it made me smile to see Votto’s name in Sarasota’s lineup tonight.

and last in the NL East. But they’re still beating the Yankees. Corey Patterson and all. (And yes, I think he is averaging 2 pitches per at-bat.)

And somebody tell that Janish kid to quit hiding from Dusty.

He was visible in this photo from this year’s Rice baseball media guide:

That’s him in the second row on the left, on the end.

He didn’t rate a photo in the alumni section, though there was a photo of him in his Reds uniform in the “pipeline to the pros” section.

Exempted Village School district, that is.
-j

This is why we pay you the big bucks.

Two HRs given up.

Glad to see JV out on the field. Thanks for the pic Charlie Scrabbles. He’s looking good. With all that talk about weight loss in the paper I didn’t know what to expect (to be honest, I was expecting Corey Feldman in the Goonies—ok not really but for some reason JV reminds me of CF—a much more attractive CF). Ok that parenthetical was too long.

Glad to hear the Cards are in FAIL mode lol.

Poodle

What now for fun? Anyone playing on TV?

Oh, and I got to experience “ultra-aggressive dad” at the boy’s knothole game tonight, good times. I wanted so badly to kick him in the balls hard enough that his grandkids would limp. It’s eight year olds dude, settle down.

Yep the angry parent…what a drag these people are…but you I would tell all parents at the beginning of the season if you don’t like how I coach…don’t bitch or whine, come to all of my practices and see what we are trying to accomplish..if you can help all the better…otherwise keep your mouth shut. You can only yell supportive things to ALL the players not just yours and lay off the refs…now if you can’t do this then you child will not be allowed to play. Period.

You got a problem we’ll work it out…and we did..I’d always sit them down and ask them a bunch of questions about the rules (esp. soccer) and usually they only had half baked ideas of what the game was ultimately about. This would shift the enmphasisi to talking about learning the game and skill enhancement as a way to improve and to win, And we won a fuck of a lot games.

 Most parents responded quite well to my approach and helped keep those parents who would occasionally lose it, in line.

I mean the game is all about the kids, having fun, learning and using all kinds of skills and also learning how to really work hard individually and as a group… the girl that made the assist pass usually got more praise than the one who drilled it in…

You know its kind of that way here at RR….just hitting the ball of the tee

I was gonna go to the Bunker Hill Memorial, but it didn’t really seem worth the time. Ours is bigger!

I may or may not be here for the game thread tomorrow. If not burn someone’s yard in my honor please.

Paul Janish moves from the bench to the showers."

creak

Our boy Willie, leadoff hitter extrodinare, has now gone 48 PA and reached base once.

Free Drew Stubbs!