This Week Month Season to Date in Baseball
Once upon a time, a humble writer took it upon himself to summarize the goings-on in the rest of baseball (even in that bastardized “American” League) for the unwashed masses that stumble across the SnS front page. As the name would imply, this was to be a weekly recap, featuring hot teams and players, the biggest goings-on from the TZ, and a grab bag of other information that may or may not have been interesting. Unfortunately, as both of my regular readers know, the last edition of this “weekly” endeavor was at the beginning of the Beijing Olympics. It was a simpler time, when Shawn Johnson was doing gymnastics instead of dances, and Michael Phelps was doing laps instead of lap dances. A time when the stock market was at 11,782. A time when people even might have thought that Cecil Cooper was remotely competent at his job.
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Finally… TWiB has come back to SnS!
SnS Fark Contest – V1
Never has the exploits of one player on the Houston Astros made us all stand up and notice, bringing to the forefront of our memory banks the immortal words of Jack Buck: “I can’t believe what I just saw!” Well okay, we can’t leave out the days of Mitch Melusky dressing up for the Houston nine, but let’s just leave sleeping profanity barking dogs lie, okay. Any way, Hunter Pence, the multi-talent baseball playing happy go lucky right fielder-slash-gripit’nripit-batsman is good for perhaps one, two, three hundred or so reactions from the faithful SnS crowd. He makes people very happy and very sad usually at different times in a game or series. Sometimes the cheers are aplenty for a sustained amount of time and then the boos are just as consistent for about the same amount of time, all in spurts and all just about what everyone now expects from our hero. But there is one occasion this year when the young man managed to reach new heights of making himself really stand out around here… boy howdy, did he!
The SnS selection for Astros Player of the Month (April)
As we round into the last week of the first month of the MLB season, it’s time for SpikesnStars to look back and select our “Player of the Month”. The SnS APOTM is selected not only for good to great play on and maybe off the field, but for many other factors, Spikes’nStar’s style. First order of business for us though was naming this award to add significance to the trophy we might shell out some cayshe to purchase and award to our selection. Would it be the coveted Zipper award? How about giving someone an Arky? How about the getting a Craig? Something has to ring a bell soon enough for us to go out and have the trophy manufactured for us. Give it some thought and get back to us in the TalkZone on that one. Read the rest of this entry »
SnS is back
Sorry for the downtime this week… Ike and some issues with our host combined to take us down for a while. But we’re back.
This Week in Baseball, Olympic edition
Before we get to baseball, two points:
1. Apologies for the missing TWiB last week – work interfered, along with preparations for Tropical Storm Towles.
2. I absolutely love the Olympics. Every 4 years, I revert to the proverbial “rip the knob off the TV” mode and just lock in to NBC. I will watch synchronized diving. I will watch equestrian. If I could find the fencing medal rounds, I would watch them. I will watch the leader of the free world give an Olympian the traditional slap on the ass.
Not to go all Bill Simmons here, but if you can’t get in to the Olympics as a fan, then I don’t think you and I are ever going to see eye to eye on anything.
The Opening Ceremonies were amazing, especially when you see just how much this country can get mass quantities of people to operate in perfect synchronization. Nothing will ever top lighting the torch with a freaking bow and arrow from across the stadium, but walking across the sky came close.
Now, with that out of the way, on to baseball:
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This Week in Baseball: As the Rumor Mill Churns
“Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up!”
Powerful words. Words to live by. Maybe not so much words to run your professional baseball team by, Drayton.
3 UP:
1. Brewers – so the Astros took 2 of 3… the real key here was going into St. Louis and sweeping a 4 game set. There’s just no better way to break the spirits of the BFiB, and that is something I will always support, especially where the Brew Crew is involved; after all, has a player ever been so aesthetically matched to his city as Prince Fielder in Milwaukee? (Oh, right… John Rocker in Atlanta.)
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