Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 22, 2004
In for the vacationing David Pinto

Hi everybody! My name is Jim Storer, and as the author of this blog has already noted, he and I have been the best of friends since our freshman year in college, the year that the Yankees' shortstop officially changed his name to Bucky "Bleeping" Dent in Boston. We watched The Game on tv together since, to listen to multitudinous story-tellers, the Red Sox must have sold about 3 million tickets to that one game, based upon the number of people who claim to have been there!

I'll be guest blogging (sorry but I still think"blog" is an ugly word, much like "mucilage" or "foment", and somehow it's even worse as a verb) while Dave is away. I am flattered to have this opportunity and certainly won't be able to match his volume of material, and I can only aspire to match his standard of excellence in content.

Now that I've finished sucking up to him, on to the business at hand. My perspective about most baseball issues is very similar to Dave's, because he's right almost all the time. I'm a huge fan of the minor leagues and the independent leagues and enjoy studying the legal and economic aspects of the game. (I am an attorney in private practice). Turn-offs include the Designated Hitter Rule, Bud Selig and artificial turf.

This week I'll be prattling on about some strange official scoring decisions, the evolution of relief pitching and why Larry Bowa should have been fired a long time ago.

One quickie just to get started: in yesterday's 12-inning affair with BALCO Barry and the Giants, the Mets won on a fly ball that RF Dustan (Don't call me "Dustin") Mohr just plain dropped. Ouch, poor guy. In what had to be one of the ugliest games ever, the teams combined for 16 walks, 3 errors and a record-setting 10 double-plays. Interesting...Kaz Matsui's been taking a lot of heat in the greater New York metropolitan area for his supposed defensive shortcomings - yesterday Wilson Delgado played the entire game at short and the Mets turned 4 DP's...

Jim


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Comments

Welcome, Jim! Regarding Bowa, you'll be preaching to the choir for a lot of us, but I look forward to reading nonetheless.

Posted by: Tom at August 23, 2004 12:12 PM

hi jim!!


ooooooooooooh,we have the same turn-offs.

but about that Game, i do believe your memory is a little off. Bucky did NOT change his name. The new initial was thoughtfully donated by the members of the Nation in ungrateful remembrance of keeping the curse alive. now i must admit that the Game happened before i was born, but i have heard about it ad-barfium and seem to remember the presentation ceremony from espn classic.....

Posted by: lisa gray at August 24, 2004 12:29 AM