Archive for April, 2009

News & Notes: Corcy, Vargas, Saunders

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

RHRP Roy Corcoran has been placed on the 15-day DL with a sprained neck.  Hard to tell if the DL stint is really necessary, but Seattle just wanted him to go away for a little while.  Taking his place is LHP Jason Vargas.  Vargas came over in the Putz trade and has been stellar in [...]

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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Chris Jakubauskas versus a fat, old Bartolo Colon resulted in a pitcher’s dual, so I guess Felix Hernandez against John Danks is going to be a slugfest. The White Sox caught a break on the Paul Konerko double.  If that ball didn’t take a weird bounce in the corner or if fan interference was called [...]

Your Enemy’s Enemy is Your Friend

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

I don’t like Carlos Silva for the obvious reasons: sucks, paid too much, clubhouse cancer– but I also don’t like Larry LaRue, so I definitely got a kick out of a recent blog post of his.  Excerpt: Carlos Silva came out of the training room and I asked how his back was. He’d had spasms [...]

Hooray for Hijinks

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Part of the allure of baseball for me growing up was the goofy stuff that always seemed to be going on around the game.  The local video rental shop had a couple of baseball blooper videos that I must’ve convinced my mom to rent dozens and dozens of times. You know, bubble gum bubbles stuck [...]

Yuni’s Leash

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

As you surely know by now I haven’t been keeping up with the Mariners lately.  I’m not watching ballgames from start to finish, but every time I do manage to catch a couple of innings it seems like Yuniesky Betancourt is making some kind of miscue in the field. Here’s what we know:  One, Yuni’s [...]

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