News and Notes

Well, another beautiful day in Colorado. Mostly sunny and 65 degrees, no wind. But no one reads this to hear my weather report. I'm just thinking of the weather though, in listening to my Raiders play in Doane. It sounds like Doane has a new complex though, becuase what I remember most from playing at Doane was playing at the fairgrounds, with the drunk hecklers down the 3rd baseline. And when I say playing, I mean I actually played that game...I think the score was 19-3 or something in the 5th, so I saw my inning of action. Anyways, back to the weather...the announcer on the internet feed said the wind was taking control of the game a little.

You know, as beautiful as it is out here, there's not alot to do without someone to do it with. So...all you people who want my nice weather, take it...just trade with me for a player to be named sooner than later.

Well, my feed to the baseball game was cut off with Doane leading my boys 4-2 in the bottom of the 2nd. Heits just stole 2nd, so you know the wind was blowing...

Anyways, I had another chat with both Timothy Christian and DeMotte Christian yesterday, and we worked it out so that we will fly in Monday night, check out and interview with DeMotte on Tuesday, then drive to Timothy Christian Wednesday morning and see the school/interview during the day, and then fly back out late Wednesday afternoon. The 2nd biggest upside of it all (besides being able to see Linds in a little over a week)...they're paying for us to rent a car...LOOK OUT FORD FOCUS!!

Well, I do have to add my 2 cents about the Twins in here...

-Torii Hunter was interviewed last week about his time with the Twins, and he said that now he wasn't part of the organization anymore, he did have one criticism. It was that he was disappointed that the Twins didn't go with Denard Span to fill the CF opening that he had left. Maybe the mentor knows something that we all don't? Maybe he should be given a shot in the majors. After all, he did hit .282 this spring, compared to .267 for Gomez. Span's AB/K ratio was almost twice as good as the free-swinging Gomez. Oh, and for Pete's sake, if Nick Punto and his .125 AVG this spring can make the team...oh forget it, I'm done.

-So Livan Hernandez was named the Opening Day starter for the Twins. It marks the first time that a pitcher besides one with the last name of Santana or Radke will take the hill on the opener since Bob Tewksbury opened against Toronto in 1998, which resulted in a 3-2 loss...Twins were 6-3 in openers during the Radke/Santana era.

-One more fun fact about Opening Day...there will be 6 new faces in the Starting Lineup, with only 3 starters returning from last year's lineup (Mauer, Morneau, Cuddyer). Those gone include Castillo, Bartlett, White, Hunter, and Cirillo. Punto started at 3rd last year, but with the aquisition of Mike Lamb, won't make the starting lineup.

So long everybody...