I found out today that a graduate student in my building plays on a barnstorming baseball team called the Jitterbugs. 

From the Jitterbugs web page:

The Jitterbugs are a barnstorming baseball team, the brainchild of Murdock native Lucas Stock, composed of players from all across Nebraska. In its whirlwind season, the team is playing more than a dozen games against town and Legion teams in parks as far east as the Missouri and as far west as the Sandhills. Following in the footsteps of Lucas’s uncles, who traveled the state playing baseball over half a century ago, the Jitterbugs are dedicated to reviving the fun and community of small town baseball.

Check out their web page.  Yes, it has photos and stats but the blog entries are well written. 

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Tom Haudricourt from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel lists ten reasons why the Brewers lost the NL Central championship. 

Not surprisingly, he notes the starting pitching, bullpen, as well as key players not coming through.  It is notable that Yost’s name is barely mentioned in the article. 

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My son was reading about how engineers implode buildings.  I suggested that he do a search on the web for some videos of large buildings being imploded.  The first search result on the list was the Seattle Kingdome which was destroyed in 2000. 

Some facts on the Kingdome here. 

Anyway, wow!  What a sight!

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(Photo: Chris Usher, TIME)

Hey look, Karl Rove’s a Twin fan now.  Almost makes me want to root for the Sox. 

I said ALMOST.

Rove was showing the Twinkie colors while in Minneapolis.

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Many jokes take place about the umps being blind… but the players??

Well, that’s the case with the 2007 National Beep Baseball Association which is now holding its World Series.  The series takes place in Rochester, MN.

See a slideshow of photos of some action courtesy of Chicago Public Radio. 

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The Detroit Free Press has Tigers baseball cards available for download. You can view and print them out with Adobe Reader. Alas, they are one-sided. It would be neat if they had back sides with stats and whatever.

You can access them here. I love the one of Leyland who is taking a swing… with a bat, I mean.

(hat tip, Baseball Musings)

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Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN makes his case for putting these two on the rosters.

For what it’s worth, I didn’t think Ripken belonged in ‘01 so his comparison doesn’t hold water with me.

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The XM Satellite Radio (whatever) All-Star Futures Game has announced the rosters for the game.

US roster

World Roster

The game is set for 1pm at July 8.

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University of Illinois physicist Alan Nathan was interviewed by USAToday on the effects of the gyroball.

“What makes Matsuzaka so effective is that he has an arsenal of pitches,” Nathan says. “The gyroball is just one more of his tools, and he doesn’t actually need to throw it. He just has to have the batter think he might.”

 

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Our futile but fun attempt at predicting this season’s outcomes

View our predictions

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