Cleveland Cold, Jamie’s Journey
Not much in the news today for you. John Hickey reports it’s cold and snowing in Cleveland.
Larry Stone writes about the long journey of Jamie Burke. You want grit? This article contains 100% of your RDA of grit. Stone does not, however, ask Burke about his stellar pitching performance against the Rainiers. I think they’ve all secretly interviewed him and are saving the write-up for an even slower news day. We’ll see.
Or — Jamie! Email us! We’ll chat about your W.
Stone also handles the Notebook duties, giving us Broussard, and Ho-Ram looking forward to his start.
Matsuzaka made his debut and looked great. His home opener will be against the M’s. Media storm approaches.
Book plugging: I don’t think I mentioned this, so — I did an interview with The Hardball Times that ran on Monday. Events got away from me.
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Beltre’s having a tough day out there. Being turned into a giant ice cube thanks to a bad pitcher can’t be helping any.
If they call the game after this inning, when it’s an official game, does Byrd still get credit for a “no-hitter”?
BTW, there’s a certain book about “Cheating” that has a whole section about delaying the game for strategic reasons….
It’s amazing how the “rosin” only accumulated on the underside of the bill of his cap.
It must be magic rosin.
In Boston, back in 1912, they rigged a Smokey Joe Wood-Walter Johnson matchup–ostensibly to please the fans, but some suspect that it was really to draw a large crowd ($).
Well, they won’t have to rig a Matsuzake-Hernandez matchup to draw a large crowd, but that match-up could happen. [And if it does…]