As I've been mentioning on my Twitter lately, I'm working on a term paper on Eddie Plank, he of the 326 career wins (third all-time for a LHP) and 2.35 career ERA. He's been keeping me quite busy today, and I have to say I'm actually enjoying it.

Is anybody else here into deadball? You know, Philadelphia A's and St. Louis Browns and New York ( Read more... )

Okay, so Oofuri got even more of my money today. A friend of mine and I went to Kinokuniya today, and they had volume ten, which made me a happy puppy already. ...and then I discovered that they also had something I had seen on eBay a few nights before...the first animation file book. There are plenty of pictures, of course:


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Oh, how could I miss this? Yesterday was PawSox Media Day! And ProJo has, of course, come up with some photos of the boys being stupid. I have to post two of them, because they're epic - you can look through the rest here.


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So apparently I missed something last night when I was watching the Nationals open up their lovely new ballpark.

But don't worry - other people caught it. Supposedly the ESPN commentators said something to the effect that they aren't counting the two games we played against the A's as real Opening Day games because we, well, didn't play them in ( Read more... )

One more.

I almost wonder if I am crazier than Julian Tavarez.

...no, I'm not. I shouldn't delude myself.

Brandon is in the lineup again today. Jacoby has been switched out with Coco for now.

Top of the First:

And Dustin is here to lead off once again! Except today, instead of singling, he does something he never does - strikes out. In my happy little ( Read more... )

YAY! Here we go! I normally don't live-blog without Gameday (I can keep up with that more easily), but this is Opening Day. In Tokyo, Japan. It's sort of...mandatory this time around.

Only downside to this game being on TV? It's the day they chose to make my favorite prospect in the whole world temporarily inactive. Maybe I'll see civilian Jed in ( Read more... )

Back in Pennsylvania. I won't have to do that crazy drive again until May 9th, when I go home for the summer. I've done it so many times in the past month that I'm starting to feel like Jed's dad. And no, not in a creepy way: Jed has some good stories about his father's legendary driving prowess, like the one when Dan drove 15 straight hours ( Read more... )

Reason number one Justin Masterson should be on that flight: Jed Lowrie cannot Rick Roll the entire team by himself, even if he does find a way to hack the airplane's entertainment system so that little Ricks appear on every television screen. It's just something they have to do together.

Okay, so somehow I survived that drive again. It's certainly ( Read more... )

So it seems we've hit a bit of a snag with this trip to Japan. I'm sure everyone knows what's going on right now, so I won't get into explaining it all over again. I have heard that the A's, too, are joining in on the fun.

Here, Tek can explain it better than I can: three choice quotes from our captain.

“It’s uncomfortable, but the principle is the ( Read more... )

You know what? I noticed that as soon as I mentioned Jim Viox by name, Dustin Pedroia took a hiatus from hitting and spent a few days with an average of .313. He's snapped out of that, though - with one game. You see, when you score four runs in a game and go 3-for-5 with two doubles and a home run over the Monster, your average goes up.

This one ( Read more... )