and not one mention of my fantasy teams
there's been a lot of baseball in the ol' Inbox recently:
first, Marc sent around the link to a hilarious Lego reenactment of Tuesday night's Twins-Tigers game from Batgirl.
then Batgirl linked to this great article about flaky Twins outfielder Lew Ford. i had no idea the Red Sox had originally drafted him. i gotta say that between this, Cuddyer's Diary (highight: Mike and Doug Mientkiewicz spend an off day at a Cleveland mall), the new turf and the general likeability of the whole team, it's almost enough to make me a Twins fan. then i remember that Carl Pohlad still owns the team and would have happily pocketed the contraction payout to wipe the team out of existence. plus they have two World Series titles in the past 17 years so screw that.
courtesy of Dan comes the story of one man's obsession with collecting baseballs from major league stadiums. he has over 2100 now and even wrote a book a few years back called How to Snag Major League Baseballs. but the part that caught my eye was this paragraph:
While he's not working or trolling for baseballs, he's writing another baseball book. He also holds the record high score in a 1980s-era video game called Arkanoid, he's an expert Scrabble player and he has assembled a 130-pound rubber band ball.
truly a man of letters! and the official brother of t.s.o.a. and i were Arkanoid crazy back in the original Nintendo days so i was happy to find that i could download Arkanoid 4000 for free. the 1 user comment left about the game so far is pretty priceless.
of course the big story coming up is the second Red Sox-Yankees showdown of the year, the Sox having taken 3 of 4 games last wekeend. the Yanks are still reeling despite two straight wins and another series loss to the Sox in April might be enough the send Steinbrenner into coronary country. Pedro will be pitching on Sunday (against whom is TBD) and i'd give odds that he lowers his 3.86 ERA before the day is over. you gotta root for a guy like Bubba Crosby though, pinstripes or no (especially because his playing time should be inversely proportional to the Yankees success). i've got a real soft spot for guys like that.