third biggest news

Wasn’t that cool? Ryan Dempster’s big return! SDP — @ PHI CHC 1.0 @ COL SFG 2.0 v CIN HOU 5.0 v ATL PHI 5.0 v SDP 1.0. We’ve been here before. It’d be nice to actually take that next step, and these are the matchups to do it. (Though I’m sure the Giants are … Continue reading “third biggest news”

Wasn’t that cool? Ryan Dempster’s big return!

SDP --- @ PHI
CHC 1.0 @ COL
SFG 2.0 v CIN
HOU 5.0 v ATL
PHI 5.0 v SDP

1.0. We’ve been here before. It’d be nice to actually take that next step, and these are the matchups to do it. (Though I’m sure the Giants are thinking similarly.)

All of 2 AL games on the schedule today. I am not bothering with this tommorow, so the matchups listed are for then and not today.

Actual Conversation From Yesterday

M: So, are you going to be okay? We decided to form a support group for you.
Me: Huh?
M: We know you’re going to have a tough time losing Brendan Harris.

Sniff. I guess Nomar will be okay.

Sosa will be fine. Given they’re playing in Coors, you’d have to tie Sammy to something with an extra strong knot to keep him from playing. Sammy’s .362/.434/.782 in Coors in 174 at bats.

Below the radar: Joe Borowski’s return has quietly been pushed from “mid August” to September. There’s a bit of a roster construction reason for this; when he and Hollandsworth return, they have 26 guys for 25 roster spots, which would be helped by waiting till September. (We were betting on “Kent Mercker suddenly develops slight elbow pain.”) But given the uncertain nature of Joe’s injury, I wonder if there’s more going on here.

I’m thinking this is the Phillies Last Stand. They’ve got to gain ground on SDP (or ATL, who did pass the Padres) in this series or it’s probably not going to happen for them.

Astros made the right move sticking in this and not unloading. You can make a run from 5 games out.

The White Sox aren’t toast yet, but I’d go grab some butter.

july hits

What it took me a couple months to realize is while my Unique Visitors/Number of Visitors trended down have gone down since this spring, the reason is pretty obvious and stupid: when I got rid of those pages that were just generating bad search results because I didn’t want people coming here just because of … Continue reading “july hits”

What it took me a couple months to realize is while my Unique Visitors/Number of Visitors trended down have gone down since this spring, the reason is pretty obvious and stupid: when I got rid of those pages that were just generating bad search results because I didn’t want people coming here just because of bad search results, the raw number of visitors was going to take a big dive.

Anyway, numbers from this month
– Pages hit a new high (by a bunch)
– Hits hit a new high (by a bunch)
– Bandwidth hit a new high (but I’m still okay)

I take it people are checking back for new updates a lot? I can not encourage you enough to use the RSS if want to get the latest stuff delivered to you rather than checking back every so often. And also get to see beta site design changes that no one comments on.

Tuesday’s the busiest day of the week.

Articles of the Month

02/10/01 WOW
07/04/04 James Kalyn goes to RAW House Shows (leading till the last few days and thanks to thesmartmarks.com forums for linking)
07/05/05 RAW
02/11/04 TNA
07/02/04 Impact
07/19/04 RAW
07/11/04 Vengeance
12/16/00 WOW
07/11/04 Heat
07/08/05 SmackDown!

Non-articles of the month and I’ll count indexes in here, why not

John Cena Raps
CMLL Recap Index
Lucha Times
Scott Christ Index
US Title History
TNA Index (which I haven’t updated in weeks)
Old SmackDown Index (huh)
Heat Index
Cruiserweight Title History
Velocity Index

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