Thursday, November 15, 2007 - Posts

It's like ''The Natural'' with more women

As you may have already heard, Ryan Sweeney finally enjoyed his first extra-base hit of Arizona Fall League play today -- a three-run homer, as a matter of fact.

Unfortunately, there isn't any available video of this very special moment ... until now:



One question: It took him 79 at-bats to get an extra-base hit against that competition?

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Quiet day out there -- if you couldn't tell -- so here are some links:

*Brooks Boyer apologizes repeatedly for the pairing of Ed Farmer and Chris Singleton.

*The Cheat talks baserunning, and informs us that Baseball Prospectus has come to the radical conclusion that the White Sox are kinda slow.

*Yahoo's Jeff Passan ranks 144 free agents -- Torii Hunter is No. 3; Kosuke Fukudome is No. 6, and Aaron Rowand is No. 10.

*I'm not quite sure how to feel about this T-shirt, with Missouri and Kansas one win away from a epic game at Arrowhead Stadium.  The intro paragraph sets the scene:

You know what the best part of Kansas and Missouri having their best ever seasons at the very same time is? The entire nation will get exposed to what is possibly the most bitter and hateful rivalry in the country in all it's glory (or shame, if you prefer). You can have your Ohio State v. Michigan or Alabama v. Auburn, but the last time I checked nobody from Columbus ever went to Ann Arbor and systematically executed every man they could find while burning the town to the ground. And certainly nobody made t-shirts later celebrating that fact.

It's referring to the Lawrence Massacre of 1863, and it's hard to imagine a more macabre gameday shirt.  Yet, at the same time, it's more imaginative than the cliché "Muck Fizzou" or one mascot bending the other over, which dominated the rivalry t-shirt scene for the years I was there.  So I guess I'd award points for going in a different direction, but wow...
posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:54 AM by Jim with 4 Comments