moving days

not talking about wood. not talking about wood because who the heck knows at this point. pretending everything is fine and we won’t remember this when we’re dousing each other with champagne and such, or that we’ll only remember it in the ‘ha, remember when we were stupidly freaked out about it to the point … Continue reading “moving days”

not talking about wood.

not talking about wood because who the heck knows at this point. pretending everything is fine and we won’t remember this when we’re dousing each other with champagne and such, or that we’ll only remember it in the ‘ha, remember when we were stupidly freaked out about it to the point we were afraid to use capital letters’ kinda way.

The thing I abhor about the ‘baseball to the hill to talk about steriods’ is most sports news ‘people’ come to a conculsion that there will actually be no real news or even definte conclusion about this, and yet they can discuss it for 40 hours straight.

Bubble talk is so much more fun, even when it distills down to “here’s 8 teams which did not do all they should’ve done to get in – pick 4 of ’em.”

I’m getting the impression they’ll be starting Joe as the closer when they go north (or less so, because the first games in Arizona and all.) Which would happily move LaTroy to the 8th and leave Dempster well up in the air but unofficially closer in waiting.

Camden Chat: Scott’s gone semi-professional. (I know!) I’ll add his link to the side because I need my daily Sammy Sosa updates. Also, it’s the only semi-professional site which would ever put somewhere here on top of it’s list.

Meanwhile, just about everyone not named Ruiz has appeared to leave All-Baseball in the last two weeks to go to either .

It’s so weird; surely there are things going on in the inside which they haven’t hinted about, but from one web location to another web location to the do same exact stuff with a slightly worse graphical format at the beginning. (I love white backgrounds, you know that.) Why make the change? What’s the advantage? It’s more work for me remembering where everything is (and eventually getting adding the links over there), and “we wanted to try out new software” seems to for me. Of course I’m the one who tries everything live and pays for it, so I guess there’s some semi-professionalism to that concept.

Though if you’re doing it ot mess with the software, could you please put a permalinks on top? Thanks.

It’s a pretty freaking smart idea to have some interesting new content to welcome in a new site

  • CubTown.baseballtoaster.com has a inteview with debuting Cubs pbp man Len Kasper (part 1/part 2)
  • Baseball Analysts, which is more general than Cubs, co-hosts a Top 40 Cubs Prospects list. I apperciate the idea of trying to do some cross promotion, but it’d be kinda nice to have one page for the discussions on all 40 rather than to have to flip back and forth between there and tCR for 31 to 40, 20 to 31, 11 to 20, 10-6, 5-1.



    Say, if I’m looking for all the guys in Peoria whom I might be able to catch @ Kane County, the list at the end isn’t totally convivent…so here’s one of my own.

                          POS  Team
    1. Brian Dopirak     1B   Daytona
    2. Felix Pie         CF   West Ten
    3. Angel Guzman      SP   Iowa
    4. Ryan Harvey       RF   Peoria
    5. Reynel Pinto      SP   Iowa
    6. Jason Dubois      LF   Chicago (hopefully)
    7. Sean Marshall     SP   West Ten
    8. Billy Petrick     SP   Daytona
    9. Jon Leicester     RP   Chicago (maybe)
    10. Matt Murton       RF   West Ten
    11. Bobby Brownlie    SP   Iowa
    12. Grant Johnson     SP   Daytona or Peoria
    13. Richard Lewis     2B   Iowa
    14. Mike Wuertz       RP   Iowa (probably)
    15. Roberto Novoa     RP   Iowa
    16. Matt Craig       1B/3B Iowa
    17. Mark Reed         CA   Peoria
    18. Will Ohman        RP   Iowa (perhaps)
    19. Jon Connolly      SP   West Ten
    20. Brandon Sing      1B   West Ten
    21. Geovany Soto      CA   Iowa
    22. Bear Bay          SP   Daytona
    23. Ronny Cedeno      SS   Iowa
    24. Carlos Marmol     SP   Daytona
    25. Eric Patterson    2B   Daytona (maybe)
    26. Jake Fox          CA   Daytona
    27. Rich Hill         SP   West Tenn
    28. Micah Hoffpauir  1B/OF Iowa
    29. Ricky Nolasco     SP   Iowa
    30. Chadd Blasko      SP   60 DL
    31. Jae-Kuk Ryu       SP   West Ten
    32. Russ Rohlicek     RP   Iowa
    33. Mike Fontenot     2B   West Ten
    34. Robert Ransom     SP   Daytona
    35. Scott Moore       3B   Daytona
    36. Darin Downs       SP   Peoria
    37. Carlos Vazquez    SP   West Ten
    38. Dave Crouthers    ?P   Iowa
    39. Adam Greenberg    LF   West Ten
    40. Jermaine Van BurenRP   Iowa



    Harvey, Reed, Downs and maybe Grant. Less than I’d hope, but I presume it’s harder to read guys who are at that level.