Aloha

by BubbaFan on Nov 16, 2008 11:55 PM EST Comment 15 comments

Hawaii Winter Baseball ended today, with a championship game between the Waikiki BeachBoys and the West Oahu CaneFires. The BeachBoys prevailed, 5-1.

The hero of the game was Giants prospect Buster Posey. (Good grief. I think that might be an even cooler baseball name than "Bubba Crosby.")

Yonder Alonso played first base and batted third. He was 0-2 with two walks.

He did pretty well in Hawaii:

 AVG	 OBP	 SLG	 OPS
.308	.419	.510	.929

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Todd Frazier

didn’t do too bad himself, hitting .295/.375/.547.

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by dougdirt on Nov 17, 2008 12:17 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

and his numbers were better before the concussion

Someone better be monitoring him for Farney-isms.

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by Slyde on Nov 17, 2008 8:46 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

What on Earth

is a CaneFire?

This place is like a sexy preschool.

by Gray on Nov 17, 2008 11:45 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

It's how you make cane sugar

See?

by Brendanukkah on Nov 17, 2008 11:57 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

My great-grandmother used to live in Ewa, near the sugar plantation. They would intentionally burn the cane fields, and it was nasty. It smelled like burnt sugar, and a fine black soot would get all over everything.

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by BubbaFan on Nov 17, 2008 5:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Alonso was named to the All League Team

No word on whether he gets a ribbon or a trophy. (via CTR)

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by Slyde on Nov 17, 2008 3:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs