SB Nation User Blog: gossamer

who do you have in the all star game?

gossamer — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:28:35 -0000

AL all star game prediction?

my guess so far...

starters: 1b youkilis

2b pedroia (he'll overtake kinsler)

3b longoria

ss jeter

c mauer

of bay

of ichiro

of hamilton(assuming he's back)

P greinke

bench

1b russell branyan

1b justin morneau

1b miguel cabera (or teixeira???)

2b ben zobrist

2b ian kinsler

3b brandon inge (mike young don't make it)

ss ascrubal cabera

of torii hunter

of jermaine dye

of adam jones

c victor martinez

c kurt suzuki (the a's representative)

p edwin jackson

p felix hernandez

p roy halladay

p justin verlander

p josh becket

p kevin millwood

p joe nathan

p papelbon

p mariano rivera

i got the red sox with 5 reps

tigers with 4 reps

rangers with 3 reps

the a's suzuki makes it so they have a rep

how off am i? who should be in? who should be left out? do i have somebody here that is on the DL? do i even have the correct number of players on here?

sorry this isn't a fanshot, but the spacing is bad in there.

Byrd takes Conte’s supplements without apology

gossamer — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:55:12 -0000

Byrd takes Conte’s supplements without apology

My apologies if this was posted yet.

Gist of it is that Byrd is the only MLB player taking supplements created by balco founder victor conte.

"Conte has provided the Texas Rangers center fielder with a variety of pills and powders for 18 months. Not once has Byrd asked Conte whether any of it could trigger a positive drug test.

From article:
"I didn’t need to," Byrd said. "From our conversations, there was no need to ask."

4 rough riders on all star team

gossamer — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:24:55 -0000

4 rough riders on all star team

i know the link is from the drillers, but you can get from that the following info:

manny pina
smoak
kiker
poveda

are all stars.

all star voting update/rangers layoffs

gossamer — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:24:26 -0000

rangers layoff some employees

Rangers spokesman John Blake tells the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that the job cuts amounted to less than 10 percent of the staff. Before the cuts, the Rangers had about 275 organization employees exclusive of onfield personnel.

and no, jim knox isn't one of them. good luck to their families, hopefully they rebound.

all star voting...

from mlb

davis is 5th among 1st basemen

kinsler is leading 2nd basemen

young is 3rd at 3rd

andrus is 3rd at short

salty is 4th at catcher

hammy is 2nd

cruz is 7th

don't forget to vote for those you think deserve it.

sorry if any of this has already been posted*

sorry. JackDublin already has a fanshot.

Way OT Big time controversy!!! 5 biggest surprises from the madden 10 player rankings That's...

gossamer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:43:11 -0000

Way OT

Big time controversy!!!

5 biggest surprises from the madden 10 player rankings

That's right. Madden is so important that it manages to earn a column on the respected Yahoo! Sports page. Wonder if the game is a sponsor.

The biggest surprise? Brett Favre isn't a top 10 QB. You see, madden worships him. I could have sworn madden had input in the game he is the figure head for.

In the TO selection, writer Chris Chase shows some pretty timely humor (making fun of Nick Cage's Snake Eyes movie) and sharp biting political comedy (joe biden gaffes about as often and TO drops a pass)

Admittingly ranking LaDainian Tomlison as the 3rd best RB is a huge reach.

There are a couple other selections in the column. Not really enough to write one about.

I can't believe i read it. I also can't believe i posted it here.

Friday night's game at tulsa drew the largest crowd of the year for the drillers, and the...

gossamer — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:15:45 -0000

Friday night's game at tulsa drew the largest crowd of the year for the drillers, and the largest crowd ever to see the rough riders play. It normally takes me 20 minutes to get from my house to the stadium, this time it took me an hour. missed the first inning and a half. around the middle of the 3rd inning we decided to get some concessions. we missed 3 innings. didn't really see much of the game. frisco lost. horrible experience if you are there to actually watch the game. drillers aren't prepared for a crowd any larger than 4,000. nearly 12,000 showed up! why? walmart free ticket giveaway. the atmosphere was nice though. last game i didn't really have much detail, but certainly much more than this, check that fanshot out : ...
thursday's game

I will post a couple pics. Sorry my camera is not good at al. Would love a nice 10X optical zoom...

gossamer — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:57:39 -0000

I will post a couple pics. Sorry my camera is not good at al. Would love a nice 10X optical zoom camera where i could change lenses and filters, but i don't have much extra cash...

Dollar Beer night. You can get tickets for as cheap as $3, and it's not really hard to find free tickets. Beautiful weather, a light breeze and i'm guessing upper 60's, and still only about 1/3 of the stands are filled. Officially about 3,500 in attendance. Can't wait for the new stadium.

No real in depth looks at player performances. I don't see radar gun readings. I don't score the game or anything. Sometimes I miss AB's and pitches getting beer and stuff.

kiker wasn't very good last night, he did strike out 5 in 3.2 innings but gave up plenty of hits. only 1 run scored off him but it took him A LOT of pitches to not even get through 4 innings.

thomas diamond looked terrible

jones looked decent. he gave up a walk and 2 hits in his 1 inning but did get a couple strikeouts.

laughter looked pretty sharp, but don't think that really matters.

diaz was decently beastly, if not a hippo i'd say a rhino at the least.

smoak wasn't impressive with the glove but was good at the plate. he hit a double that was nearly a home run. i cheered quite loudly as the double came late with a tie game. some guy close to me yelled, "hey friso fan!!" i look and he yells at me "boo!!". i just smile thinking that smoak is gonna come home and put frisco on top. sure enough he did. i look over at the guy and say nothing but give him a large grin.

lemon reached on a leadoff bunt which was awesome. next batter then moved him on a sacrifice bunt.

majewski got picked off at 3rd base which was annoying late in the game with the score tied. totally reminded me of ian kinsler.

other than that, for a team that came back from behind 3-0 to win 4-3 there wasn't really anything all that memorable. tulsa was only able to score 3 runs off of 12 hits and 2 frisco errors. tulsa couldn't really capitalize. frisco let a lot of little things happen but didn't let things get out of reach.

all star voting

gossamer — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:26:42 -0000

sorry if i missed this on the board.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090527&content_id=4985248&vkey=allstar2009&fext=.jsp

Jeter is leading the AL in votes of course.

rangers rank by position:

davis is 5th

kinsler is 1st

young is 2nd

andrus is 3rd (!)

salty is 5th (!)

hamilton is 2nd

nelson cruz is 7th (!)

andruw jones (!!) is 12th

i could be wrong, but i think jones would have had to have been a write in (murphy was the other OF on the ballot right??)

anyway, don't forget to vote for those you think deserve it.

Ah man. I get to see frisco on the 28th and 29th here in tulsa. it's looking like my starters...

gossamer — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:12:03 -0000

Ah man. I get to see frisco on the 28th and 29th here in tulsa. it's looking like my starters will be Ballard and Hamilton. At least I'll get to see Pina, Smoak and my boy Beau Jones.

reached on error

gossamer — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:00:00 -0000

just wondering if there is a site that keeps up to date track on this stat?

all i have found was retrosheet, but that site doesn't post stats for current season.

i'm just being nerdy and want to see stuff. just wanna mess around and look at top hitters and see who would lead the league if you took total bases + walks + stolen bases + hbp + roe and then divided by PA

see last year that would make the number

.669 arod

bradley .654

quentin .653

youkilis .628

sizemore .627

kinsler .600

hamilton .592

carlos pena .588

cabrera.579

pedroia .566

morneau .560

mauer .523

not that this means anything. i'm just being a total nerd. wonder if i should subtract 2 pts for every GDP from the total bases number? or add 1 for every SH and SF? probably i should stop wasting my time, and yours. my apologies.