Our long national nightmare is over.

Are there IL and AA equivalents of The Early Coast League Statistical Record, 1903-1957? Perhaps more importantly, has anyone had the good sense to give them the Lahman treatment?

Greg, these guys might have something about the AA. Dunno about the IL.

Yesterday's list of players with obscure qualifications was fun. I'll start another. Has there been a player that has made the playoffs every year of his career (save for the cup of coffee seasons) but never won a World Series?

Has there been a player that has made the playoffs every year of his career (save for the cup of coffee seasons) but never won a World Series?

Andruw Jones fit that until 2006.

Hideki Matsui has a five-year streak going.

Has there been a player that has made the playoffs every year of his career (save for the cup of coffee seasons) but never won a World Series?

David Justice didn't play in the playoffs in 1990 (his first full season) and he won a World Series in 2000 but between Atlanta, Cleveland, New York and Oakland, he's been in the playoffs 12 times in a 14 year career, and one of those was the strike year. Hardly seems fair, doesn't it?

EDIT: I'm mistaken because according to BB-REF, he didn't play in the playoffs in 1996, although he was on the Braves team.

Justice won a World Series in 1995. Homered in Glavine's 1-0 win.

Justice won a World Series in 1995. Homered in Glavine's 1-0 win.

See, this is why my dumb ass never post here. Even when I bother to do the research, I'm almost always wrong because I completely forget about #### like this.

EDIT: for grammar - although I'm sure I messed up again. Back to lurking...

Lofton missed a few playoff seasons at the start of his career, but since 1995 he's only missed the playoffs twice (by a combined two games), and still has no WS ring to show for it. Better yet, he's played in the playoffs for six different teams.

Is anyone else having a lot of trouble with the new GameDay? Totally apart from the redesign -- which seems pointless to me -- half the buttons don't work for me. On the main play-by-play field, I have yet to be able to go back to see an earlier inning all season. I click on any button for a previous inning, and nothing happens.

Is anyone else having a lot of trouble with the new GameDay? Totally apart from the redesign -- which seems pointless to me -- half the buttons don't work for me. On the main play-by-play field, I have yet to be able to go back to see an earlier inning all season. I click on any button for a previous inning, and nothing happens.

Yeah, I've experienced most of those problems. It's been pretty awful.

Scouting report:

Chris Volstad was outstanding, as he's been every time but one that I've seen him pitch. Kept the ball down, moved it around, got lots of GB outs. He threw 87 pitches in six innings of a 7-1 win. He's not overpowering (89 tops on the Mudcats' board gun, which is about 2 MPH slow), and his ball doesn't move all that much, but he's doing something right - there were at least three broken bats. Solid mechanics for a big guy. He's not that far away, although I hope the Marlins are careful with him; they don't have a real good recent history with their younger pitchers.

Jake McGee had a rough night. He couldn't locate any of his pitches (74 pitches in two innings). His breaking ball at this stage is mostly for show; he threw only one or two for strikes, and most of them just bounced up there. He has a tendency to overthrow, especially from the stretch. Very slow to the plate, and a so-so move to first; runners should be able to run on him. He hit 95 on the board a couple of times. McGee's not a big guy, but he doesn't have a high-energy delivery, and I didn't notice anything awkward or unusual about his mechanics. At this point, he's certainly behind Davis (who goes tonight), and I think the Rays need to be cautious.

-- MWE

I went to the Clippers-Bulls game in Columbus this afternoon. Not much offense...the Clippers won 1-0. Didn't seem like the pitching was particularly unhittable, it's just that neither team could get any kind of offense going.

Evan Longoria just *looks* like a ballplayer. Roped a couple of balls.

Anyway, they announced an attendance of nearly 4,000. There couldn't possibly have been more than 500 people there - tops - as this picture shows. Do all minor league teams inflate attendance by this kind of margin, or is this Columbus-specific? There are two or three other times I've been to games with that kind of disparity between attendance and announced attendance, so I don't think this is a one-time thing.

I went to the Clippers-Bulls game in Columbus this afternoon. Not much offense...the Clippers won 1-0. Didn't seem like the pitching was particularly unhittable, it's just that neither team could get any kind of offense going.

The International League is known for being a pitcher's league.

Anyway, they announced an attendance of nearly 4,000. There couldn't possibly have been more than 500 people there - tops - as this picture shows. Do all minor league teams inflate attendance by this kind of margin, or is this Columbus-specific? There are two or three other times I've been to games with that kind of disparity between attendance and announced attendance, so I don't think this is a one-time thing.

I'm sure that, like MLB, they announce tickets sold, not turnstile count.