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Stanford Downs FSU and Posey
Buster had a marginal game, did not come through in some clutch situations and got knocked around a bit in his role as, get this, Florida State's CLOSER. I read a bit about him when the Giants drafted him but don't remember reading that he came in to close games. How tough must that be? Catch for 8+ innings and then go out there to shut down the other team in tight situations after squatting for the three previous hours (it was a 4+ hour game today)?
For instance, today he came in when Stanford had men on (I think) 1st and second. He walked a guy, but then had some bad luck when the FSU shortstop couldn't field a double play ball. The Cardinal went on to score a CWS record-tying 11 runs in that inning, helped by another error by that poor shortstop. They beat FSU 16-5 (Go Cardinal!).
Anyway, Posey seems like a really athletic tough guy, and he'll be fun to watch. Hoping to get out to see him in San Jose at some point next year.
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Lincecum Story
Apologies if this has been linked already, but ran across an interesting story about Tim Linceum in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. This paragraph was intriguing:
Lincecum has a freakishly resilient arm. There were reports he was throwing long toss the day after a 190-pitch outing. But despite his heavy workload and the fact he doesn't even ice his arm (which is unheard of), he's never had an arm injury.21 comments | 0 recs
KNBR Fires Bruce Magowan
I will miss him. He not only lent a very human voice to the Bay Area sports scene but also was a tremendous resource for audio recordings documenting his (and our) travels around the local sports landscape for the past couple of decades.
I can't count the number of dumb personnel decisions KNBR has made over the past 10 years. Between Giants games, I'll be changing the station. Here's a column about the firing.
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