Miss your Flight?

[myownrendition.livejournal.com]

I flew from Indy to Maryland today with a layover in Detroit. Marcus Thames was on my flight.

:)


The end.


(p.s. I will be at tonight's game at Camden Yards)

Pudge back to the Marlins?

[buckeyebrain.livejournal.com]

So apparently, mlb.com has a video clip with the headline of some guy talking about Ivan Rodriguez going back to Florida. Since mlb.com (like pretty much every other video site in the world) is inaccessible, can some kind soul fill me in?

Team USA

[beatlesjill79.livejournal.com]

Does the US have a baseball team playing in the olyimpics this year?
I am guessing they do, seeing as Mike Hessman is going to Beijing.

My brother Jesse lied to me!
(or rather, he didn't know)

(Glad to have Inge and Maggs back)

the river thames has a scary amount of power

[twoseamfastball.livejournal.com]

I actually mentioned this in my latest blog post, but I wanted to bring it up separately over here because the more I think about it the more I realize how COMPLETELY FUCKING CRAZYPANTS it is and I want you all to enjoy the complete fucking crazypantsness with me.

So far this season, 35% of all of Marcus Thames' hits have been homeruns.

This is... this is MIND-BOGGLINGLY CRAZYPANTS. Like, the pants are seriously deranged.

For comparison, so that you may see how freakish Marcus is, look at these other cats:

16% of Miguel Cabrera's total hits are homeruns.
12% of Curtis Granderson's total hits are homeruns.
9% of Carlos Guillen's total hits are homeruns.
13% of Magglio Ordonez's total hits are homeruns.
3% of Placido Polanco's total hits are homeruns (!!).
5% of Pudge Rodriguez's total hits are homeruns (I just vomited in my mouth a little).
14% of Gary Sheffield's total hits are homeruns.

I would give you Edgar Renteria's percentage but I'm pretty sure it's, like, negative. Like a black hole of power hitting.

The current AL leader in tha 4 baggahs, Grady Sizemore (sidenote: league homerun leader, Grady Sizemore, wtf?), sends off 23% of his total hits for homeruns.

Do you see why that 35% is so ricockulous? It is kind of like The River Thames hits homeruns, or does not hit at all.

And that, my feline friends, is CRAZYPANTS.

(crazypaaaaaants!)