The annual Hot Stove meeting of the Rocky Mountain chapter of SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research, will take place at the Breckenridge Brewery, 2220 Blake Street in Denver, on Saturday, January 30th, 2010, beginning at 10:00 am. The meeting is being held in conjunction with SABR chapters around the country as part of SABR Day In America, and will include the following:

1. a research presentation by Kyle Banister;

2. a point-counterpoint debate on current issues in the Game. The topic this time will be instant replay;

3. a gameshow style trivia contest

4. a silent auction

The meeting is free and open to SABR members and their guests, as well as the general public. If you would like to participate in either the trivia contest or the debate, please indicate so by commenting to this post.

Also, if you have any items you would like to donate to the auction, please let us know.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON JANUARY 30th !!

There’s a nice piece on Carroll Hardy in Sunday’s Boston Globe. You may recall that he was the featured guest at the Hot Stove in January.

Douglas Dinsmoor - openstance.com

What do you get when you cross poetry with the daily box score? The Box Score Haiku…Review the 2009 Colorado Rockies season in a 5 - 7 - 5 syllable format. Relive the 162 game magic that was the 2009 season.  Besides game-by-game haiku’s there is also some interesting stats that I threw into the mix. Obviously I would appreciate if you bought a book but you may also download a pdf of the book for free. Read it and pass it along. If you found some value in it, then donate to my kid’s college fund! Visit http://boxscorehaiku.blogspot.com/

For those of you who missed the Rocky Mountain SABR banquet on November 13, here’s a brief summary of the evening’s events.

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If you’ve arrived at this website homepage looking to register for the Rocky Mountain SABR banquet, you’re in the right place !!! All you have to do is click on “Banquet” just above this message, scroll down to the registration form and click on it, then print it out! Then simply mail in your form and payment to the address shown. You’re all set to enjoy and evening of baseball music and art at the Denver Athletic Club !!

Courtesy of Maury Brown’s Biz of Baseball website. It’s an interesting read, even if you’re not really a Rockies fan.

In the article about thursday’s game, in which Renck barely mentions the game, he says; “The Dodgers have lost four straight, their champagne a vintage until they clinched a postseason berth Thursday when the Rockies eliminated the Braves.”  In fact, the Dodgers clinched a post season birth several days ago. 

In a review of the movie “Sugar”, Mr. Renck wrote:

“This is not to illicit sympathy”

The difference between the words illicit and elicit should be known to anyone writing for a living.    

S COOK

Registration for our 12th annual banquet is officially underway. You can sign up for the baseball music and art themed event on Friday, November 13th, 2009 at the Denver Athletic Club simply by clicking on “Banquet” on this homepage and pulling up the registration form. Click on the form, print it out and mail it in. It’s that easy!

Other stuff: If you see this today (Wed, Sept 16) before noon, today is our monthly luncheon at the Wynkoop. Also, if you’re planning to attend the Sat, Sept 26 game with the group, please get me $20 per ticket ASAP. We’re also doing the Thurs, Oct 1 game.

God Save the Rockies

Paul Parker

“SAN FRANCISCO — A single, clear thought came to mind while watching Tim Lincecum on a cool Monday night at AT&T Park: helpless.”

“Helpless” is certainly not the thought (or the word) that came into my mind while watching Lincecum.  Perhaps Mr Renck meant to say “while watching the Rockies try to hit Tim Lincecum”  

Mr Renck a tiny bit of proof reading would catch stuff like this and possibly bring your articles up to the level of the merely worthless.  A little proof reading might prevent you from writing “Eugenio Velez’s sacrifice lead widened the bulge to 3-0.” or Houston Street “will throw the bull pen”