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Scott’s got a recap here. Lance Storm held three belts at once in WCW! THREE BELTS. It’d be almost neat if his match here was part of a master plan by Eddie to turn heel with the smart fans: lay waste to a cruiserweight match, have a eh match with Benoit, don’t sell the cross … Continue reading “ECW One Night Stand”
Scott’s got a recap here.
Lance Storm held three belts at once in WCW! THREE BELTS.
It’d be almost neat if his match here was part of a master plan by Eddie to turn heel with the smart fans: lay waste to a cruiserweight match, have a eh match with Benoit, don’t sell the cross face, get into an arguement with Benoit…
I’ve got a mini-season ticket plan for the Kane County Cougars. It’s mini-over. Ha, I made a lame attempt at a joke. I’ve been scoring at each game. With a pencil and paper. Sorry to let you down, by making the weakest joke possible. You can see the boxscores, but gosh if I know why … Continue reading “Season Tickets, Part 1”
I’ve got a mini-season ticket plan for the Kane County Cougars. It’s mini-over. Ha, I made a lame attempt at a joke.
I’ve been scoring at each game. With a pencil and paper. Sorry to let you down, by making the weakest joke possible.
You can see the boxscores, but gosh if I know why you would want to. This is here so I can find it later, I suppose.
05/08 KC 8, PEO 7 – This was the ‘crazy amount of walks to end a game’ game
First time I saw my seats.
GOOD: two rows behind the third base (visitor) dugout
BAD: there are people already in them
STRANGE: they have a ticket for the same seat as I do, totally legit.
I grabbed an usher, so he too could stare at the tickets. The woman sitting there – mother and daughter I thought, but didn’t ask – were nice enough people equally confused about how they could sell the same seat twice. They had bought their ticket day of, as it was a nice day for that sort of thing. I ended up just grabbing other seats in the row, until the people with tickets for those seats showed up. By then, they had found a substitute ticket for me, so I just tracked it down – and it happened to be behind home plate. Neato.
The one thing I did figure out, sitting a section over from the scouts and the others charting the game and trying to prevent papers from flying all over, was I really needed to act like a professional and get a clipboard to kepe everything in order. You’d think I’d learn this already from the daily allusions on Al Yellon’s blog, including the ways of using them on others. I’m guess I’m slow.
I had this day off, by-product of incredible amounts of annoyance, so I spent it taking care of odds, ends, and clipboards. Got a cheap green one after I couldn’t decide about anything I wanted in a more expensive one.
I’m writing about clipboards. I am single handily killing this blog, then bringing it back to life, then killing it again. This is the point where I know no one’s reading, so I could slip in a paragraph about how I’m bored with writing, writing about everything, and never talk about it again but I’m too bored to do it. I was really set on having a see thru clipboard for whatever reason. The clip isn’t so good, but you get what you pay $4 for.
Anyway, this game sucked. It drizzled early, and made me wish I got a clipboard with a top. I tried to find ways to keep the paper from not getting wet and wrinkly, and then the moonsoon came and it didn’t really matter. The pencil markings of the first few innings are faded. The pen I switched to seemed to have a lot of bubbles, water caused and otherwise.
I really thought about bringing an umbrella to this game, but didn’t want to lug it around. Thought about a hat, and forget it. What a mistake. Even though it doesn’t seem quite possible timewise, I’m blaming the dumbness here about me getting this horrible sore throat->cold for the last week.
I don’t remember much about this game, except the hot chocolate guy coming at the right time.
ALSO
Me: [peacefully scoring the game, trying to watch what’s going on]
Myron Noodleman, wacky roving minor league mascot act, making a poor choice of people: “What’s the score!”
Me: [dumbstruck, but trying to grasp a comeback]: “Uh. [gets it!] I have no idea.”
Noodleman: [leaves to find people to play with]
Me: [thinking, rest of the game] “That line could’ve worked – with an MF attached. DARN IT”
Now this was fun to watch. One of the few guys back from last year’s team (and having the kinda season that’ll keep him in low A for a while), Eddie Kim hit two long home runs. Every home run seemed liked a long one, and they were just killing Fort Wayne. It felt like an even bigger blowout than 7; Fort Wayne picked up 6 runs after fans seemed to get more into in the sun than the game. Even though I felt the need to wear a long sleeve shirt on an 90 degree day, I got a nice tan on my arms and neck.
While putting together a stat cheat sheet before the game (and who doesn’t?) and trying to remember who’s the parent club of the Wizards, I noticed a line in the roster that answered the question: SS Matt Bush. Bush was the 2004 #1 Overall Draft pick by the Padres, mostly for signability reasons. In other words, he was cheap. Padres talked about what a good high school kid they picked – and then he got into a bar fight a week later.
If he got into a bar fight while he was here, I don’t know about it. I did notice he was batting eight, which was striking. He is only 19, and so maybe much shouldn’t be expected at this point, but you sorta expect “the #1 pick” not to be batting second to last, at any age. Unfair, I guess.
Bush has a great arm, though I wasn’t sure about the accuracy. Good range. He’s earned his batting slot so far: 235/277/298 (youch), but didn’t look lost when I saw him, hitting line drives; into a double play the first time up, because of bad base running. Still, at 19, he looks more like a utility fielder than a future all-star.
Velocity: How many PPV buys do you think they added by having the Bashams lay out Nunzio and Spike? 1? 1/2? -15? I guess the OJ/Charlie Haas title match is next week? The plan is to write about the ECW show as it’s on, but I can’t promise I won’t get distracted by the Cubs … Continue reading “06/11 Velocity and 06/12 Heat”
Velocity: How many PPV buys do you think they added by having the Bashams lay out Nunzio and Spike? 1? 1/2? -15?
I guess the OJ/Charlie Haas title match is next week?
The plan is to write about the ECW show as it’s on, but I can’t promise I won’t get distracted by the Cubs game.
I’m just going to watch the show, okay? Okay.
NOTE: If EXTREME!!!!!! Heat does not include a segment with Misirlou playing, I’m disowning everyone.
Heat: I actually did it live but never posted it till way after the show was over, so what was the point of that? What was the point of this show? Was the security bit supposed to pay off but they ran out of time?
Everyone’s disowned, by the by. Show was still good.
This should’ve been up yesterday. Got confused on the dates. A: Minoru b Hirooki Goto B: Wataru Inoue b Tiger Mask B: Jushin Liger b Katsushi Takemura That leaves a jumble. Four way tie for first in Block B, and four way tie for second in Block A. I’ve given up on Block A making … Continue reading “2005, Day 7”
This should’ve been up yesterday. Got confused on the dates.
A: Minoru b Hirooki Goto
B: Wataru Inoue b Tiger Mask
B: Jushin Liger b Katsushi Takemura
That leaves a jumble. Four way tie for first in Block B, and four way tie for second in Block A. I’ve given up on Block A making any sense until the final day, but Block B’s very intersting.
It’d be more dramatic if Black Tiger wasn’t hurt and in his space, because you’d have four equal shots at two spots and some vital matches down the line. Instead, it’s three who do not meet.
Liger: Gedo, Tiger (forfeit?)
Inoue: Anzawa, Takemura
Tiger: Tiger (forfeit), Gedo
These guys should win out. My thinking is one guy will not collect all four points; I just don’t have a clue where it’s coming from. I’m not so sure anymore that Gedo isn’t going to pull out a tie somewhere. His matchup vs Tiger Mask on the last day of the league, with his partner’s (and/or maybe even his own) advancement on the line looks a lot more intersting all the sudden.
If they come to a tie, I believe they’ll do a head to head match. It’s not consisent from year to year, and sometimes the winner of the head to head match up in the league round gets the tiebreaker. Of course, the problem here is they’re all 1-1 against each other.
If I’m repicking here, I’m taking Inoue and Tiger Mask – but that’d almost force two heels would have to advance from Block A.
06/13
A: Koji Kanemoro vs Minoru
Kanemoto clinches at least a share of second with a win. Doubtful.
B: Akiya Anazwa vs Katsushi Takemura
Loser has to beat/draw Inoue to escape a shutout.
B: Black Tiger vs Tiger Mask
Can Rocky go? There’s league altering points he’s leaving on the table if he’s out.
Nice way to start the second half of the tournament with a sure sign we’re about half way thru; injury forfeit! Somehow, I had DDQ finishes worked into the system but not this. (And now I do – FW and FL are forfeit finishes. Results A: El Samurai b Masahito Kakihara A: Koji Kanemoto b … Continue reading “2005, Day 6”
Nice way to start the second half of the tournament with a sure sign we’re about half way thru; injury forfeit! Somehow, I had DDQ finishes worked into the system but not this. (And now I do – FW and FL are forfeit finishes.
Results
A: El Samurai b Masahito Kakihara
A: Koji Kanemoto b Jado
B: Gedo wins by forfeit Black Tiger
Black Tiger’s separated his shoulder. They’ve not ruling him out of any matches besides today’s versus Gedo, but that sorta injury doesn’t sound promising. Since they’d have to put him over in a major way the rest of the way (wins over Lyger and Tiger Mask) to have a successful tournament, I would not be surprised to see him forfeit out, or skip the match on the 13th versus Tiger Mask and wrestle on the 18th if needed to get the points to work.
Those are the last points Gedo’s getting.
Takemura is officaly out by Gedo and Black Tiger not splitting the two points – unless someone can figure out a workable scenario.
I think we can eliminate Jado if I walk thru the match outcomes, but I’m not sure of it. Maybe if I get time.
Kanemoto takes the lead with 6 points and a total of 10 possible, but both Stampede Kid and Hiooki Goto can match him.
Tomorrow
It seems like the Cubs have more pitchers on their 40 man roster than most teams. I wasn’t sure if that was actually true, so I did some checking. (People on 60 Day DLs are excluded) P nonP Blank Angels 19 21 0 Astros 20 19 1 Athletics 19 21 0 Blue Jays 19 20 … Continue reading “40 Man Composition”
It seems like the Cubs have more pitchers on their 40 man roster than most teams. I wasn’t sure if that was actually true, so I did some checking.
(People on 60 Day DLs are excluded)
P nonP Blank Angels 19 21 0 Astros 20 19 1 Athletics 19 21 0 Blue Jays 19 20 1 Braves 18 21 1 Brewers 21 19 0 Cardinals 18 21 1 Cubs 22 18 0 Devil Rays 22 18 0 Diamondbacks 20 18 2 Dodgers 19 21 0 Giants 21 18 1 Indians 23 16 1 Mariners 16 23 1 Marlins 20 20 0 Mets 19 20 1 Nationals 19 20 1 Orioles 19 20 1 Paders 19 21 0 Phillies 22 17 1 Pirates 18 22 0 Rangers 21 18 1 Red Sox 23 17 0 Reds 21 18 1 Rockies 19 21 0 Royals 19 20 1 Tigers 20 19 1 Twins 19 21 0 White Sox 22 18 0 Yankees 21 19 0
Mets totals include Denny Graves, who is not listed on their MLB.com roster yet.
So the Cubs do have more than average, but not extremely so.
eight pages of boring repeatitve discussion into one sentence: I know it’s short sided to draft according to need, and you probably should go with the best player available, but…all I want from this first pick is not another pitcher. Thanks! pick 20 (round 1): LHP Mark Pawelek. Springville, Utah (High School) BOOOOOOOOO! (best lefty … Continue reading “2005 draft”
eight pages of boring repeatitve discussion into one sentence: I know it’s short sided to draft according to need, and you probably should go with the best player available, but…all I want from this first pick is not another pitcher. Thanks!
pick 20 (round 1): LHP Mark Pawelek. Springville, Utah (High School)
BOOOOOOOOO!
(best lefty in the draft, 95-96 MPH fastball)
(boras client. BOOOOOOOOOO!)
MLB says pick 68, LHP Donald Veal (from a CC), is a Cubs pick – but I thought we lost that one for Henry Blanco.
pick 100 (round 3): RHP Mark Holliman, UofMiss
BOOOOOOOOO! This surely is a case of spite drafting.
pick 108 (round 3): RHP Michael Billek, UCF
BOOOOOoooooo whatever
As usual, I had stuff to accomplish, so I made the best of it by reading the preview for tonight’s Cubs game on the official site. The striking part of it, excluding Chacin’s bionic eyes, was how much more it read like a preview of the next series, rather than this one. Not that Ms. … Continue reading “border war”
As usual, I had stuff to accomplish, so I made the best of it by reading the preview for tonight’s Cubs game on the official site. The striking part of it, excluding Chacin’s bionic eyes, was how much more it read like a preview of the next series, rather than this one. Not that Ms. Muskrat will be alone; ‘the Red Sox at Wrigley’ story has the makings of a candy cigarettes to the media this week: sugary, addictive and consuming. However, those who look ahead to Friday are missing on the kind of series which best represents the everyday emotions of interleague baseball: the Blue Jays vs the Cubs.
Fans of both sides have eagerly been anticipating the return series, ever since Reed Johnson’s walk off home run in the bottom of the 10th, two long years ago. It’s the chance for the Cubs to redeem themselves, and finally shake off the terrible curse of Aquilino.
While the boys in blue and not blue will settle it on the field, the one question that stills needs to be answered is a simple one: which city is better, Chicago or Toronto? I don’t ask the question to divide – I have friends in Toronto, and also friends I think live in Toronto because I am quite dumb when it comes to Canadian geography – but to learn.
| Toronto | Chicago | Winner | |
| really tall tower | CN | Sears | PUSH (0-0-1) (though I think CN looks nicer) |
| body of water | Ontario | Michigan | Toronto (1-0-1) (There’s no great "lake Illinois") |
| hockey team | Maple Leafs | Wolves | Chicago (1-1-1) (team actually wins in playoffs) |
| football team | Argonauts | Bears | Toronto (2-1-1) (team actually wins) |
| chronically unhappy music personality |
 Ed the Sock |
 Billy Corgan |
Toronto (3-1-1) (more relevant) |
| Jalen Rose | has him | had him | Chicago (3-2-1) (bricklayers are a dime a dozen) |
| lasting Joe Carter memory | world series winning home run | horrible announcer | Toronto (4-2-1) (this maybe should count for 2) |
| feelings on blue | no comment | loving it | Chicago (4-3-1) (how can you hate blue?) |
| last world championship | 1992 | no comment | Toronto (5-3-1) (grrrrr) |
| up and coming third baseman | Aramis Ramirez | Jim Hendry! (5-4-1) (took a while for that one to work) |
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| widespread municipal corruption | maybe | for sure! | Toronto (6-4-1) (though it may cost me my life) |
| great second baseman who played a little too long |
Roberto Alomar | Ryne Sandburg | Chicago (6-5-1) (at least Ryno didn’t cripple his HOF bid) |
| greatest tag team |  Edge and Christian |
 Legion of Doom |
Toronto (7-5-1) (though Matt protests the vote) |
| best player ever | Dave Steib (or maybe Alomar) | Sammy Sosa (or maybe Ernie; don’t make me decide this) |
Chicago (7-6-1) (Steib was really good when he was good, but he’s also a long shot for the HOF.) |
Your Winner: Toronto. It’s easy when you break it down scientifically.
Things were up from May, though not as much as April. Which is surprising to me, because it didn’t seem like we had as much new content. Maybe it’s mysterious AAA love. Top Articles 02/10/01 WOW 05/18/03 Judgement Day (Scott) 11/24/03 RAW (Scott) 12/03/99 RollerJam 06/04/04 Impact (Scott) 08/16/04 RAW (Scott) 11/21/03 UFC (Scott) 02/10/01 … Continue reading “05/05 Stats”
Things were up from May, though not as much as April. Which is surprising to me, because it didn’t seem like we had as much new content. Maybe it’s mysterious AAA love.
Top Articles
02/10/01 WOW
05/18/03 Judgement Day (Scott)
11/24/03 RAW (Scott)
12/03/99 RollerJam
06/04/04 Impact (Scott)
08/16/04 RAW (Scott)
11/21/03 UFC (Scott)
02/10/01 WOW (Tanvir)
01/30/05 Rumble (Butch)
05/08/05 Heat
Top Statics
John Cena Raps
Lucha Times
Cubs Index
CMLL Index
Peoria Chiefs roster page (which never has been updated. blame search engines)
AAA Index
WWE Info index
WWE Women’s Championship
2004 RAW Index
TNA Index
(super J misses, barely)
Search Engine: Google (9 to 1)
Search Key Phrase: CMLL
Search Key Word: wwe
Referers
http://www.butchrosser.net/
http://deathvalleydriver.com/
http://suplexmasta.blogspot.com/
http://www.weeklyvisitor.com/
http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/
http://www.ddtdigest.com/
http://www.thecubdom.com/
http://www.thegonz.org/
http://matt22.blogspot.com/
http://the-w.com/
There’s a scattering of hits from PDAs this month. Anyone checking this site on regularlly on a moblie device. Is it ugly or really really ugly? Could I do something to help?
Great. The White Sox game is running late, which was entirely likely from the start, and so we get no coverage till they’re done. But they’re putting a bar on the bottom of the screen, which actually helps no one. I’m gonna listen to the radio. This lineup, wow: Neifi SS Enrique 2B Lee 1B … Continue reading “06/01 game notes”
Great. The White Sox game is running late, which was entirely likely from the start, and so we get no coverage till they’re done. But they’re putting a bar on the bottom of the screen, which actually helps no one. I’m gonna listen to the radio.
This lineup, wow:
Neifi SS
Enrique 2B
Lee 1B
Burnitz RF
Walker 2B
Patterson CF
Hollandsworth LF
Barrett C
Koronka P
Poor Jon. I imagine Enrique is batting 2nd instead of 8th out of rookie hazing.
I may be updating this post periodically.
Edit: Hollandsworth has had 3 SBs in the last 2 years. They must know something about Jason Phillips arm. Or are just goofy.
EDIT 2: HOLY CRAP NEIFI PEREZ THREE RUN HOME RUN!
6th on the season! He’s gotta to be violating some drug testing rules or something!
Edit 3: Derek Lowe gives up a three run home run to Neifi, throws a stool in anger after the inning, and cuts his hand in the process.
What a moron.
10:16: Koronka has a rep for a near-illegal pickoff move. Guess it was a bit too near this time.
10:24: He’s unravelling quickly here. Not good.
11:13: 5 IP, 3 R, 6 H, 3 BB – not super numbers, but certiantly acceptable given the situation. And the run support – D-Lee remains awesome and D-Low can go get stiches.
11:22 Joe Borowski was an great story for two years. Really starting to worry it won’t end well.
11:30 Look at the time. We’re in the top of the 7th. I hate West Coast Night Games.
It’s mostly Lowe’s fault. He got hurt, which killed some time, but he also worked slow. Good he’s gone.
12:08 Derek Lee is the greatest force of nature ever. EVER.
12:37 And that’s the sweep. Pat called it being a 6-3 out before the first pitch to Werth.
Six in a row now. Total steal of a win. Let’s see what they can take from the Padres.
