny Toons was good, but it seemed like they made way too many references to the fact that they're smaller versions of the Looney Tunes, and I really don't remember them having too many characters/jokes that really stood out on their own. However I do have the VHS of "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" around here somewhere, and that was pretty badass.

Lushus

I can't believe we have two Lost nominations but not Sayid.

I remember when Prior first came into the league the announcers were gushing over his easy delivery, and how because of that he wouldn't be prone to injuries. If he'd played for the Twins he wouldn't have ever pitched for Baker which might have helped. But maybe he was always destined to be injured. I think when he got the ankle injury in Spring Training '04, he tried to adjust his delivery to keep stress off the ankle, and that led to his shoulder and elbow injuries, IIRC.

I think it's all the games that are on TV or radio somewhere. You can get a schedule by going to the dropdown menu for "audio and video" and then clicking Multimedia Guide.

Didn't I hear somehwere that even David Stern was having second thoughts about an All-Star game in New Orleans?

Fire Joe Morgan had a great response to the Murray Chass story. Tuesday, February 27, 2007 This Is Why This Site Exists I would guess that something like ninety percent of people still consume all of their sportswriting in the form of newspapers. (I mean, factor in old people and casual fans, right?) They wake up in the morning, pour themselves some orange juice, sit down and read drivel like this willfully uninformed screed from cantakerous, crotchety Murray Chass. As Season Approaches, Some Topics Should Be Off Limits Things I don’t want to read or hear about anymore: Let's cut to the juicy part. Statistics mongers promoting VORP and other new-age baseball statistics. "New age" is touchy-feely. New age is spiritual. New age is intangible. VORP, Mr. Chass, is not new age. It may be relatively new, but it is not new age. It is the opposite of new age. It is an attempt to quantify, to measure, to analyze. You know, a more scientific approach to knowledge. Science -- that thing that humans do to find out more about the world around them. Not new age -- a fake thing that involves pan flutes and rubbing crystals on your body. I receive a daily e-mail message from Baseball Prospectus, an electronic publication filled with articles and information about statistics, mostly statistics that only stats mongers can love. You can feel the sneer curling on his face as he writes "electronic publication" with a quill pen in Olde English, then rolls up the parchment and sends it on its three-day horseback journey to his publisher, Lord Sulzberger, Jr. He's kidding about the e-mail of course. He doesn't have an "e-mail address." E-mail is for new age wack jobs. To me, VORP epitomized the new-age nonsense. Sir. Sir. You're still using "new age" incorrectly. Excuse me, sir? (Murray Chass ignores me and continues brushing his teeth with a small rubber fish.) For the longest time, I had no idea what VORP meant and didn’t care enough to go to any great lengths to find out. That's cool. You're just a baseball writer for the fucking New York fucking Times. Thanks for caring about your fucking job so much you won't type "define:vorp" into Google, hit return, and then read the literally two sentences that result. I just did it ten times in the last three seconds. You're right, though: I guess those are "great lengths" for a 479-year-old member of the tribe of living undead. I asked some colleagues whose work I respect, and they didn’t know what it meant either. Those colleagues: Tim McCarver Branch Rickey Abner Doubleday Alexander Joy Cartwright Scoop Jackson Herodotus John Kruk Finally, not long ago, I came across VORP spelled out. It stands for value over replacement player. How thrilling. How absurd. Value over replacement player. Don’t ask what it means. I don’t know. If you read this paragraph again, you'll find that it doesn't really contain an argument in any sense of the word. Since when are baseball statistics supposed to be "thrilling"? How thrilling is ERA, a thing you presmuably think is fine? And you still don't know what VORP means, even after writing about it in a professional column in a professional newspaper, professionally? I suppose that if stats mongers want to sit at their computers and play with these things all day long, that’s their prerogative. In their parents' basements, not getting a date for prom, wearing nerd glasses and playing the violin. Even at age 9,354, Murray gets a thrill out of nailing these dorks. Good luck getting laid, dorks! Gotcha! But their attempt to introduce these new-age statistics into the game threatens to undermine most fans’ enjoyment of baseball and the human factor therein. Murray Chass: New age new age new age new age the end. My column's done! Nurse: Very good, Murray! We're going out into the garden now for some fresh air. The garden. Won't that be fun? Saying that VORP undermines "enjoyment" and the "human factor" is like creationists saying that evolution takes away the "wonder" and "mystery" of the universe. It doesn't. It makes it awesomer. People play baseball. Numbers don’t. I actually believe that goofy, anthropomorphic numbers with arms and legs and silly oversize white gloves play all of the games we know of in what we call professional baseball. Call me crazy, but that is what I believe. Murray Chass: proof that there is still a reason we behave like true dickheads on this site.

And now it's back and the first thing I see is a Neifi Perez strikeout.

Still not working for me.

Yeah, I'm getting that too.

I read they'd broadcast 150 Spring Training games. That's not even close to all of them.