Lancaster comes crawling towards the end of May with a 13-33 record.  It is the second worst in all of full season baseball.  So you should see a fair amount of “bad” but there is also so “good” or at least some “not so bad” sprinkled in.  Let’s take a look.

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Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. In watching the ongoing melt-down that is the career of one Cecil Cooper as manager of the Houston Astros, there are a lot of parallels that come to mind.  It’s starting to feel reminiscent of President Richard Nixon’s last days in office or perhaps General George Custer’s final planning meetings with his lieutenants (although we’d probably need to ask Jim R to be sure).   Baseball-wise, Cooper is facing adversity both on the field and in the clubhouse.  His starting pitching has been sub-par, his offense has been non-existent and his bullpen, supposedly the rock for him to rely on, has been decimated by injury.  As a result of all those things (but not only those things), his charges, the Astros are 18-27, in last place in the division and currently in possession of the 3rd worst record in all of baseball.  In response, Cooper is traveling down an unfortunate but familiar path for failed managers: fighting battles through the media, particularly with your players. Read the rest of this entry »

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Astros 1
Redlegs 6

W: Arroyo (7-3) | L: Paulino (1-4)
HR: Bruce, repeatedly. Some other asshole, too.

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May in Kentucky means more than the Kentucky Derby. As we reach the end of May, Lexington finds itself just of the pace. They are 23-22 and 2 games back of Southern Division leading Charleston. Let’s see how the Legends stack up at the end of May.

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1521 – Martin Luther was banned by the Edict of Worms because of his religious beliefs and writings.
1805 – Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned King of Italy in Milan Cathedral.
1836 – The U.S. House of Representatives adopted what has been called the Gag Rule.
1868 – U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted, by one vote, of all charges in his impeachment trial.
1896 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average appeared for the first time in the “Wall Street Journal.”
1908 – In Persia, the first oil strike was made in the Middle East.
1938 – The House Committee on Un-American Activities began its work of searching for subversives in the United States.
1940 – The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.
1946 – A patent was filed in the United States for an H-bomb.
1959 – The word “Frisbee” became a registered trademark of Wham-O.
1973 – Kathy Schmidt set an American women’s javelin record with a throw of 207 feet, 10 inches.
1975 – American stuntman Evel Knievel suffered severe spinal injuries in Britain when he crashed while attempting to jump 13 buses in his car.
1978 – The first legal casino in the Eastern U.S. opened in Atlantic City, NJ.
1998 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island was mainly in New Jersey, not New York.
1998 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police officers in high-speed chases are liable for bystander injuries only if their “actions shock the conscience.”
2009 – The Houston Astros lost their 6th straight.

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