Today’s Troy Renck award by S Cook
June 21st, 2009Today’s “i’m too lazy and too important to proofread my s–t” award goes to Mr Renck himself for misspelling the name Arizona St player Kole Calhoun as “Cole”
Stealing Home
June 19th, 2009I went by the Invesco Field parking lot the other day to take some photos. I’m working on a ballparks “relics” section of my Web site, and I wanted to get some shots of the the Bears / Mile High Stadium home plate marker and the corresponding sign.
Sorry to report that the shiny plate that SABR installed is no longer there. It looks like the lot was recently repaved, so that might have something to do with it. Snow plows might also be the culprit. You can still tell where it was. There’s residual adhesive, and a couple of bolts sticking out.
I hope this is a temporary condition, and that the marker will be replaced. A couple of suggestions for this and future projects:
- Instead of a blank home plate, dress it up with some usefull contextual info like they did with Comiskey Park (among others - see here and here.)
- It’s great that the SABR logo is on the descriptive sign some 500 feet away from the plate. But I suspect only a tiny fraction of those that manage to find the sign have any clue what SABR stands for. Along with the logo, why not spell out “Society for American Baseball Research” underneath the logo?
My two cents.
Douglas Dinsmoor
For all of you Troy Renck fans
June 19th, 2009I sent a letter to the sports editor at the Denver Post this morning. It was in response to something he wrote in last Sunday’s paper. In case they don’t publish it, I posted it to my blog so that I could share it with you.
Douglas Dinsmoor
openstance.com
Today’s Troy Renck award awarded by S Cook
June 13th, 2009Today’s Troy Renck: “i’m too lazy and too important to proofread my s–t” award goes to Patrick Saunders who wrote: “Earlier in the sixth the Rockies tied the game in most unlikely fashion. With Troy Tulowitzki on second following a walk and Stewart on second after getting plunked…”
Or perhaps they really had two guys on second.
The top ten in career times on base
May 20th, 2009| 1. | Pete Rose | 5929 | B |
| 2. | Barry Bonds | 5599 | L |
| 3. | Ty Cobb+ | 5532 | L |
| 4. | Rickey Henderson | 5343 | R |
| 5. | Carl Yastrzemski+ | 5304 | L |
| 6. | Stan Musial+ | 5282 | L |
| 7. | Hank Aaron+ | 5205 | R |
| 8. | Tris Speaker+ | 4998 | L |
| 9. | Babe Ruth+ | 4978 | L |
| 10. | Eddie Collins |
Observations of Thursday afternoon’s game by S Cook
May 16th, 20091)The top of the first was the worst defensive inning I have seen in many years. I don’t know if Atkings hitting woes are hurting his fielding, but he looked like he was jerking off out there
2) Possibly the weakest batting order the Rockies have ever put on the field. Against a southpaw the right handed hitters were Spilbourghs, Barmes, Murton!, Atkins, Torrealba and the pitcher. Murton batting clean up and playing left field in place of ?
3) I don’t know if I can remember seeing a cleanup hitter pinch hit for as Murton was.
4) LaTroy Hawkins still isn’t very good. Barmes and Helton hit hard line drives to outfielders. Seth Smith walked and Hawpe was called out on a borderline pitch to end the game representing the tying run. Not with the tying run on first as the idiot Renck said. I guess we should be pleased he was only off by one.
Troy Renck head scratcher of the day
April 21st, 2009Mr Renck informed us today that the starting pitching had been so bad that the opponents had scored first five times. Since they have played 12 games, the significance of this fact escapes me.
RMSABR Spring Meeting
April 20th, 2009Just a reminder to all that the Rocky Mountain Chapter will have its Spring meeting on April 25, 2009, starting at 2pm at the Breckenridge Brewery at 22nd and Blake Street, in the shadow of Coors Field, in Denver. All are welcome to attend.
The chapter also has tickets for the Saturday night game for the Rockies against the NL West leading LA Dodgers. Tickets are $20, and can be purchased at the meeting or by contacting Matt Repplinger at 303-304-0156
Death of Johnny Blanchard
March 28th, 2009It is with deep regret that I inform you of the passing of Johnny Blanchard today, at age 76. Johnny had a heart attack. He of course was one of our guests for the Denver Bears Reunion last April. Arlene McDonald, who served as his hostess in Denver and became friendly with the Blanchards, will express the regrets of the Rocky Mountain chapter of SABR to the Blanchard family.
Paul Parker
Here’s a link to Johnny’s stats at Baseball Reference
From Spring Training in AZ
March 24th, 2009I couldn’t agree more with Paul’s comments about the World Baseball Classic…..yawn! and 39 games in spring training has coach lou (cubbies, you know??!!) just drained and rather “testy” these days.
I have found a few baseball blogs that may interest RMSABR members
the above is a Rockies blog page…..but I think it has some oversight by MLB
www.sbnation.com/mlb/springtraining
obviously the MLB is involved with the above noted website. It DOES have links to other team blogs…….some are MLB based, some are fan based……and this website is how I found the PurpleRow website.
I found both of the above links on www.bleedcubbieblue.com which is great entertainment. It is a TRUE fan operated blog and they do NOT hold back when things are NOT going well for the Cubs. At one point when things were NOT going well for the Cubs…there was a FIRE LOU NOW campaign complete with less than flattering pictures of Coach Lou. There is no MLB nor team management censorship…fans speak their true feelings. ..and I find that is REALLY when blogs are fun
hope to see all you Rockies fans at the Cubs/Rox game tomorrow. Drop by to say HELLO if you are at the game. I sit in section 205, row BB
Annie
