Eric SanInocencio contacted me to plug his baseball talk show, Baseball Digest Daily. I took a listen and it’s a good one.
When it comes to guests, BDD gets some pretty top draws. The show I listened to billed as the "Playoff Roundtable", featured ESPN’s Buster Olney as well as Chicago Tribune’s Mark Gonzalez and Adam Rubin from the NY Daily News.
This show (dated 9/27) is an apt show to start with as they preview the postseason. Give it a listen.
At Bleed Cubbie Blue, a fan posted a photo of the statue at the Daley Plaza.
It seems it has joined the Cubs in the midst of today’s Cubs Playoff Rally in downtown Chicago.
Dave Pinto does a good job of breaking down the Cubs and Dodgers statistically on Baseball Musings. Not too many surprises here:
Cubs come out on top offensively in pretty much every category. They were tops in the league in runs/game, OBA (Dusty who?), slugging and batting.
On the pitching side of things, it’s a little more competitive. Dem Bums’ ERA of 3.68 was tops in the NL in ERA though the Cubs weren’t too far behind with a 3.87 ERA which was good for 3rd in the league. Though the Cubs best the Dodgers (and the rest of the league) in K/9 IP, they don’t do as well in BB/9 IP in comparison.
The Cubs won the season series record but Pinto points out that the games and stats were close. Runs, homeruns and walks, were all pretty statistically even.
It was bound to show up sometime… Women Against Fantasy Sports web site.
Visit WAFS Unite to find out the” top ways to ruin his draft”, “You know his fantasy addiction has gone too far when…”and more outrageous stories of what some of the other ‘Widows’ have gone through! You won’t believe some of these stories!!! Come and share your own too…we love it!
Please.
A visit to this slick looking site is worth it just for the photos of these poor ladies supposedly being ignored by their guys.
And woe to the man in the forums who wrote to say his wife left him because of his involvement in a fantasy football league. He didn’t get any sympathy there.
These women came up with a creative idea for a web site and ran with it. As for how ignored they really are…. count me skeptical.
Things are so bad in the Seattle clubhouse there’s talk of player anger toward Ichiro.
…former manager John McLaren and his staff were forced to act this season after a player was overheard talking about Ichiro and wanting to "knock him out."
Apparently, some players had an issue with Ichiro’s "selfish" style of play.
Big Papi is selling his bed for charity.
The bid just reached the reserve at $10,000.
Sometimes MLB Advanced Media gets it. Sometimes they understand what is in their best interests.
This is one of those times.
Baseball fan Russ Gooberman created a mash-up video of Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton featuring his longest homerun from the All-Star Game Home Run Derby. He set it to some music and uploaded it to YouTube.
Gooberman says the very next day, MLB Advanced Media sent a trademark claim to YouTube and the video was taken down. YouTube sent him a notice that read:
"This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by MLB Advanced Media claiming that this material is infringing:"
Through YouTube, Gooberman responded to MLB Advanced Media. His counter-notification was very well written in my opinion. It says in part (you can read the whole bit at lessig.com):
"Under established Fair Use principles, if a work is considered transformative, it does not represent an infringement. This video in particular, is extremely transformative. First of all, it takes less than a minute of footage out of an over three hour exhibition. Secondly, the footage is edited differently than the original telecast. Thirdly, the entire soundtrack has been removed and replaced. Fourthly, the footage itself has been altered, added to, subtracted from, and has had the meaning changed altogether.
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This piece is fully non-commercial. The website behind the creation of this piece takes in zero revenue, and is a free entertainment service. Non-commercial use is another standard by which copyrighted material is allowable for re-use.
Again, this is only a small part of what Gooberman wrote and his whole piece is quite eloquent. Kudos to him for taking the time and effort to make his case.
As I said, this story does have a happy ending. In response to his notice and perhaps a second look at the video, not only did MLB Advanced Media rescind their takedown notice, they featured Gooberman’s mashup video on the official MLB Entertainment Blog.
Is MLB starting to see the light about intellectual property? Are they beginning to realize that posting one minute videos or photographs of MLB baseball does not hurt their bottom line but indeed increases fan interest in the game?
Probably not. But it’s a good step in the right direction and I heartily applaud MLBAM for seeing the light in this one case.
There may be hope yet.
Here’s the video in question. If you are Josh Hamilton fan, you’ll love it.
Never trust anyone in a green suit.
The culprit? Foil-wrapped hot dogs duct taped together left by the Phillie Phanatic and his crew. The ballpark dogs were part of a tv commercial featuring the Phillie mascot. The leftovers were left outside the ballpark and somehow looked like an exploding device to somebody therefore causing the ensuing panic. The bomb squad was called in and yes, the hot dogs were indeed blown up.
James "Mickey" Vernon, the firstbaseman who played for over 20 years in the 40’s and the 50’s passed away Wednesday.
From all accounts, I always considered Vernon to be one the best players who isn’t in the Hall of Fame.
That may change though. Vernon has been selected to the final ballot of the Veterans Committee for the 2008 class. The results of the ballot will be announced on December 8th.
Vernon also managed the Washington Senators, the team he played the most, between 1961-1963.
The Chicago Cubs defeated the Mets in New York tonight 9-6.
With the score tied 6-6, Lou Piniella brought in Bobby Howry. I groaned audibly. When Daniel Murphy led off the inning with a triple, the groans turned to plain ol’ swearing. My wife even commented, "is that the pitcher you don’t like, honey?" Yeah, that about sums it up.
But wait! This story has a happy ending. With no outs, a runner on third, and no real option left in the bullpen, it was left to Howry to get the job done. He struck out David Wright. Lou called for two successive intentional walks to Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran. A short hop to Ronnie Cedeno by Ryan Church looked like DP-fodder but Ronnie took the sure out at home preventing the winning run from scoring. Finally, the coup-d-grace, Howry struck out Ramon Castro to get out of the inning.
The Cubs went on to score three runs in the top of the tenth on a Ryan Theriot single, a Derrek Lee double and a Aramis Ramirez homerun. Kerry Wood came on to pitch a scoreless tenth to get his 34th save.
All good things but nothing impressed me more than Howry and how he got out of his 9th inning jam.
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