Posted in sports on Apr 29th, 2008
In the history of the game of baseball, there have been 659 field managers (Sports Reference, 2008b). All of these managers have enjoyed some measure of success, but some have done it much better than others. Some managers have experienced short term success in a career that might generally be considered unsuccessful in terms [...]
This is pretty off the wall, but one of the searches to reach this blog in December is
“hunter pence” world of warcraft
I don’t rank terribly high for that particular combination of keywords (second page as of 2007-12-02), but I’m cool with that.
This has me wondering something, though. Is there some rumor floating around that [...]
Posted in sports on Jul 29th, 2007
Shortly after Saturday’s 3-1 victory over the San Diego Padres, the Houston Astros announced they were sending RP Dan Wheeler to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in exchange for 3B Ty Wigginton.
The move shores up the third base position for the next few years, as Wigginton is under team control through the 2009 season. [...]
Posted in sports on Jul 25th, 2007
What an incredible day for Craig Biggio and Houston Astros fans.
In an emotional press conference, Biggio announced that this would be his last season as a ball player. He also wrote a long post on MLBlogs saying thank you to the fans.
As if that wasn’t enough, Biggio went out that night and helped the [...]
Posted in sports on Jul 5th, 2007
Due to John Smoltz’ ailing shoulder, Roy Oswalt was able to nab a spot on the 2007 All-Star roster without winning the National League Final Vote campaign. As the 6th highest vote getter among NL starting pitchers, Oswalt received the honor when Smoltz was forced to back out.
Atta boy, Roy!