Archive for February, 2010

Roommate and I had a bottle of whiskey and a streaming Knicks game on Friday. Things got ugly. Then we opened the whiskey.

Mike Schmidt, you keep signing autographs to raise money for the project and I’ll stay here and write it about it sometimes. We’re all doing our parts.

And Brad Lidge’s car fire of a 2009 season spreads further still into the offseason.

This time, it’s not a victim of Tommy John surgery or a former Yankee with the speed of a ravenous pit bull locked in on a basket of kittens.

Give Freddy Guzman props, because apparently, he’s a dust cloud or three away from any base at any time.

“Minor league contracts” appear to now be the chief form of currency in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.

Let’s be happy about the young arms populating the roster and not threatening people with knives. Yet.

When I heard the Phillies had signed a Yankee, I couldn’t stop chuckling evilly and wringing my hands together, and I wasn’t letting things like “being on a crowded subway car” stop me.

Well, the guy hasn’t pitched since 2007, so it makes sense. But if scouts show up to this thing and “Noah Lowry” turns out to just be a newly sensible Chan Ho Park wearing a disguise, I can’t imagine anyone will stick around for very long. Maybe the Mets.

Meet Ehren Wassermann, a side arming ex-knife salesman with a history of pitching the christ out of opposing players as a Samford Bulldog. Oh, and when he was six, he had an unassisted triple play. So he was at least as good as Eric Bruntlett. When he was six.