The Red Sox after their marathon doubleheader debacle against the Yankees Friday, have shed another pitcher, Rudy Seanez was designated for assignment and Jermaine Van Buren called up to replace him.
Between games of the doubleheader, the Red Sox gave Jason Johnson the DFA tag and activated Keith Foulke from the DL.
Meanwhile, Theo Epstein plans to take on Wayne Krivsky in a game of rock/paper/scissors for the next mediocre middle reliever who wanders across the waiver wire.
"Hey, Wayne, look over there, it's Chad Poronto!"
In his major league career, Seanez started with Cleveland and then went to San Diego to Los Angeles to Atlanta back to San Diego back to Atlanta to Texas to Boston to Kansas City to Florida back to San Diego for a third time and then back to Boston.
Will Seanez be the next middle reliever caught by Wayne Krivsky's press gang?
There are 8 US teams. They play in one pool. The teams from outside the US make up the other pool. The Mexican representative is from Matamoros, which is the home of the longest continuously staffed U.S. consulate.
Just how long this time period is not stated. I'm assuming that it opened AFTER the Mexican-American war.
Saudi Arabia has never won the Little League Baseball World Series. The first year a Saudi Arabian team qualified for the Little League Baseball World Series was 1983. Arabian American Little League has represented the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Region at the Little League Baseball World Series 13 times. This year's team marks the league's seventh consecutive World Series appearance and 12th since 1994.
For the fifth year since the tournament expanded from eight to 16 teams in 2001, every team will have at least one game on national television as ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 team up to bring Little League Baseball into millions of homes.
Watching an old "To Tell the Truth" from the 1970s, one of the contestants was a member of the US Men's Olympic volleyball team competing in the 1972 Olympics.
Bill Cullen thought the Americans deserved to win because they were "simon pure" as opposed to the Soviets and Cubans.
I'm going to ask to get hired by the County of Los Angeles Public Library when it's time to retire so I can go out as a County instead of a City employee.
Hmm, I'm late to the game but let me give this a shot...
24 -I actually know a girl who goes to school in Manchester NH! She and I were both part of school spring break trips that went down to Jacksonville and helped build houses for Habitat for Humanity. Ooh! And now I can mention a President...Jimmah Carter, who needs to keep his mouth shut and go build more houses...
57 - Before Bob goes to the...Kings game?, can we get a review of "Munich"?
I have serious qualms about reading anything that involves Darryl Strawberry, whom I put on the same level of baseball players as Hal Chase and Jim Devlin.
And his Crenshaw High basketball team beat my Kennedy High basketball team in the City semis in my sophomore year. They also beat Kennedy in the finals the year before, but I wasn't at Kennedy then.
I can nurse a grudge a long time.
John Elway is the subject of one too even though he went to my archrival high school many years before I started high school.
In Cal Ripken WS news, Hilo is up 6-1 in the 4th inning of the US Championship Game against an Arkansas team. Winner plays Mexico tomorrow for the 2006 Championship.
Oh wow. Hilo's pitcher just caught a line drive back through the box, barehanded. Take that, Maddux! On to the bottom of the 4th/top of the 5th (I'm not sure who the home team is). It's on OLN, if anyone's interested and gets the channel.
Ok, Hilo's the home team. The pitcher has also hit a 3-run homerun which put his team ahead at the time 3-1, and he struck out 7 in a row at one point.
I lasted about three practices in LL, then my own pitcher hit me twice in three pitches in the knee, and I concluded that if that continued I'd have arthritis at the age of 20, so I quit.
My Boy Scout troop folded when I'd just made 2nd class, too.
I didn't have a lot of luck with youth activities.
The Mets are wearing the 80's style pullover jerseys. No buttons.
It's the pinstriped jersey with blue hats. Why they don't wear those every home game, I'll never understand. The black hats are atrocious, and the pinnies look nice.
Game over! Hilo wins, 8-1, US Champeens! Plays Mexico tomorrow for World Title!
Add this to Kim Kim's Women's Open win last Sunday and Dean Wilson's International Championship the same day (ok, Stableford scoring, but who cares), and Hawai'i is having a good sports week.
33 "Monterrey, Mexico was the first international team to win the LLWS in 1957, defeating a team from La Mesa, California.
"They won it again in 1958.
"So says Wiki. It's probably wrong."
No, it's true. I know because it was one of the true-life stories in "The Readers Digest Treasury for Young Readers" that my parents got for not long before I started Little League. It was the first time I'd even heard of the LLWS, and it became my dream to play in it. I still hope to someday.
Maybe, but they did crush the spirits of Red Sox fans for a decade or more, and for that I shall always be eternally grateful.
Game six was the same night as my brother's bachelor party, so I watched it in the basement of a firehouse in Morristown, NJ, amidst a couple dozen drunken Mets fans and a single, very vocal, drunken Sox fan. With two outs in the tenth, he started going on and on about how it was destiny that the Sox had won the Series, and in your face, Mets fans. The schadenfreude was extra special that night.
The first time I went to the Cask'n Flagon across from Fenway Park, I was 19, and fairly hammered. I casually dropped a Buckner joke. I was almost killed.
183 I have to admit, I never did understand why Buckner was still playing first when they had a first baseman with good knees on the bench that inning.
188 No reason. Stupid managerial choices and a passed ball are the real reasons the Sox lost that game. Bob Stanley and John McNamara are the villains.
209 - More importantly, will Bob leave this thread up until that happens?
Meanwhile Stand Pat Gillick seems to have just channeled Ed Wade, dealing two prospects for JAMIE $*%@#&( Moyer!!! Time to go beat my head against a wall until I fall asleep/pass out...
From reading some of the previous posts, I think there was a goal to get to a thousand? A noble goal and one day we will achieve this!
My contribution to Bob's post: I don't remember when it was that Bill James described Rudy Seanez as the "the worst pitching prospect in the history of the world." James later wrote that he used the comment hyperbolically, I guess to promote his book. Anyway, if this is the end for Rudy, he had a heckuva long career.
Show the Banterers how to do it. Who's with me?
The World Cup
Pluto
Harold Reynolds
American Presidents
Korea
Also, the EPL started today.
Only 995 to go. I think we're gonna make it.
I'm not going to take a lap
I like the way you think.
two laps for saying you don't wanna take a lap.
New Hampshire 6, Oregon 1
Saudi Arabia 5, Canada 0
Louisiana 1, Missouri 0 - 9 innings
Today:
Japan no-hit Russia 11-0 in a 5-inning, mercy rule shortened game.
Russia really has a problem beating Japan. In a few things.
But they had a head start in that one.
Just how long this time period is not stated. I'm assuming that it opened AFTER the Mexican-American war.
Portsmouth, NH played yesterday!
Lebanon
Berlin
Manchester
Bethlehem
Dublin
And every city in England (add New or North/South)
Phoenix, Arizona is one of the west representiteves
Phoenix, Arizona is one team representing the west
They won it again in 1958.
So says Wiki. It's probably wrong.
If you're new to the EPL, this isn't exactly the best game to watch.
Pluto...That's a tough one.
I know one scientist who doesn't believe that, so I don't believe it either
It's a hybrid. Another point for Pluto.
On the negative side, it supplies us with deadly Plutonium
You needed to know this.
Besides, Bob will just delete my posts anyway. ;^)
A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts.
-Steve Prefontaine
I told him not to drink and drive.
Sometimes it is not good to get older and grasp certain things.
So true. The whole story behind that; the security, the attitude of the German gov't, everything. Just so complex. And sad.
The only person comparable to him in hypocrisy in sports today is Billy Packer.
Bill Cullen thought the Americans deserved to win because they were "simon pure" as opposed to the Soviets and Cubans.
Many of them do not paint a flattering portrait of American society.
But was Bill Cullen in any of them?
He rather enjoyed being the secret square.
That was not meant in any sneaky way. I promise. Really.
I believe it's only on TV in flyover country.
I have nothing to add to this. It stands on its own.
It seems like every kid in Curacao is Andrew Jones in the making.
You know, unless you actually play with the team, what difference does it make who you sign your last contract with?
The Cubs won 5-4 in 10.
I'm writing a letter to the Dodgers, asking for my signing/retirement.
Not Greg Brock. Me. The actual guy typing this.
It makes a difference!
Wait a second...
Bottom of the 7th, one out. runners on first and second for GA.
He doesn't work that much for either so he likely doesn't have an exclusive contract.
Kid from Illinois just got crushed in the face by a fastball. Not pretty.
you're probably wright (KCAL9) He's pretty good broadcaster no?
This means that no one ever hears him.
he had ice on his chin, but appeared o.k.
pointing out the avious & getting paid is a good gig if you ask me. :o)
You do the math.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill...?
24 -I actually know a girl who goes to school in Manchester NH! She and I were both part of school spring break trips that went down to Jacksonville and helped build houses for Habitat for Humanity. Ooh! And now I can mention a President...Jimmah Carter, who needs to keep his mouth shut and go build more houses...
57 - Before Bob goes to the...Kings game?, can we get a review of "Munich"?
93 - Or is Bob DELETING THE BANTERER's posts??
GB, D4P, did you guys see this last night over on DT?
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=34817
Bingo!
What?
I didn't notice any of their vocal stylings on your iPod. Is this your lady's doing...?
Carter-Correct
Munich-Really about what happened later
Banter-somebody stretched to thread horizontally, so they deleted it.
I don't have any songs by either person, but since someone else bought the tickets, I was amenable.
After all, the lady has come to three baseball games with me, which is three more than she would want to attend if given her druthers.
I have no idea where we are sitting in Staples, but rest assured, I will be watching much of the concert on the video board.
In the right place, unfortunately.
We attend different churches.
I have UCLA season tickets.
She had USC season tickets.
But tonight, at least, you'll be sharing the same Faith.
I think in the case of Mr. McGraw and Ms. Hill, I'm the winner in the gawking department.
I thought she would get me a ticket to the Rose Bowl.
I thought wrong.
How does your lady friend feel about you gawking? My lady wife doesn't particularly appreciate it...
Hey! You read the original post! Kudos!
She doesn't really care. I've heard enough tales of going to see movies with Viggo Mortenson in them.
You don't have a wooden staircase in your home do you?
The Random Game Callbacks are coming to an end. They will end on the 27th I believe.
Never to return....
Are the "other news" and "end of RGCs" related...?
The other news isn't all that exciting. Except I can't figure out when Kevin Frandsen of the Giants broke his jaw.
I won't have remote access to all the old newspapers anymore.
And they were fun to write for a while, but they are starting to be more of a burden now.
Least likeable World Series champions ever.
Oh for a piece of debris to fall off of a jet heading to La Guardia to hit that group.
Thank you.
I'll probably write historical pieces on a non-random basis next season.
I have serious qualms about reading anything that involves Darryl Strawberry, whom I put on the same level of baseball players as Hal Chase and Jim Devlin.
I can nurse a grudge a long time.
John Elway is the subject of one too even though he went to my archrival high school many years before I started high school.
But then he went to Stanford. So there....
He cut the head off his girlfriend's cat.
True story.
USA-Italy in the World Cup was close.
Is Sam DC around? Gotta say thanks to this Ortiz fellow for giving COLE HAMELS plenty of runs to work with tonight!
We really could have used his help today.
It's raining.
Poetic Justice.
Snow would be more appropriate for that bunch of miscreants.
I hope there's a Dodgers scout there.
The PC Junior League kids got to the national championship but lost.
Little League
Babe Ruth League
Pony League
I bet Iran had something to do with it.
http://www.littleleague.org/series/2006divisions/index.htm
http://www.baberuthleague.org/series2006.htm
My Boy Scout troop folded when I'd just made 2nd class, too.
I didn't have a lot of luck with youth activities.
Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's the pinstriped jersey with blue hats. Why they don't wear those every home game, I'll never understand. The black hats are atrocious, and the pinnies look nice.
Inadvertent Godwin's Law. Total mistake.
Thank you Mel.
Add this to Kim Kim's Women's Open win last Sunday and Dean Wilson's International Championship the same day (ok, Stableford scoring, but who cares), and Hawai'i is having a good sports week.
My brain is melting as we speak
I'll trie 2 macke it buut eye dunt thinc i willl. heeez killing my breyn. mustt chanje chunnel b4 iz two laatt.
That shouldn't be a major inconvenience.
The record has already been broken. We're going for something much bigger.
"They won it again in 1958.
"So says Wiki. It's probably wrong."
No, it's true. I know because it was one of the true-life stories in "The Readers Digest Treasury for Young Readers" that my parents got for not long before I started Little League. It was the first time I'd even heard of the LLWS, and it became my dream to play in it. I still hope to someday.
It's probably in development.
And I mean that in a good way.
After recent events, I don't think that's happening.
Maybe, but they did crush the spirits of Red Sox fans for a decade or more, and for that I shall always be eternally grateful.
Game six was the same night as my brother's bachelor party, so I watched it in the basement of a firehouse in Morristown, NJ, amidst a couple dozen drunken Mets fans and a single, very vocal, drunken Sox fan. With two outs in the tenth, he started going on and on about how it was destiny that the Sox had won the Series, and in your face, Mets fans. The schadenfreude was extra special that night.
With sheet music, of course
Which means that weekend BO should be around 13 million.
Usually, that means about 40 million bucks domestic...tops. So much for market saturation.
I admit, I'm tempted to go see it as a matinee.
Fans need a scapegoat. Just ask Steve Bartman.
I wouldn't bring him up around The Griddle.
1000 posts is surely in doubt.
MORAL VICTORY!
Yes, I'm laughing too.
Every little bit
Added to what ya got
Makes just a little bit more
Sportsbook.com is offering odds on the LLWS ...
Meanwhile Stand Pat Gillick seems to have just channeled Ed Wade, dealing two prospects for JAMIE $*%@#&( Moyer!!! Time to go beat my head against a wall until I fall asleep/pass out...
I didn't even know Moyer was still alive.
Manny Mota...Mota...Mota
From reading some of the previous posts, I think there was a goal to get to a thousand? A noble goal and one day we will achieve this!
My contribution to Bob's post: I don't remember when it was that Bill James described Rudy Seanez as the "the worst pitching prospect in the history of the world." James later wrote that he used the comment hyperbolically, I guess to promote his book. Anyway, if this is the end for Rudy, he had a heckuva long career.
I have learned something about going to a concert at Staples Center.
No matter who's singing, if you're sitting in the upper bowl everybody sounds like Kenny from "South Park".
There were a LOT of cowboy hats.
It was a pretty good show.
I sense a second wind for the thread.
Glad you had a good time. I've never been to Staples. I Hope it looks as nice as everybody says.
Intimate is not one of them.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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