SB Nation User Blog: wackomann

the 30/30 quiz

wackomann — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:44:42 -0000

the 30/30 quiz

Former blog cohort Jeremy introduced me to Sporcle, and I've quickly fonud out that it kills time and destroys lives. This quiz gives you five minutes to name off all 53 guys in baseball history who have had 30/30 seasons.

Of course, there are many other quizzes of all sorts on the site, and I'll say that it took me three weeks to ace the Countries of the World quiz. That'n is a monster.

hawaii winter baseball

wackomann — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:19:55 -0000

Another year of Hawaii Winter Baseball is upon us. At least it is for those who are in the vicinity. I happen to live on Oahu, where a bulk of these games are being played.

Last year, five Mariner farmhands played in the league: David Asher, Joe Woerman, Reed Eastley, Sebastien Boucher, and Jeff Clement. All five played for the Waikiki BeachBoys team. The player access is incredible, and even I was able to get Clement's autograph, which was "good fun, brah," as a local might say. I even got to see Boucher before he was traded away so we could be a part of The John Parrish Experience.

Anyway, the rosters for the four teams are here...
-- Waikiki BeachBoys
-- West Oahu CaneFires
-- North Shore Honu
-- Honolulu Sharks

Four Mariner farmhands are coming, all playing for Waikiki. They are Aaron Jensen, Harold Williams, Michael Wilson, and Josh Womack. As luck would have it, exactly zero of these guys are on the Future Forty.

Since I'm not the badassest guy when it comes to minor-league knowledge, please feel free to peruse those rosters and tell me who I should look out for, since I have the feeling if I'm just going to see those four Mariner farmhands, I won't be seeing much.

Thanks to all.

off-topic

wackomann — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:45:19 -0000

I'm here in Hawaii, as some of you know. I get off work at 6pm Pacific time. My plan was to watch the archived feed of Felix/Daisuke after I got done listening live to Game 1 of Stars/Canucks. That game started a bit after 7p Pacific.

Now if the Canucks would have just held on to a two-goal lead in the third period like they should have, then it wouldn't have been too bad. Instead, they tried to sit on the lead, which they've been guilty of a few times this season.

Four overtimes later, Henrik Sedin finally scored just after 12:30a Pacific time, Thursday morning.

Another off-topic topic waiting to happen -- the game was through three overtimes and at midnight Pacific time, Versus cut away to the originally scheduled program, which of course was a paid program for the Supreme Pilates exercise apparatus. I was hearing the Versus studio crew talk about how much ice time the defensemen were racking up, Ken Hitchcock's huge noggin was on the screen talking about team defense, then all of a sudden, BAM! Supreme Pilates. The worst part? The game feed never came back.

Anyway, hooray to Felix in a game that I will totally see in its entirety in the very near future, hooray to the Canucks for winning the sixth-longest game in NHL history, and a big giant BOO to the NHL for teaming up with Versus because as much as I think ESPN takes things for granted sometimes, having an important game pre-empted by a paid program would never happen on ESPN.

fun with mosaic

wackomann — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:56:08 -0000

I think when the MLB.tv Mosaic feature first came out, I tried it out some and messed around with it and stuff. I ended up taking a screen grab of it, and I think the reason will be obvious below. I just kinda stumbled across this thing while looking at my stash of Mariner wire photos from last season.

For the record, I thought I'd saved another one where the alert was that Sandfrog was at the plate. It's great stuff.

help diagnose my MLB.tv illness

wackomann — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:01:27 -0000

Spring training has begun, and so comes the thought of purchasing a subscription for the upcoming season of MLB.tv. The demo is badass and so clear compared to years past it's incredible.

The 2007 demo works fine on my rig (WinXP, Media Player 11), I can see it and hear it and everything. My problem? When I try to pull up some archived feed of anything, whether it be a past Mariner highlight, a full game, or even Gameday Audio, I can get the usual picture but no audio whatsoever.

I've tried downloading drivers, codecs, etc., and I haven't found crap that will get the audio to work on the older stuff. Moreover, I'm worried that I'll buy the new package and then find that the audio doesn't work for whatever reason.

Has anyone else run into the same problem? I'm just asking here before I resort to asking Microsoft or MLB.tv about it and then getting some cryptic answer.

huff, puff, and BAM! Crab cakes

wackomann — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 06:37:32 -0000

I was tipped off to this by the ESPNews bottom line thingy, but I've got weblink confirmation of it.

Aubrey Huff to Baltimore. Three years and $20M, pending the physical.

Best line of the article: "Club officials know how dangerous Huff can be because he has more home runs and RBIs against the Orioles than any other team."

a-boone fishes

wackomann — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:16:30 -0000

I can't find a supporting weblink to this, which is quite sad, but the newscrawl on ESPNews is telling me that the Florida Marlins have signed Aaron Boone to a one-year deal.

Don't shoot the messenger or anything. I'm just starting this thread because one hasn't started yet. I figure if Guillermo Quiroz can get his own thread, Aaron Boone can get his.

they could still be #2

wackomann — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:52:01 -0000

You know, the NFC is sad. Just sad.

Why?

Though it'd require a highly unlikely chain of events, the Seahawks could still take the #2 seed in the NFC, so let's all give a big thank-you to the Washington Redskins for even making such a pipe-dream scenario possible.

What will it take, and in what order?

(1) the Seahawks run the table (I did say it was highly unlikely) to finish 10-6

(2) the Saints lose out (at the Giants and home against Carolina) to finish 9-7

(3) the Cowboys lose out (home against the Eagles and Detroit) to finish 9-7

(4) after beating Dallas in Week 16, the Eagles lose at home to Atlanta on New Year's Eve, finishing 9-7.

Again, I'm not saying I think it'll happen. In fact, I think there's no way in hell all of this will fall into place since the Seahawks have proved time and time again this season that they can't take care of business, and this whole scenario is moot if the Seahawks don't run the table.

...but the fact that this scenario is even possible speaks volumes about the NFC.