Fan: "Are you keeping track of pitches or just the outs?"
Jimbo: "Just outs."
Fan: "You know it really offends me that they put the scoring decisions on the scoreboard. It's like they're forcing us what to think. You know what I mean?"
Jimbo: "Um...no."
A comfortable win over the Cubs and not a single Cub fan within fifteen feet of me. Of all games.
Interesting that an error was later changed to a hit, then later a hit was changed to an error.
I checked the box score out of curiosity, because Chicago's fourth run could have been a case of the run unearned to the team but earned to the individual.
I do prefer the noon games, albeit only seven.
My brother lives in JAX and it's time for the eight-year itch. At least it won't be the season opener this time. According to him, it's Georgia v Florida in JAX the day before.
I had E8 written in my scorebook only to learn it was a triple.
That final out was hit so hard that I didn't see who caught it. Neither the person behind me. Had to leave that square blank.
Who's the batboy this season that is setting speed records running all over the field?
The WIAA Board of Ccontrol voted down 210-170 a proposal to have NIL for high school athletes. I would be 100% against this. Not surprised by the result, just shocked 170 voted in favor of it. Was the thought process to stay ahead of the courts?
OK, going off on a tangent here. Today, I was reading the current edition of Track and Field News. The next issue the NCAA may face in court is NCAA athletes in Olympic sports allowed to play in professional tournaments and allowed to keep prize money. For example, tennis and track.
According to my Excel sheet, Win Shares per series:
vs ARI
Braun 0.506
Morgan 0.304
Hairiston 0.120
Fielder 0.078
Hart -0.011
Lucroy -0.036
Betancourt -0.082
Weeks -0.244
vs STL
Hairiston 0.276
Braun 0.255
Betancourt 0.211
Hart 0.014
Lucroy -0.15
Fielder -0.079
Weeks -0.097
Morgan -0.104
Yuni had a fine LCS.
OFF:
P Kevin Herget, slected/DFA
P Devin Williams, 60-day IL
OF Garrett Mitchell, 60-day IL
P Vladimir Gutierrez, waiver claim/DFA
ON:
P Corbin Martin, waiver claim
P Jared Koenig, selected
P Tobias Myers, selected
The 40-man roster is full.
The bigger story is Copeland leaving the program. First I heard of this. The second year in a row the second best player leaves. One step forward, one step back. Surprsied Leah Williams is still around.
Interesting, Texas and New England had clouds. It was said that historically Texas would have the best odds of clear skies, upper Midwest in the spring not so. Can't always go with the odds.