Thursday, May 16, 2013
Megdal: Jason Marquis Put The Time In
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Read More...Of 47 pitchers with 1,500 innings logged since 2000, Marquis is 40th in strikeout rate, 43rd in walk rate.
But unlike 20 of those 47 pitchers, Jason Marquis is still getting outs and winning games. And he doesn’t much care what anyone thinks about how he does it.
“Whatever it is, I don’t care, the one or the five,” Marquis said of his spot in any team’s rotation as we talked at his locker in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon, the day before his most recent start. Marquis is uncommonly bright, a ...
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1. Dave Spiwak posted on August 15, 2012 at 10:42 AM # hit 0 | hit 0All I need to know is that a AAA pitcher quit baseball after headhunting, the Omaha Storm Chasers haven't found a classier team celebration yet, and Terry Kennedy is still around.
Then again, there is also the slight possibility there may be some scant repetition in minor-league narratives. You know, maybe.
Word is the game also featured an organist delighting the crowd by playing "Three Blind Mice" after a controversial play went against the OSCs.
Why did the Omaha Royals change their name?
To me "Omaha Royals" sounds odd because in my formative years they were the "Omaha Golden Spikes". Apparently that only lasted 4 years!
Would you want to be associated with the Royals?
In that case, perhaps you should change your handle to StormChasersRetro.
I really liked that book. I thought it was much better than his critically acclaimed Boys of Summer. I've often wondered what ever happened to some of the key figures potrayed so well in the story.
I don't know; but I can tell you the bar they frequented, Spilka's, is still there. Although anyone mentioned in that book who isn't actually dead is probably in better physical shape than the bar.
I'm reading A Storm of Swords now, and I have the same complaint about all of Martin's books so far. Intriguing storyline, but enough of the irrelevant names that we don't care about and will never hear from again already.
None of the players ever made the majors. Given that it was an unaffiliated A-ball team, I guess that's not all that surprising.
This thread was over before it even started. Awesome tag line, Retro.
Apparently yes, as that association has endured since 1969, and the Storm Chasers could have ceased it any time the current player development contract expired.
They changed their name when they moved into their new stadium prior to the 2011 season. I don't know why they felt compelled to do so, but apparently it's pretty common in the minors - teams change their names when they get fresh digs.
Oxymoron.
Omaha is a long way from Nantucket. I guess the recession has hit Sandpiper air also.
That is kind of a Little League maneuver, no? Not what one would expect in professional baseball at the AAA level.
Oh you'll hear from them again. Once all the main characters die he has to bring in the new ones from somewhere.
I hope not. Or more specifically, what sticks out is something near the beginning where the Tyrells are coming into Kings Landing and he mentions about 20 of them by name on one page,:knights, their wives, children, cousins...When I glance at a new page and see nothing but names every 3rd or 4th word, I just skip to the next page.
Correct. I could see it happening in college, even. But professional baseball? Yuck.
I guess it's an interesting balancing act between being a professional and actually having fun. It seems no matter what someone does, a group somewhere is going to find fault with it, whether it's too professional (when we played, we played for the love of the game, not like today players who play for money) or unprofessional (that Reyes/Phillips/Fielder/Harper etc. kid just doesn't respect the game). The way I look at it, as long as the intent is ultimately to have fun and not to dis the opposition, then go for it. It is a game after all. Go out, play, give it your best effort to be prepared etc. But ultimately these aren't soldiers or doctors or fireman where someone's life can be in the balance (with apologies to Josh Hamilton/Carl Mays of course)
That's one of the bad things about the books taking forever to come out and them being so long. You get your hands on a new one and you get introduced to a million characters and it has been many years so you've forgotten who are all these people and who is aligned with whom and how sincerely they are. Then because the books are so long it isn't like you can cannonball through them to get caught up before you read the new one.
After season 2 on HBO I tried to go back and re-read the series but I couldn't get passed the first 100 pages. Those first 100 pages or so are simply dreadful.
That is where I stopped reading the book and never picked it back up even though everyone raves about them, I think that long fantasy novels are required to be unreadable for the first 100 pages (reason I never read Tolkien even though I'm a science fiction geek, D&D player and sometime member of SCA)
Virtually everyone I've talked to has either stopped reading before page 100 or says the first 100 pages is tough to get through. I remember picking up the third book and the clerk asking me how if the series was any good because he tried to read it and stopped. I asked him if he manage to read more than the first 100 pages and he said no. I tried to get my dad to read the series for about 6 years now and he simply wouldn't do it until he got a nook and the HBO series came out.
Those first 100 pages are a godawful start to what turns out to be a pretty good series.
I think the Silmarillion is a whole nother level of slog from the others mentioned here, since it is deliberately written in an ancient style. Or maybe just because it's the only one I gave up on for good.
The Baroque Cycle is probably my favorite book series ever, but oh god, the first three hundred pages... And it's usually the endings that are so hard for Stephenson.
That surprised me. I thought maybe he was some late 30s AAA journeyman. A 25 year old pitcher at AAA has a pretty good shot at being in the big leagues soon, especially in an organization as cheap as the Padres.
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