Arizona via Slough

Dork and Mindy

2008-04-29T17:26:54Z

My new blog is updated here.

Get Back

2008-04-25T21:01:36Z

My new blog is updated here.

The Greatest Generation

2008-04-25T01:26:01Z

My new blog is updated here.

Hannity's America

2008-04-20T17:12:18Z

My new blog is updated here.

Did you see my Grandmother?

2008-04-18T20:23:29Z

My new blog is updated here.

Untitled.

2008-04-17T05:56:43Z

My new blog is updated here.

Commentator's Shame Revealed!

2008-04-16T17:47:29Z

My new blog is updated here.

Danish Teeth

2008-04-15T19:18:04Z

My new blog is updated here.

Viva Las Vegas

2008-04-14T17:25:38Z

My new blog is updated here.

Is The Pope A Catholic?

2008-04-13T23:35:31Z

My new blog is updated here.

Wham, Bam, Thank You MLBAM

2008-04-13T01:49:03Z

If, like me, you are delighted with the new MLBlogs set up you may be wondering if there is any way that you could send MLB Advanced Media (who run MLBlogs) some extra cash. I guess that you could argue that the DHL ads that have been running on all our sites is a kind of payment, but it's never really enough is it?

So why would a multi-million dollar organization make something free? I have 3 scenarios;

1) MLBlogs was losing money so they made it free, cut staffing to the bone and run it as a loss leader.

2) The more bloggers that register the more they can charge for advertising. Free means more blogs which means more ad revenue.

3) Out if the goodness of their hearts.

Whichever one it is, using this site recently has been the equivalent of going from an i-pod back to a walkman,so from today this blog will be moving to here. It's exciting because it's got links, and picture of Slough!

Dumb Britain

2008-04-10T14:50:59Z

Given that today is an off day for the D-Backs I will use this opportunity to spread peace and understanding between nations. The folks at Red State, Blue State (which I believe is owned and run by the Chinese government) are fond of posting this clip of the current U.S. United Nation's representative.

However the people of Britain are not without their own special views of the world, and here is a list of some of them. This doesn't include my own personal favorite which is;

Q: Which ancient civilization built the first roads in Britain?

A: Was it the apes?

So close!

Hell's Pitching

2008-04-09T16:59:35Z

For anybody who didn't see last night's games against the Dodgers let me tell you that it was quickfire duel that lasted less than 90 minutes. For anybody who did see it, can you let me know if it's over yet?

Fortunately I was able to distract myself with American Idol and watching Gordon Ramsay breach every employer/employee relationship law on the statutes.

Can I add that whilst we all wish Doug Davis the best in his upoming surgery, yesterday's TV coverage during the game was WAY over the top. I hate to seem like heartless ******* but there is nothing intrinsically courageous about having surgery for thyroid cancer, it's a necessity. Any courage will come if the operation is not successful and luckily that is highly unlikely.

My suspicion is that Doug would agree with this, and to effectively compare him (as was done last night) with a youngster who had undergone leukemia treatment is borderline offensive. Hopefully we can now move on and look forward to Doug pitching again in a couple of months.

Art For Art's Sake

2008-04-08T22:17:23Z

Yesterday found me working ith the acclaimed British Columbian artist Stan Douglas. I won't go into the details but suffice to say that my likeness will shortly tower over the people of Vancouver Kim Jong-il style.

Whilst I was suffering for someone else's art I was kept going by the prospect of watching the D-Back's home opener on my arrival home, and I was indeed richly rewarded with a feast of home runs against the hated Dodgers.

What this also brought home to me is what a good deal we laid back West Coast folks get with regard to baseball. Whilst much is often made of East Coast teams getting all the media coverage what rarely seems to get mentioned is that fans on this side of the continent get a veritable feast of baseball. Today alone I can watch games from 10am right through to at least 10pm whilst those poor saps in the East have to wait until after lunch to see the games begin and stay up until after midnight to see them finish.

Advantage West Coast.

ps since these posts now seem to take an inordinately long time to be published by MLBlogs I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my readers a Happy Christmas

The End Of The World Is Nigh

2008-04-05T14:27:17Z

It must be, because yesterday the Diamondbacks were involved in a game that wasn't close. This is traditionally seen as the first sign of the Apocalypse (the second sign is Paula Abdul forming a coherent sentence). But death and destruction is a small price to pay for a convincing win over division rivals.

Is it too early to be talking about Micah Owing's as a Cy Young candidate? (that's my submission for the MLB Homepage). He was certainly helped out yesterday by a Rockie's team who were swinging at anything (Tulowitski struck out in the third before Owing's had even got to the mound), but either way the hitters were patient and actually managed to drive in some runs, and if we win one of the next two then it will have been a decent road trip, if we win both it will have been a good one.

On the subject of the Rockies, yesterday they looked like a team who were burdened by the achievments of last year, and this can't be improved by the fact that they are stringing out the presentations over the three game series (Pennant tonight, Championship rings on Sunday) if I were Clint Hurdle I would want this all over with and get my team concentrating on the here and now (not to mention that it's a fantastic way to fire up the Arizona players).

Still if it works for us then it's all good.